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  • Integral Ecology for a More Sustainable World

    Dialogues with Laudato Si'

    by Matthew Eaton, Anne Marie Dalton, Timothy Harvie, Christopher Hrynkow, Peter McGrail, Dennis O’Hara, Neil Ormerod, Michael Taylor Ross0, Stephen Scharper1, Nicholas Smith2, Laura Stivers3, Kate Ward4, Andrew Warmback5, Matthew Philipp Whelan6, Brianne Bell Jacobs7, Charles Camosy Charles Camosy, Fordham University8, Guy Consolmagno9, John F. Haught, Georgetown University0, Gerard Mannion1, Dawn M. Nothwehr2, Susan Rakoczy3, Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson4, Christopher P. Vogt5 ...
    Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Natural City

    Re-envisioning the Built Environment

    Edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Stephen Bede Scharper ...
    Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities - human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

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  • The Great Work

    Our Way into the Future

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    Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, ... Read more

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  • Environmental Ethics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robin Attfield ...
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    Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are becoming increasingly important. In this Very Short Introduction Robin Attfield traces the ... Read more

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  • Matters of Care

    Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds

    by María Puig de la Bellacasa ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Grow Small, Think Beautiful

    Ideas for a Sustainable World from Schumacher College

    Edited by Stephen Harding ...
    Schumacher College, based near Totnes in Devon, England, opened its doors in the early 1990s and is now an internationally-renowned centre for transformative learning on all aspects of sustainable living. James Lovelock led the first course on Gaia theory. A host of visionary thinkers has followed, including mathematician and biologist Brian Goodwin, who died in 2009. This book is a realisation of ... Read more

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  • Water Ethics

    Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals

    Edited by Jeremy J. Schmidt, Peter G. Brown, Dr. ...
    Having manipulated water for irrigation, energy, and burgeoning urban centers, humans are facing the reality that although fresh water is renewable, it is as finite as any other resource. Countries, states, and cities are now scrambling to develop an intelligent, well-informed approach to mitigate the growing global water crisis. Water Ethics is based on the belief that responding to contemporary ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Integral Ecology

    Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World

    by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens Ph.D., Michael E. Zimmerman Ph.D. ...
    Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the natural environment. With more than two hundred distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural world—and with scientists, economists, ethicists, activists, philosophers, and others often taking completely different stances on the issues—how can we come to agreement to solve our toughest environmental problems?In response to this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Exploring Wild Law

    The philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence

    Edited by Peter Burdon ...
    Wild law is a groundbreaking approach to law that stresses human dependence on nature. For the first time, this volume brings together voices from the leading proponents of wild law around the world. It introduces readers to the idea of wild law and considers its relationship to environmental law, the rights of nature, science, religion, property law and international governance. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Radical Ecology

    The Search for a Livable World

    by Carolyn Merchant ...
    Series series Revolutionary Thought and Radical Movements
    This is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examines the ways that radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life on this planet. It features a new Introduction from the author, a thorough updating of chapters, and two entirely new chapters on recent Global Movements ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

    by Allen Thompson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet. Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the basic conditions ... Read more

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  • The People, Place, and Space Reader

    Edited by Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, Susan Saegert ...
    The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments ... Read more

    $115.99 USD