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 Books

• Aldo Leopold. A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970 [1949].
• John B. Cobb, Jr. Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology. Beverley Hills: Bruce, 1972.
• William T. Blackstone, ed. Philosophy and Environmental Crisis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1972.
• John Passmore. Man's Responsibility for Nature: Ecological Problems and Western Traditions. New York: Scribner's, 1974; 2ded., London: Duckworth, 1980.
• Christopher Stone. Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects. Los Altos, Calif.: William Kaufmann,1974.
• Peter Singer. Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals. New York: New York Review/Random House, 1975.
• Tom Regan and Peter Singer, eds. Animal Rights and Human Obligations. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1976; 2d ed., 1989.
• R. I. Sikora and Brian Berry, eds. Obligations to Future Generations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977.
• Max Oelschlaeger. The Environmental Imperative: A Socio-EconomicPerspective. Washington: University Press of America, 1977.
• Susan L. Flader. Thinking Like A Mountain: Aldo Leopold andthe Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978 (Universityof Missouri Press, 1974).
• K. E. Goodpaster and K. M. Sayer, eds. Ethics and Problemsof the 21st Century. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,1979.
• K. S. Shrader-Frechette. Nuclear Power and Public Policy. Dordrecht/Boston:D. Reidel, 1980.
• Don Mannison, Michael McRobbie, and Richard Routley, eds. EnvironmentalPhilosophy. Canberra: Australian National University, 1980.
• Ian G. Barbour. Technology, Environment, and Human Values. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1980.
• Ernest Partridge, ed. Responsibilities to Future Generations. Buffalo: Prometheus, 1981.
• Stephen Kelman. What Price Incentives?: Economists and the Environment. Boston: Auburn House, 1981.
• Henryk Skolimowski. Eco-Philosophy: Designing New Tactics for Living. London and New Hampshire: Marion Boyars, 1981.
• Charles Birch and John B. Cobb, Jr. The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981; 2d ed., Denton, Tex.: Environmental Ethics Books,1990.
• K. S. Shrader-Frechette. Environmental Ethics. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Boxwood Press, 1981.
• Robert C. Schultz and J. Donald Hughes, eds. Ecological Consciousness. Washington, D.C.: University of America Press, 1981.
• C. Dyke. Philosophy of Economics. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall,1981.
• John A. Livingston. The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981.
• Donald Scherer and Thomas Attig, eds. Ethics and the Environment. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
• Robin Attfield. The Ethics of Environmental Concern. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
• Mary Midgley. Animals and Why They Matter. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.
• Tom Regan. The Case for Animal Rights. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983.
• Robert Elliott and Arran Gare, eds. Environmental Philosophy. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press,1983.
• Michael Tobias, ed. Deep Ecology. San Diego: Avant Books, 1985.
• Bill Devall and George Sessions. Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1985.
• Michael Allen Fox and Leo Groarke, eds. Nuclear War: Philosophical Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, 1985.
• Neil Evernden. The Natural Alien. Toronto: University of TorontoPress, 1985.
• Holmes Rolston, III. Philosophy Gone Wild: Essays in Environmental Ethics. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1986.
• John Howell, ed. Environment and Ethics: A New Zealand Contribution. Lincoln College and University of Canterbury, Centre for Resource Management Special Publication No. 3, 1986.
• Tom Regan, ed. Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy. 2d ed. New York: Random House, 1980,1986.
• Donald Van DeVeer and Christine Pierce, eds. People, Penguins, and Plastic Trees: Basic Issues in Environmental Ethics. Belmont,Calif.: Wadsworth, 1986.
• Paul W. Taylor. Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
• Philip P. Hanson, ed. Environmental Ethics: Philosophical and Policy Perspectives. Burnaby, B.C.: Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, 1986.
• Bryan G. Norton, ed. The Preservation of Species: The Value of Biological Diversity. Princeton: Princeton University Press,1986.
• Eugene C. Hargrove, ed. Religion and Environmental Crisis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
• Eugene C. Hargrove, ed. Beyond Spaceship Earth: Environmental Ethics and the Solar System. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,1986.
• Yrjo Sepanmaa. The Beauty of Environment: A General Model for Environmental Aesthetics. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia,1986; Denton, Tex.: Environmental Ethics Books, 1993.
• J. Baird Callicott, ed. Companion to the Sand County Almanac. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
• Christopher D. Stone. Earth and Other Ethics: The Case for Moral Pluralism. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.
• Bryan G. Norton. Why Preserve Natural Diversity? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
• Holmes Rolston, III. Environmental Ethics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,1988.
• Mark Sagoff. The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• J. Baird Callicott. In Defense of the Land Ethic. Albany: SUNYPress, 1989.
• Eugene C. Hargrove. Foundations of Environmental Ethics. EnglewoodCliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989.
• Peter Wenz. Environmental Justice. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.
• Andrew Brennan. Thinking about Nature: An Investigation of Nature, Value and Ecology. Athens: University of Georgia Press,1989.
• Curt Meine. Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
• J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames, eds. Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.
• David Western and Mary Pearl, eds. Conservation for the 21^st Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Roderick Frazier Nash. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
• Donald Edward Davis. Ecophilosophy: A Field Guide to the Literature. San Pedro, Calif.: R. and E. Miles, 1989.
• Arne Naess. Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Robert C. Paehlke. Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
• Jay B. McDaniel. Of Gods and Pelicans: A Theology of Reverence for Life. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989.
• Robin Attfield and Katharine Dell, eds. Values, Conflict and the Environment. Oxford: Ian Ramsey Centre, and Cardiff: Centrefor Applied Ethics, 1989.
• Jay B. McDaniel. Earth, Sky, Gods & Mortals. Mystic, Conn.:Twenty-Third Publications, 1990.
• Donald Scherer, ed. Upstream/Downstream: Issues in Environmental Ethics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
• Warwick Fox. Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism. Boston & London: Shambhala,1990.
• Max Oelschlaeger. The Idea of Wilderness from Prehistory to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
• Lawrence E. Johnston. A Morally Deep World: An Essay on Moral Significance and Environmental Ethics. New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1991.
• Bryan G. Norton. Toward Unity Among Environmentalists. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Robin Attfield. The Ethics of Environmental Concern. rev. ed.Athens, Georgia, and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
• Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott, eds. The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold. Madison: Universityof Wisconsin Press, 1991.
• Max Oelschlaeger, ed. The Wilderness Condition: Essays on Wilderness and Civilization. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1992.
• Robyn Eskersley. Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
• Max Oelschlaeger, ed. After Earthday: Continuing the Conservation Effort. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1992.
• Susan Power Bratton. Six Billion & More: Human Population Regulation and Christian Ethics. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press,1992.
• Eugene C. Hargrove, ed. The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate: The Environmental Perspective. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
• Will Wright. Wild Knowledge: Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment. Minneaplolis: University of MinnesotaPress, 1992.
• Robert Costanza, Bryan G. Norton, and Benjamin D. Haskell,eds. Ecosystemic Health: New Goals for Environmental Management. Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, 1992.
• Peter List, ed. Radical Environmentalism: Philosophy and Tactics. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing, 1993.
• Joseph R. Des Jardins. Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy. Bemont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing,1993.
• Andrew McLaughlin. Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
• Michael Zimmerman, J. Baird Callicott, George Sessions, Karen J. Warren, and John Clark, eds. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall,1993.
• Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler, eds. Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
• Pete A. Y. Gunter. The Big Thicket: An Ecological Evaluation. Denton: University of North Texas, 1993.
• Rene von Schomberg, ed. Science, Politics and Morality, Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,1993.
• Dale Westphal and Fred Westphal, eds. Planet in Peril: Essays n Environmental Ethics. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt Brace & Co.,1993.
• Arran Gare. Beyond European Civilization: Marxism, ProcessPhilosophy and the Environment. Sydney: Eco-Logical Press, 1993.
• Lisa H. Newton and Catherine K. Dillingham. Watersheds: ClassicCases in Environmental Ethics. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1993.
• Max Oelschlaeger. Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press,1994.
• Louis P. Pojman, ed. Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1994.
• Lori Gruen and Dale Jamieson, eds. Reflections on Nature: Readingsin Environmental Philosophy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Donald VanDeVeer and Christine Pierce, eds. Environmental Ethics and Policy Book: Philosophy, Ecology, Economics. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1994.
• Laura Westra. An Environmental Proposal for Ethics: The Principle of Integrity. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.
• Frederick Ferre and Peter Hartel, eds. Ethics and Environmental Policy: Theory Meets Practice. Athens: University of Georgia Press,1994.
• J. Baird Callicott. Earth's Insights: A Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
• Holmes Rolston, III. Conserving Natural Value. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
• Anthony Weston. Back to Earth: Tomorrow's Environmentalism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
• R. Edward Grumbine, ed. Environmental Policy and Biodiversity. Washington, D.C.: Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, 1994.
• Michael E. Zimmerman. Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
• Robin Attfield. Environmental Philosophy: Principles and Prospects. Aldershot: Avebury, and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1994.
• Robin Attfield and Andrew Belsey, eds. Philosophy and the Natural Environment. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• John B. Cobb, Jr. Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology. rev.ed. Denton, Tex.: Environmental Ethics Books, 1995.
• Don E. Marietta, Jr. For People and the Planet: Holism and Humanism in Environmental Ethics. Philadelphia: Temple UniversityPress, 1995.
• James P. Sterba. Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights, and Practical Ethics. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: PrenticeHall, 1995.
• George Sessions, ed. Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism. Bostonand London: Shambhala, 1995.
• David Kinsley. Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality and Cross-Cultural Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall,1995.
• Bruce V. Foltz. Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Nature. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.:Humanities Press, 1995.
• Max Oelschlaeger, ed. Postmodern Environmental Ethics. Albany: SUNY, 1995.
• Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz, eds. Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice. Lanham, Md.: Rowman& Littlefield, 1995.
• Don E. Marietta, Jr. and Lester Embree, eds. Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Activism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield,1995.
• Holmes Rolston, III. Conserving Natural Value. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1995.
• Laura Westra and John Lemons, eds. Perspectives on Ecological Integrity. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publications, 1995.
• Derrick Jensen, ed. Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995.
• Ramon M. Lemos. The Nature of Value: Axiological Investigations. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1995.
• David Rothenberg, ed. Wild Ideas. Minneapolis and London: Universityof Minnesota, 1995.
• Rene von Schomberg, ed. Contested Technology: Ethics, Risk and Public Debate. Tilburg: International Centre for Human and Public Affairs, 1995.
• Robert Elliot, ed. Environmental Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Carolyn Merchant. Earthcare: Women and the Environment. New York: Routledge, 1995.
• Arran E. Gare. Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
• Karen J. Warren. Bringing Peace Home: Feminism, Violence, and Nature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
• Karen J. Warren. Ecological Feminist Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
• Andrew Light and Eric Katz, eds. Environmental Pragmatism. London: Routledge Press, 1996.
• Kent Peacock. Living with the Earth: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1996.
• Ad van Dommelen, ed. Coping with Deliberate Release. The Limitsof Risk Assessment. Tilburg: International Centre for Human andPublic Affairs, 1996.
• J. Baird Callicott and Fernando J. R. da Rocha, eds. Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.
• Peter S. Wenz. Nature's Keeper. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
• Arran Gare. Nihilism Inc.: Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability. Sydney: Eco-Logical Press, 1996.
• Eugene C. Hargrove. Foundations of Environmental Ethics. Reprinted. Denton, Tex.: Environmental Ethics Books, 1996.
• Robin Attfield and Katharine Dell, eds. Values, Conflict and the Environment. 2nd ed. Aldershot: Avebury and Brookfield, Vermont:Ashgate, 1996.
• Bob McConnell. Gentle Expeditions: A Guide to Ethical Mountain Adventure. Golden, Colorado: AAC Press, 1996.
• Lisa H. Newton and Catherine K. Dillingham. Watersheds 2: Ten Cases in Environmental Ethics. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1997.
• Alex Wellington, Allan Greenbaum, and Wesley Cragg, eds. Canadian Issues in Environmental Ethics. Peterborough, Ontario: BroadviewPress, 1997.
• Daniel A. Dombrowski. Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press,1997.
• Owen Goldin and Patricia Kilroe, eds. Human Life and the Natural World: Reading in the History of Western Philosophy. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1997.
• Ian Angus. A Border within: National Identity, Cultural Pluraity, and Wilderness. Montreal & Kingston, London, and Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.
• Pamela Smith. What are They Saying about Environmental Ethics? Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1997.
• Laura Westra and Thomas M. Robinson, eds. The Greeks and the Environment. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &Littlefield, 1997.
• John Patterson. Back to Nature: A Daoist Philosophy for the Environment. Aotearoa, New Zealand: Campus Press, 1997.
• David A. Crocker and Toby Linden, eds. The Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.
• Laura Westra and Patricia H. Werhane, eds. The Business of Consumption: Environmental Ethics and the Global Economy. Lanham,Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.
• Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith, eds. Philosophy and Geography I: Public Space. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &Littlefield, 1997.
• Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith, eds. Philosophy and Geography I: Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics. Lanham, Md.: Rowman&Littlefield, 1997.
• Kristin Shrader-Frechette and Laura Westra, eds. Technology and Values. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &Littlefield, 1997.
• Eric Katz. Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &Littlefield, 1997.
• Laura Westra. Living in Integrity: A Global Ethic to Restore a Fragmented Earth. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &Littlefield, 1997.
• David Abram. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. New York: Vintage, 1997.
• Robert Elliot. Faking Nature: The Ethics of Environmental Restoration. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
• Jospeh Grange. Nature: An Environmental Cosmology. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.
• Peter C. van Wyck. Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.
• Ariel Salleh. Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern. New York: Zed Books, 1997.
• Leena Vilkka. The Intrinsic Value of Nature. Amsterdam andAltanta, Ga.: Rodolpi, 1997.
• Pamela Smith. Environmental Ethics? New York and Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1997.
• David Western. In the Dust of Kilimanjaro. Washington, D.C. and Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, 1997.
• Roger S. Gottlieb, ed. The Ecological Community. New York: Routledge, 1997.
• Jean Mercier. Downstream and Upstream Ecologists: The People, Organizations, and Ideas behind the Movement. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 1997.
• Alan Drengson and Duncan Taylor, eds. Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Use. Gabriola Island, B.C. andStony Creek, Conn.: New Society Publishers, 1997.
• Clare Palmer. Environmental Ethics. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO,1997.
• Clare Palmer. Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Anthony Weston, ed. An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy. New York: Oxford University, 1999.
• Mark J. Smith, ed. Thinking through the Environment: A Reader. London: Routledge, 1999.
• Peter List, ed. Environmental Ethics and Forestry. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.
• Louis P. Pojman, ed. Global Environmental Ethics. MountainView, Calif.: Mayfield, 2000.
• Erazim Kohák. The Green Halo: A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics. Chicago: Open Court, 2000.
• John Benson. Environmental Ethics: An Introduction with Readings. New York: Routledge, 2000.
• Michael Boylan. Environmental Ethics. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2001.
• Peter S. Wenz. Environmental Ethics Today. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott, eds. Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2002.

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