Refounding Environmental Ethics: Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice

"Minteer’s new book lives up to its title: Refounding Environmental Ethics. [Minteer] builds his search for environmental values on a firm foundation in social science, which is essential to his pragmatist approach. He builds on Dewey's conception of democracy to deepen and broaden the intellectual base for environmental pragmatism, supporting a pluralistic way to determine and pursue environmental values, and he intertwines his argument with case studies and real situations. [This] book will be especially useful for environmental ethics classes designed for environmental studies or environmental policy students."
—Bryan G. Norton,Distinguished Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ben A. Minteer is Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics and Policy in the School of Life Sciences and is a Senior Sustainability Scholar in the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is author of The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America, and the editor of Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy (Temple).

Acknowledgments
1  Foundations Old and New
2  Democracy and Environmental Ethics: A Justi¹cation
3  The Public and Its Environmental Problems
4  Intrinsic Value for Pragmatists
5  Natural Piety, Environmental Ethics, and Sustainability
6  Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics: A Pragmatic Reconciliation
7  Pluralism, Contextualism, and Natural Resource Management: Getting Empirical in Environmental Ethics
8  A Practical Ethics for Ecologists and Biodiversity Managers (with James P. Collins)
9  Conservation after Preservation
References
Index