Comprises both classic and cutting edge essays on topics ranging from the welfare of animals versus ecosystems, to theories of the intrinsic value of nature. Presents important works on particular environmental issues, such as wilderness preservation and global climate change. Featuring the best of traditional and contemporary approaches to environmental philosophy, Environmental Ethics: An Anthology brings together seminal writings on the central questions in environmental ethics. Acknowledgments viii Introduction: Ethics and Environmental Ethics 1(12) Andrew Light Holmes Rolston III Part I What is Environmental Ethics? 13(40) An Overview of Environmental Ethics 15(23) Clare Palmer The Land Ethic 38(9) Aldo Leopold Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental, Ethic? 47(6) Richard Sylvan Part II Who Counts in Environmental Ethics -- Animals? Plants? Ecosystems? 53(76) Not for Humans Only: The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues 55(10) Peter Singer Animal Rights: What's in a Name? with a brief extract from The Case for Animal Rights 65(9) Tom Regan The Ethics of Respect for Nature 74(11) Paul W. Taylor Is There a Place for Animals in the Moral Consideration of Nature? 85(10) Eric Katz Can Animal Rights Activists Be Environmentalists? 95(19) Gary E. Varner Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems 114(15) Harley Cahen Part III Is Nature Intrinsically Valuable? 129(62) The Varieties of Intrinsic Value 131(12) John O'Neill Value in Nature and the Nature of Value 143(11) Holmes Rolston III The Source and Locus of Intrinsic Value: A Reexamination 154(9) Keekok Lee Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism 163(12) Bryan G. Norton Weak Anthropocentric Intrinsic Value 175(16) Eugene Hargrove Part IV Is There One Environmental Ethic? Monism versus Pluralism 191(58) Moral Pluralism and the Course of Environmental Ethics 193(10) Christopher D. Stone The Case against Moral Pluralism 203(17) J. Baird Callicott Minimal, Moderate, and Extreme Moral Pluralism 220(9) Peter S. Wenz The Case for a Practical Pluralism 229(20) Andrew Light Part V Reframing Environmental Ethics: What Alternatives Exist? 249(82) Deep Ecology 251(1) Deep Ecology: A New Philosophy of our Time? 252(10) Warwick Fox The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects 262(14) Arne Naess Ecofeminism 275(1) Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health 276(18) Greta Gaard Lori Gruen Ecological Feminism and Ecosystem Ecology 294(13) Karen J. Warren Jim Cheney Environmental Pragmatism 306(1) Beyond Intrinsic Value: Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics 307(12) Anthony Weston Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics: Democracy, Pluralism, and the Management of Nature 319(12) Ben A. Minteer Robert E. Manning Part VI Focusing on Central Issues: Sustaining, Restoring, Preserving Nature 331(118) Is Sustainability Possible? 333(1) The Ethics of Sustainable Resources 334(25) Donald Scherer Toward a Just and Sustainable Economic Order 359(12) John B. Cobb, Jr. Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming 371(10) Dale Jamieson Can and Ought We Restore Nature? 380(1) Faking Nature 381(9) Robert Elliot The Big Lie: Human Restoration of Nature 390(8) Eric Katz Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature: A Pragmatic Perspective 398(15) Andrew Light Should We Preserve Wilderness? 412(1) An Amalgamation of Wilderness Preservation Arguments 413(24) Michael P. Nelson A Critique of and an Alternative to the Wilderness Idea 437(7) J. Baird Callicott Wilderness -- Now More Than Ever: A Response to Callicott 444(5) Reed F. Noss Part VII What on Earth Do We Want? Human Social Issues and Environmental Values 449(78) Feeding People versus Saving Nature? 451(12) Holmes Rolston III Saving Nature, Feeding People, and Ethics 463(9) Robin Attfield Integrating Environmentalism and Human Rights 472(6) James W. Nickel Eduardo Viola Environmental Justice: An Environmental Civil Rights Value Acceptable to All World Views 478(9) Troy W. Hartley Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice 487(13) Brian Barry Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy 500(16) Bryan G. Norton Bruce Hannon Environmental Awareness and Liberal Education 516(11) Andrew Brennan Index 527