| Description |
xi, 250 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Theory in environmental ethics -- Bridge over troubled waters : embattled community in the Everglades -- For ecological health or profit? The POPs elimination treaty -- Heart thieves : preserving endangered ecosystems or endangered cultures in Madagascar -- Must Java have no forests? Nature preserves and human population pressures -- Buried alive : future generations and permanent underground disposal of nuclear waste -- Ecological quick fixes? Restoring degraded coral reefs -- River run or river ruined : hydropower or free-flowing rivers? -- Nature creates deserts, too : addressing desertification in China. |
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Rewilding : restoration of degraded ecosystems -- Improving on natural variation? Genetically modified foods -- Nature red in tooth, claw, and bullet : hunting and human presence in nature -- Understanding xenotransplants : cross-breeding humans or advanced domestication of animals? |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics -- Case studies.
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Environmental sciences -- Philosophy -- Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Huchingson, James Edward, 1940-
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| ISBN |
0878401342 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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