Water Ethics

ISLAND PRESSISBN: 9781597265652

Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals

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Edited by Peter G. Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt
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320

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PART I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Water Ethics and Water Management
 
PART II. Dominion and the Human Claim to Water
Chapter 2. Editors' Introduction
Chapter 3. Byzantine Heritage
Chapter 4. Water Ethics Perspectives in the Arab Region 
Chapter 5. Which Rights Are Right? Water Rights, Culture, and Underlying Values
Chapter 6. Women, Water, Energy: An Ecofeminist Approach
 
PART III. Utilitarianism
Chapter 7. Editors' Introduction
Chapter 8. Water as a Resource
Chapter 9. Priming the Invisible Pump
Chapter 10. Surface Water and Groundwater Regulation and Use: An Ethical Perspective
Chapter 11. Community Rights and the Privatization of Water
Chapter 12. A Basis for Environmental Ethics
 
PART IV. Water as a Community Resource
Chapter 13. Editors' Introduction
Chapter 14. Water Rights in the Commons
Chapter 15. Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: General Principles for Successfully Managing the Commons
Chapter 16. The Legal Status of Water in Quebec
Chapter 17. The Rebirth of Environmentalism as Pragmatic, Adaptive Management
 
PART V. Water: Life' s Common Wealth
Chapter 18. Editors' Introduction
Chapter 19. Are There Any Natural Resources?
Chapter 20. The Missing Piece: A Water Ethic
Chapter 21. Fish First! The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management
 
PART VI. Ethics in Complex Systems
Chapter 22. Editors' Introduction
Chapter 23. Ecohydrosolidarity: A New Ethics for Stewardship of Value-Adding Rainfall
Chapter 24. An Ethic of Compassionate Retreat

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Advisory Board
Index

"This book sets a modest first step for exploring this new terrain."

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