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  • The Land Is Our Community

    Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium

    by Roberta L. Millstein ...
    A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold's vision for human interaction with the environment.Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In a classic essay, published posthumously in A Sand County Almanac, Leopold advocated for an expansion of our ethical ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics

    Edited by Hsiang-Ke Chao, Szu-Ting Chen, Roberta L. Millstein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume addresses fundamental issues in the philosophy of science in the context of two most intriguing fields: biology and economics. Written by authorities and experts in the philosophy of biology and economics, Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics provides a structured study of the concepts of mechanism and causality in these disciplines and draws careful juxtapositions between ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

    by Christine Webb ...
    **A New York Times’s Notable Book of 2025An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves**Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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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

    $48.39 CAD

  • 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

    $50.99 CAD

  • Reshaping Environments

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World

    Edited by Helena Bender ...
    Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the diverse influences humans have upon the natural environment. This interdisciplinary approach presents multifaceted responses for complex environmental ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change

    Human Virtues of the Future

    Edited by Allen Thompson, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer ...
    An analytically precise and theoretically probing exploration of the challenge to our values and virtues posed by climate change.Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective, exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Underflows

    Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice

    by Cleo Wölfle Hazard ...
    Series series Feminist Technosciences
    Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wölfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice, sovereignty, and dynamism. At the intersection of river sciences, queer and trans theory, and environmental justice, Underflows explores river cultures and politics at five ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Character and Environment

    A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics

    by Ronald Sandler ...
    Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics. Although environmental ethicists often employ virtue-oriented evaluation (such as respect, care, and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Ignoring Nature No More

    The Case for Compassionate Conservation

    Edited by Marc Bekoff ...
    From the coauthor—with Jane Goodall—of The Ten Trusts , "a must-read for every student of zoology, ecology, environmental ethics, and conservation biology" (Michael Charles Tobias, coauthor of The Metaphysics of Protection ).For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive speci... ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fall of the Wild

    Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation

    by Ben A. Minteer ...
    The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger—the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, wildlife advocates have become captivated by a narrative of heroic conservation efforts. A range of technological and policy strategies, from the traditional, such as ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • A Different Kind of Animal

    How Culture Transformed Our Species

    by Robert Boyd ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD