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Description: |
xviii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: The global environmental deficit / F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert -- Biodiversity, prosperity, and value / Edward O. Wilson -- Biological diversity and global security / Norman Myers -- The management of diversity : a conservation paradox / David Ehrenfeld -- Nature as the measure for a sustainable agriculture / Wes Jackson -- The dimensions of the pesticide question / David Pimentel -- Environmental ethics : values in and duties to the natural world / Holmes Rolston III -- The disposable society / Paul H. Connett -- Groundwater : the buried life / William Goldfarb -- Toxic winds : whose responsibility? / Gene E. Likens -- Economics, ecology, and ethics : mending the broken circle for tropical forests / Malcolm Gillis -- Incentives for conservation / William A. Butler -- Chemical prospecting : a proposal for action / Thomas Eisner -- Closing the circle : weaving strands among ecology, economics, and ethics / Stephen R. Kellert and F. Herbert Bormann. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: The 12 essays in this volume, originally delivered as lectures at Yale in 1989, approach environmental degradation from a unified ecological, economic, and ethical perspective. The contributors agree that the global environmental crisis is the result of an ethical position that sees only immediate instrumental value in nature, and of policies that sacrifice long-range economic and ecological stability for short-term gain. Now we are faced with seemingly impossible choices, such as forests or economic viability, pollution or recession. The collection includes sections on species diversity, agriculture, environmental values, pollution, and market mechanisms. The authors address ecological problems on a global scale, and make specific and practical proposals for changes that would mend the broken circle of ecology, economics, and ethics. ISBN 0-300-04976-5: $26.50. |