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Philosophy applied to environmental issues

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Author:   Donald Scherer ,  Donald Scherer
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780877227472

ISBN 10:   0877227470
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   06 December 1990
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Molding of Norms and Environments Donald Scherer 2. On the Rights of Future Generations Ernest Partridge 3. Managing the Future: Public Policy, Scientific Uncertainty, and Global Warming Dale Jamieson 4. Models, Scientific Method, and Environmental Ethics Kristine Shader-Frechette 5. Can Today's International System Handle Transboundary Environmental Problems? Daniel Barstow Magraw and James W. Nickel 6. Takings, Just Compensation, and the Environment Murk Sagoff 7. The Consequences of My Action, Your Action, and the Company's Action Burt Gruzalski 8. Two Types of Cost-Benefit Analysis Alan Gewirth About the Contributors Index

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This book contains admirable examples of applied philosophy with solid conceptual analysis of critical social and legal issues... The articles are accessible to an educated layman [and]...suitable for use in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental philosophy, law, political theory, and --to a lesser degree--economics and history. Select essays can be read profitably by those with interests in environmental policy making, consulting, interpretation, and enforcement. --Environmental History Review The essays in Donald Scherer's Upstream/Downstream offer serious readers more to get their teeth into... [Scherer] deserves congratulation for welding his authors' pieces into a stimulating and satisfying whole...written in accessible, reasonably non-technical language. --Environmental Values

The essays in Donald Scherer's Upstream/Downstream offer serious readers more to get their teeth into.... [Scherer] deserves congratulation for welding his authors' pieces into a stimulating and satisfying whole...written in accessible, reasonably non-technical language. -Environmental Values This book contains admirable examples of applied philosophy with solid conceptual analysis of critical social and legal issues.... The articles are accessible to an educated layman [and]...suitable for use in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental philosophy, law, political theory, and -to a lesser degree-economics and history. Select essays can be read profitably by those with interests in environmental policy making, consulting, interpretation, and enforcement. -Environmental History Review

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Donald Scherer is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.

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