Nature in Common?

Nature in Common?
Title Nature in Common? PDF eBook
Author Ben Minteer
Publisher Temple University Press
Pages 312
Release 2009-04-15
Genre Nature
ISBN 1592137032

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This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well-being? Specifically, the fourteen essays collected here discuss the “convergence hypothesis” put forth by Bryan Norton—a controversial thesis in environmental ethics about the policy implications of moral arguments for environmental protection. Historically influential essays are joined with newly-commissioned essays to provide the first sustained attempt to reconcile two long-opposed positions. Bryan Norton himself offers the book’s closing essay. This seminal volume contains contributions from some of the most respected scholars in the field, including Donald Brown, J. Baird Callicott, Andrew Light, Holmes Rolston III, Laura Westra, and many others. Although Nature in Common? will be especially useful for students and professionals studying environmental ethics and philosophy, it will engage any reader who is concerned about the philosophies underlying contemporary environmental policies.

Common Ground

Common Ground
Title Common Ground PDF eBook
Author Rob Cowen
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 363
Release 2016-11-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 022642426X

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"Even in our parceled-out, paved-over urban environs, nature is all around us, it is in us. It is us. This is what Rob Cowen discovered after moving to a new home in northern England. After ten years in London, he was suddenly adrift, searching for a sense of connection. He found himself drawn to a square-mile patch of waste ground at the edge of town. Scrappy, weed-filled, this heart-shaped tangle of land was the very definition of overlooked - a thoroughly in-between place that capitalism had no further use for, leaving nature to take its course. Wandering in meadows, woods, hedges, and fields, Cowen found it was also a magical, mysterious place, haunted and haunting, abandoned but wildly alive - and he fell in fascinated love."--Book jacket.

Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature

Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature
Title Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature PDF eBook
Author Dan Dombrowski
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 280
Release 2014-10-21
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1443870234

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Environmental destruction, animal abuse, and widespread indifference toward plants and elemental systems demand that a human-centric view of the world be permanently dismantled. But once it is, what functional hierarchies take its place, if any? This volume brings Alfred North Whitehead's process-relational worldview into conversation with deeper empirical perspectives on science and religion, with activist and de/constructive philosophies, with South Asian and indigenous traditions, and with...

The Nature of the Common Law

The Nature of the Common Law
Title The Nature of the Common Law PDF eBook
Author Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 220
Release 1991-10
Genre Law
ISBN 9780674604810

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Common law rules predominate in some areas of law, such as torts and contracts, and are extremely important in other areas, such as corporations. Nevertheless, it has been unclear what principles courts use—or should use—in establishing common law rules. In this lucid book, Melvin Eisenberg develops the principles that govern this process.

Nature Crafts with Common Plants

Nature Crafts with Common Plants
Title Nature Crafts with Common Plants PDF eBook
Author Kate Hubmayer
Publisher
Pages 64
Release 2017-05
Genre Endemic plants
ISBN 9780648074908

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Imaginative craft ideas using plants that are widespread throughout the world. Includes information on the plants used.

The Realm of Nature

The Realm of Nature
Title The Realm of Nature PDF eBook
Author Hugh Robert Mill
Publisher
Pages 454
Release 1892
Genre Geomorphology
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The Common Thread

The Common Thread
Title The Common Thread PDF eBook
Author Georgina Ferry
Publisher Random House
Pages 358
Release 2010-12-15
Genre Science
ISBN 140905800X

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John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was pulled off in record time by an extraordinary collaboration of scientists. Despite innumerable setbacks and challenges from outside competitors the ultimate success of the project can be attributed in large part to John Sulston's own determination, passion and scientific excellence. In this personal account he takes us behind the scenes of one of the largest international scientific operations ever undertaken. He is frank about the competition with Craig Venter and Celera Genomics, which threatened to undermine the international community's attempts to make the sequence freely available to everyone. He shares with us his excitement as the project unfolded. And as a pragmatist he reveals his hopes and concerns as to how the information unlocked by the Human Genome Project will affect people's lives in the future. The Common Thread is at once a compelling history of this most exciting of scientific breakthroughs and also an impassioned call for ethical responsibility in scientific research. As the boundaries between science and big business increasingly blur, and researchers race to patent medical discoveries, the international community needs to find a common protocol for the protection of the wider human interest. The Common Thread tells a story of our shared human heritage, offering hope for future research and a fresh outlook on our scientific understanding of ourselves.