Re: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-02-06 Thread Dale W Jamieson
dear beth and others, as you probably know there is alot of work in environmental philosophy that discusses a variety of reasons for protecting the environment. i critically discuss some of them in 'ethics and the environment: an introduction, available here:

Re: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-03 Thread syma ebbin
BEth AN interesting article linking SJ and the environment to Rev. Martin Luther King...  Opinion | Dr. King’s Interconnected World | | | | || | | | || Opinion | Dr. King’s Interconnected World By Drew Dellinger In his last Christmas sermon, Martin Luther King

Re: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-03 Thread Kevin Olsen
I have been using the Catskill watersheds for my classes as well. kevin On 1/3/2018 12:10 PM, Peter M Haas wrote: For exploring the economic value of ecosystem services, I've used the case study of analyzing the protection of the NYC public water supply watershed in the Catskills. There are

RE: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-03 Thread Peter M Haas
Deirdre McCloskey offers the classical economic argument that the problem is inadequate economic growth. He alludes to the liberal argument that democracy/representation plus economic resources solves everything, but comes down on the economic side. He has a 3 volume (with more to come) set

Re: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-03 Thread syma ebbin
Hi Beth,very cool! In the past I've used excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac to start a discussion on the intrinsic value of nature. But I'd be interested in other perhaps more updated references that highlight this. For exploring the economic value of ecosystem services, I've used

[gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-01 Thread Beth DeSombre
Hi folks: I'm re-doing my Environmental Policy seminar syllabus for the spring, and want to have an initial week on different types of reasons for protecting the environment/addressing environmental problems. My hope is to have a different reading for each of a variety of (different types of)