Ecological Prospects

Christopher Key Chapple is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Karma and Creativity and Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions, both published by SUNY Press.

"This book addresses ecological problems from different disciplinary perspectives in ways that general readers can easily understand. Several of the essays concisely summarize the major players and points of view on particular issues while presenting new points that contribute to the ongoing discussion about what needs to be done and how." — Daniel Kealey, Towson State University"What I like most about this book is its varied approaches to the issue of environmental concern. There is a genuine awareness in the book that welds such disparate views together into a coherent, readable text." — John Grim, Bucknell University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn TuckerPart I. The Definition and Preservation of Living Systems 1. Gaian ViewsDorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis2. Ecological Disaster in Madagascar and the Prospects for RecoveryPatricia C. Wright3. The Homogenization of the Planetary BiomeAlfred W. Crosby4. The Wilderness Idea RevisitedJ. Baird Callicott5. Ecological Theory and Natural Resource ManagementDaniel B. Botkin6. Individual or Community?David Rothenberg7. Environmental Action ChoicesAlbert J. Frisch, S.J.Part II. Religion, Aesthetics, and Ecology 8. An Ecological CosmologyMary Evelyn Tucker9. Emerging Options in Ecological ChristianityJay B. McDaniel10. EcofeminismRosemary Radford Ruether11. The Land AestheticJ. Baird Callicott12. Earth First!'s Religious RadicalismBron Taylor13. Review and ProspectsLouke Van Wensveen SikerContributorsIndex