The Environmental Responsibility Reader

About the editors......Page 2
About this book......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction to environmental responsibility......Page 10
Reference......Page 15
Part one | Ethical and cultural traditions......Page 16
Introduction to part one......Page 18
Reading 1a: A fable for tomorrow......Page 20
Reading 1b: And no birds sing......Page 22
References......Page 30
The community concept......Page 31
Substitutes for a land ethic......Page 32
The outlook......Page 34
3 | On values and obligations to the environment......Page 37
Notes......Page 46
References......Page 47
Introduction......Page 49
Despair? Issues and values: normative ethics......Page 51
Apathy? How to do ethics and be ethical: philosophical ethics......Page 55
Cynicism? Ethics and politics......Page 57
Summary......Page 58
References......Page 60
1. Self-realisation......Page 61
2. Biocentric equality......Page 62
4. The consequentialist side of environmental ethics......Page 63
Notes......Page 67
References......Page 68
6 | Deontological environmental ethics......Page 69
References......Page 74
7 | The virtues of ecological citizenship......Page 75
Considering virtues......Page 76
The analysis of virtue......Page 77
The duties of ecological citizenship......Page 78
Agency and action: promoting virtue?......Page 80
Conclusion: some eco-virtues......Page 82
References......Page 83
Summary of part one......Page 86
Part two | Nature matters......Page 88
Introduction to part two......Page 90
8 | Toward an ecological conversation......Page 92
We converse to become ourselves......Page 94
Permission and responsibility......Page 96
Approaching mystery......Page 98
Where does the wild live?......Page 100
Toward creative responsibility......Page 101
References......Page 102
9 | Contemporary environmental ethics......Page 103
The metaethical debates of environmental ethics......Page 104
Nonanthropocentrism and environmental policy......Page 109
References......Page 110
Introduction......Page 112
Discovery Island......Page 114
The technological constitution of restoration......Page 116
The authority of science......Page 117
Two cultures......Page 119
References......Page 121
Introduction......Page 123
Nature framed......Page 124
The paradox and its resolution......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 130
References......Page 131
12 | Systems thinking for environmental responsibility......Page 132
Reading 12a: Fritjof Capra, The web of life......Page 133
Reading 12b: Fritjof Capra, Hidden connections......Page 135
Principles of ecology......Page 139
Notes......Page 140
Reading 12c: Werner Ulrich, Can we secure future-responsive management through systems thinking and design?......Page 141
References......Page 146
Introduction......Page 147
Environmental pragmatism......Page 149
The limitations of ‘practical problem-solving’......Page 151
Notes......Page 156
References......Page 157
A grass-roots critique of science......Page 159
Beyond participation: the challenge of cognitive justice......Page 164
References......Page 166
Summary of part two......Page 168
Part three | Individual and collective responsibility......Page 170
Introduction to part three......Page 172
15 | Autonomous yet responsible?......Page 174
16 | Individualization: plant a tree, buy a bike, save the world?......Page 181
A dangerous narrowing?......Page 185
Environmentalism and the flight from politics......Page 187
IPAT, and beyond......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 192
Notes......Page 193
References......Page 194
17 | Obligations to future generations......Page 196
Notes......Page 204
18 | The tragedy of the commons......Page 206
What shall we maximize?......Page 207
Tragedy of freedom in a commons......Page 208
Pollution......Page 210
How to legislate temperance?......Page 211
Conscience is self-eliminating......Page 212
Recognition of necessity......Page 213
Notes......Page 214
19 | The struggle to govern the commons......Page 215
Why a struggle?......Page 217
Selective pressures......Page 218
Requirements of adaptive governance in complex systems......Page 219
Strategies for meeting the requirements of adaptive governance......Page 223
Conclusion......Page 224
Notes......Page 225
20 | The big debate: reform or revolution?......Page 232
What does social learning look like?......Page 238
Individual, collective and social learning......Page 240
Engagement, identity and responsibility......Page 242
References......Page 243
22 | Uncertainty, environmental policy and social learning......Page 245
Reference......Page 248
Summary of part three......Page 250
Part four | Ecological citizenship......Page 252
Introduction to part four......Page 254
23 | Environmental justice in the United States and South Africa......Page 256
Fighting ‘environmental racism’......Page 257
Wilderness versus the environmentalism of the poor in South Africa?......Page 261
References......Page 263
24 | Ecological citizenship......Page 265
Environmental and ecological citizenship......Page 267
Liberal citizenship and the environment......Page 268
Ecological non-territoriality......Page 269
Duty and responsibility in ecological citizenship......Page 275
References......Page 278
The Just Sustainability Index......Page 280
Just sustainability in practice in U.S. cities......Page 283
References......Page 289
Introduction......Page 290
The US experience......Page 291
The European experience......Page 294
Conclusions......Page 297
References......Page 298
27 | The project of feminist ecological citizenship......Page 301
Tension 1: Balancing feminist and ecological political goals......Page 303
Tension 2: Instrumental or performative politics?......Page 304
Tension 3: Local-particular or global-universal citizenship?......Page 305
Tension 4: Public or private means of redistributing care?......Page 306
Tension 5: Can men change or is the future female?......Page 307
References......Page 310
Introduction: citizenship in the supermarket......Page 311
Sustainable consumption: shopping to save the planet?......Page 313
Mainstream policy frameworks for sustainable consumption......Page 314
An alternative strategy for sustainable consumption......Page 317
References......Page 320
29 | Buddhist virtues and environmental responsibility in Thailand......Page 323
References......Page 328
30 | Corporate environmental responsibility and citizenship......Page 330
Holding companies accountable......Page 332
From constituencies to stakeholders in the global corporate sector......Page 334
References......Page 336
31 | Strategic thinking and the practices of ecological citizenship: bringing together the ties that bind and bond......Page 337
References......Page 345
Summary of part four......Page 348
Epilogue......Page 350
Part two......Page 357
Part three......Page 358
Images......Page 359
Index......Page 360