Environmental Restoration: Ethics, Theory, and Practice / Edition 1

by William Throop

Overview

This important anthology organises key essays that outline perspectives on the rapidly growing practice of environmental restoration.

While some argue that environmental restoration is a new paradigm for environmentalism, others maintain that it is just more human domination of nature. The ongoing debate will help to shape environmentalism in the 21st century. A concise introduction by William M Throop outlines a range of issues about the values, beliefs, and attitudes that inform our assessment of restoration. Non-technical discussions of restoration projects place the issues in the context of current policy-making. For each issue, pro and con articles are juxtaposed to highlight areas of controversy. Leading environmental philosophers and restorationists, including Robert Elliot, William Jordan, Eric Katz, Steve Packard, and Holmes Rolston, are represented.This is the only anthology that focuses on the philosophical issues underlying restoration ecology. As such it will be of interest to students and professionals in the fields of environmental philosophy, environmental restoration, and conservation biology, as well as educated lay persons with an interest in environmental issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573928182
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2000
Series:	Flashpoints Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.32(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

William Throop is chair environmental studies at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont. He has published articles on environmental ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of social science.

Editorial Reviews

Outlines philosophical perspectives on the rapidly growing but controversial practice of environmental restoration, covering arguments for and against restoration, their underlying values, and ways restoration goals might be achieved. The central problems of restoration practice are whether damaged natural places can actually be restored by human endeavor, and the possibility that restoration is merely another example of humankind's domination of nature. No index. Contributors are primarily philosophers, writers, and environmental workers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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