Thinking About the Environment

Matthew Alan Cahn, Rory O’Brien

• Chapter 1 Thinking About the Environment: What’s Theory Got to Do With It?, Rory O’Brien, Matthew Cahn; Part I The Physical World; Chapter 2 On the Physical World: An Introduction, Rory O’Brien; Chapter 3 The Creation of the World, Genesis; Chapter 4 The Purpose of Nature, Aristotle; Chapter 5 The City of God, AugustineSt.; Chapter 6 Creation in Light of Luiseño Religion, Sam Gill; Chapter 7 The Hopi Myth of Creation, Frank Waters; Part II Law and Property; Chapter 8 Law, Property, and the Environment: An Introduction, Rory O’Brien; Chapter 9 The Nature of Private Property, Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Chapter 10 Of Property, John Locke; Chapter 11 The Commodity, Karl Marx; Chapter 12 The Categorical Imperative, Immanuel Kant; Chapter 13 The Problem of Justice Between Generations, John Rawls; Chapter 14 The New Forms of Control, Herbert Marcuse; Chapter 15 Liberalism and Environmental Quality, Matthew Cahn; Part III The Green Critique; Chapter 16 The Green Critique: An Introduction, Matthew Cahn; Chapter 17 Higher Laws, Henry David Thoreau; Chapter 18 Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson; Chapter 19 Silent Spring, Rachel Carson; Chapter 20 The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich; Chapter 21 The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology, Barry Commoner; Chapter 22 Ecology: The Shallow and the Deep, Arne Naess; Chapter 23 The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin; Chapter 24 Feminism and the Revolt of Nature, Ynestra King; Chapter 25 The Concept of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin; Chapter 26 The Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson; Chapter 27 Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement, Robert D. Bullard; Part IV Accommodating the Future; Chapter 28 Accommodating the Future: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Quagmire, Matthew Cahn; Chapter 29 Environmental Justice, Peter Wenz; Chapter 30 Should Trees Have Standing?, ChristopherStone; Chapter 31 Ecological Literacy, David W. Orr; Chapter 32 Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out, Lester Milbrath; Chapter 33 Free Market Environmentalism, Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal; Chapter 34 Steady-State Economics, Herman E. Daly; Chapter 35 Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics, Robert C. Paehlke; Chapter 36 Normative Theory and Public Policy, Rory O’Brien; Chapter 37 Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology, Daniel Press; Chapter 38 Rights and the Further Future, James L. Hudson; Chapter 39 Thinking About Sustainable Development: What’s Theory Got to Do With It?, Robert O. Vos;