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In 1974, Baxter published a widely read and influential book on the law and economics of pollution control entitled People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution. This book, though aimed at a law audience, contains a philosophically sophisticated stance on the topic of animal rights .
Environmental ethics exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including environmental law, environmental sociology, ecotheology, ecological economics, ecology and environmental geography. There are many ethical decisions that human beings make with respect to the environment.
In comparison with other 'political' forms of criticism, there has been relatively little dispute about the moral and philosophical aims of ecocriticism, although its scope has broadened from nature writing, romantic poetry, and canonical literature to take in film, television, theatre, animal stories, architectures, scientific narratives and an extraordinary range of literary texts.
Modern issues within environmental philosophy include but are not restricted to the concerns of environmental activism, questions raised by science and technology, environmental justice, and climate change. These include issues related to the depletion of finite resources and other harmful and permanent effects brought on to the environment by ...
Environmental Ethics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering environmental philosophy.It was established in 1979 by the philosopher and an environmentalist Eugene Hargrove, [1] and is published by the Philosophy Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Environmental Philosophy (University of North Texas).
Ethics & the Environment is an academic journal focussed on environmental ethics published by Indiana University Press with support from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Philosophy Department, and the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Georgia. [1] The journal was established in 1996 by Victoria Davion. [1]
Despite its heart-healthy image, the latest research finds that alcohol is associated with a higher risk of heart disease. That risk appears to increase with the amount and frequency of alcohol ...
A\J: Alternatives Journal—published by the Environmental Studies Association of Canada; Annual Review of Environment and Resources—published by Annual Reviews, Inc.; eco.mont (Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management)—established by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Innsbruck, and other organizations—covering mountain research in protected area