Environmental Ethics – Duties to and Values in the Natural World

"By refusing to be pulled toward either an economics-based or a biocentrist position, Rolston bridges an otherwise yawning gap between the two camps... A model of the environmental thinking-and acting-required now and in the future." --Christian Science Monitor "Rolston's incisive logic...poetic insights...and almost conversational style reassure the reader... With luck, lots of people will accompany him on this journey, returning with ideas with which to launch sophisticated discussions of environmental ethics." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "A brilliantly provocative challenge for us to think about how we should behave toward the environment. A required book for public and natural science collections." --Library Journal "Rolston's work--worthy of becoming a classic itself--explores values from several points of view. The work is not a carefully structured argument, but a delightful series of insights and concrete examples leading to a new gestalt a unique groundbreaking work appropriate for all reader levels." --Choice "A lucid introduction to environmental ethics that will be of value to scholars, students, and general readers. Environmental Ethics is packed with information and a good deal of wisdom obviously acquired through long experience." --Edward 0. Wilson, Harvard University "Most insightful and poetic. We need...Rolston's wisdom." --Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Sierra "Rolston's analysis is perceptive philosophy yet accessible to a general audience. His comprehensive scope, accurate references, examples given, and clarity of text make the book invaluable to students of environmental ethics in a very practical way... Rolston clearly makes the case that we now find ourselves standing at an ethical threshold. . What a wonderful effort!" --David Hales, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan "This work is vintage Rolston, which is very good. He has a wonderful and intimate knowledge of matters environmental, which he again uses here in insightfully new ways... Rolston shows the relevance of an environmental appreciation to fundamental matters of ethical theory. This book reads well, reads easily, reads enticingly." --Donald Scherer, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University