An integrated approach to ethics that covers interhuman ethics, the ethics of the natural environment (including animals), and the ethics of the built environment, and enables us to offer sensible and defensible answers to the widest possible range of eth.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our understanding…
For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific…
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enli…
"Traces six contradictory American ideologies of nature from their emergence in the late eighteenth century to the present to explore how inconsistent conceptions of nature lead to conflict"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Examination of the relationships among conservation, restoration, novel ecosystems, collective trauma, and memorialization as illustrated by the Green Belt between the former East and West Germanies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Revised papers presented at a series of lectures, during the 1986-87 academic year. Organized by the Program for Developmental Research, University of Maryland, College Park."A Bradford book."Errata slip inserted.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book.""Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should 'carve nature at its joints.' But is nature really 'jointed'? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issue…
Is this the Anthropocene? The age in which humans have become a geological force, leaving indelible signs of their activities on the earth. The narrative of the Anthropocene so far is characterized by extremes, emergencies, and exceptions-a tale of apocalypse by our own hands. The sense of ongoing crisis emboldens policy and governance responses that challenge established systems of sovereignty…
Empirical literature in disciplines ranging from behavioural genetics to economics shows that in virtually every aspect of life the outcomes of children are correlated to a greater or lesser extent with the outcomes of their parents. Beenstock offers theoretical and methodological tools for understanding these correlations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.