This text and sourcebook crosses disciplinary boundaries and attends seriously to economic reasoning and its implications for environmental policy issues while taking a broad view of questions of ethics. It is appropriate and valuable not only for philosophy and environmental science students but also for students of economics, biology, engineering, and public policy.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 World scientists? - warning to humanity. Part 2 An introduction to ethical theory: moral argument and ethical theory; influential ideas and theories. Part 3 Religious and cultural perspectives: the historic roots of our ecological crisis, Lynn White Jr; for God so loved the world, Andrew Linzey; everyone needs a stone, Nina Rosenstand; can we complete Darwin's revolution?, Stephen Jay Gould. Part 3 The other animals: good natured, Frans de Waal; animal liberation, Peter Singer; the case for animal rights, Tom Regan; interspecific justice, Donald VanDeVeer; the prospect for consensus and convergence in the animal-rights debate, Gary Varner; the little things that run the world, E.O. Wilson; sidelight - parachuting cats and interconnectedness. Part 4 Constructing an environmental ethic: on being morally considerable, Kenneth Goodpaster; should trees have standing?, Christopher Stone; the ethics of respect for nature, Paul Taylor; sidelight - obstacles to reasoned discussion; the land ethic, Aldo Leopold; the conceptual foundations of the land ethic, J. Baird Callicott; integration or reduction - two approaches to environmental values, Bryan Norton; deep ecology, Bill Devall and George Sessions; self-realization - an ecological approach to being in the world, Arne Naess; will ecology become "the dismal science"?, Murray Bookchin; sidelight - do what's natural, you say?; nature, self and gender - feminism, environmental philosophy, and the critique of rationalism, Val Plumwood; the power and promise of ecological feminism - development, ecology and women, Karen J. Warren; development, ecology and women, Vandana Shiva; how feminist ecofeminism, Victoria Davion; the ethical basis of the economic view of the environment, A. Myrick Freeman III; at the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or why political questions are not all economic, Mark Sagoff; cost-benefit analysis - an ethical critique, Stephen Kelman; cost-benefit analysis defended, Herman B. Leonard and Richard J. Zeckhauser; sidelight - cost-benefit analysis - a tool for all seasons?; Earth in the balance sheet, Robert Reptetto; ethics, science and environmental regulation, Donald A. Brown; the tragedy of the commons, Garrett Hardin; the tragedy of enclosure, George Monbiot; the creation of property, John Locke; property rights in natural resources, Kristin Shrader-Frechette; takings, just compensation, and the environment, Mark Sagoff; the Rio Declaration; on population, Thomas Malthus; sidelight - if Earth could speak; lifeboat ethics, Garrett Hardin; can the supply of resources really be infinite? - yes!, Julian Simon.