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Prediction and Rolston's Environmental Ethics: Lessons from the Philosophy of Science

Authors: McKinney, William J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Rolston (1988) argues that in order to act ethically in the environment, moral agents must assume that their actions are potentially harmful, and then strive to prove otherwise before implementing that action. In order to determine ...
Year: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-14 16:55

Case Study on Mars Exploration

Authors: Patterson, S. ; Miller, D. ; Edelson, M. ; Eastburn, D. ; Coors, J. ; Streiffer, Robert
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Discusses concerns about samples taken during an unmanned mission to Mars. If life can exist on that planet, there is some concern that it any life contained in samples taken on Mars could pose a threat to the environment on Earth. ...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/marsexploration.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-26 14:09

Whose Summer Home Is It?

Authors: Morris, Scott ; Mitcham, Carl ; Hardman, Lee ; Cavaletto, Cathy ; Bytnar, Pat ; Vigmostad, Karen E.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While beginning work on a summer home on the Great Lakes, the developer is confronted by an ecologist who is worried that building the house will result in the destruction of one of the last stretches of undisturbed sand dunes on Mi...
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/summerhome.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-26 14:22

Reintroduction of the Gray Wolf to Yellowstone National Park: A Case Study

Authors: Freeman, Arthur Jr. ; Dunning, John B. ; Carroll, Natalie ; Halberg, Constance A. ; Morgan, Janice
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Case study discussing the ethics of reintroducing gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park. ...
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/graywolf.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-26 14:53

Herbicide Resistant Rice

Authors: Vorst, Jim ; Graveel, John ; Hodges, Tom ; Joly, Bob ; Comstock, Gary
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A case that deals with some of the ethical issues surrounding genetically engineering rice to be herbicide resistant. In some cases, like that of the weed red rice, the herbicide resistant trait could be passed from the crop to the...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/herbiciderice.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-26 15:54

Journey towards sustainable development: A role for chemical engineers

Authors: Sikdar, SK
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS
Abstract: The article discusses the importance of sustainable development, and the role that chemists and chemical engineers can play in preventing prevent the consequences of unsustainable resource utilization....
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1002/ep.670220409

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-09 10:48

Love Canal : my story

Authors: Levine, Murray ; Gibbs, Lois Marie
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This is the personal version of incidents at Love Canal, where an elementary school was built on top of a site that was used for the disposal of chemical waste. Lois Gibbs was one of the main individuals who organized the Love Cana...
Year: 1982

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-11 16:41

From Environmental to Ecological Ethics: Toward a Practical Ethics for Ecologists and Conservationists

Authors: Minteer, Ben A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses the emerging field of "ecological ethics," how it differs from mainstream environmental ethics, and its use in helping ecologists and conservation managers handing ethical issues that arise in their professional...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-008-9087-0

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:16

The environmental ethics and policy book : philosophy, ecology, economics

Authors: Pierce, Christine ; VanDeVeer, Donald
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This text crosses disciplinary boundaries and looks at the economic reasoning and its implications for environmental policy issues, as well as the ethical implications of these approaches....
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:31

Environmental Justice and the Mississippi River Industrial Corridor

Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Keller, David R. ; Leever, Martin G. ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case discusses the trend of of zoning residential with industrial areas, the intentional targeting by corporations of minority communities for hazardous materials facilities, and the political weakness of minority communities t...
Year: 2009
URL: http://environmentalethics.posterous.com/

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-30 12:31

Ethics and the Spotted Owl Controversy

Authors: Velasquez, Manuel ; Baile, Jane
Publication Type: Case Study
Secondary Title: Issues in Ethics
Abstract: What is society's obligation to protect endangered species? To what extent should preserving endangered species and the environment they inhabit take precedence over other considerations, such as major economic dislocation?...
Year: 1991
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v4n1/homepage.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 11:47

Environmental ethics : an introduction to environmental philosophy

Authors: DesJardins, Joseph R.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: The text serves as an introduction to ethical theory as it applies to environmental issues and as a casebook on contemporary problems of science, industry, and individual decision-making. It provides a readable, yet philosophically ...
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-03 12:42

On Advocacy by Environmental Scientists: What, Whether, Why, and How

Authors: Nelson, Michael P. ; Vucetich, John A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Conservation Biology
Abstract: This article discusses the nature and appropriateness of advocacy by environmental scientists, and reports the results of a literature review during which the authors catalogued, categorized, and critiqued the arguments used for an...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01250.x

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-01 14:45

Mycoherbicide Spraying of Drug Crops (Case 8)

Authors: Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Bellon, Christina ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Connolly, Peggy ; Brinkman, Anthony
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As heroin addiction continues to grow in the United States, the U.S. government has been looking for was to eradicate opium at its source - the opium plants grown in fields in areas like Afghanistan. One way to do this is to use myc...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Case%208.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-12 12:48

Parklife

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Due to climate change, a large number of desperate Kenyans have settled illegally in the country's parks and are deforesting large areas to make them suitable for cultivation and cattle-grazing. Sadly cutting down the trees is helpi...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Parklife.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-09 12:11

Biofuel

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The increased demand for corn-based ethanol in the United States has lead to a rise in the global prices for corn. This price has had the devastating effect of inflating food prices for the poor, and as growing corn requires a mass...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Biofuel.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-09 12:09

Mortgaging the Future: Dumping Ethics with Nuclear Waste

Authors: Shrader-Frechette, Kristin Sharon
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: On August 22, 2005 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued proposed new regulations for radiation releases from the planned permanent U.S. nuclear-waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada.The author discusses the goal of t...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.nd.edu/~kshrader/pubs/epa-yucca-oct-2005-art-sci-eng-eth.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-21 12:01

The early days of Pugwash

Authors: Rotblat, Joseph
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Physics Today
Abstract: Features the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs organization which aims to eliminate war and the danger of nuclear weapon. Information on the manifesto signed by Albert Einstein which calls for a conference to avert th...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1063/1.1387592

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-21 11:59

A waste of space?

Authors: Moore, Mike
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Abstract: Discusses the problems involved in throwing nuclear waste into space. How nuclear waste could be thrown into the sun; Proneness of rockets to explosion; Cost of disposing plutonium into space....
Year: 2001

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-21 11:56

Climate Change: Do We Know Enough for Policy Action?

Authors: Schneider, Stephen H.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses how the climate change problem must be thought of in terms of risk, not certainty, and how it should be thought of in terms of a risk management problem. He calls upon scientists to look at possible outcomes and...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-006-0061-4

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-26 16:12

Fair Shares: A Preliminary Framework and Case Analyzing the Ethics of Offshoring

Authors: Gordon, Cameron ; Zimmerman, Alan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Much has been written about the offshoring phenomenon in business and manufacturing from an economic efficiency perspective. This article discusses the morality of offshoring, and develops a preliminary framework for analyzing the e...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9147-0

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-06-07 11:47

Green Chemistry as Social Movement?

Authors: Woodhouse, Edward J. ; Breyman, Steve
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: Are there circumstances under which scientists and engineers doing their ordinary jobs can be thought of as participants in a social movement? Green chemistry practitioners and entrepreneurs now constitute a small minority of chemis...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1177/0162243904271726

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-08-23 15:00

Real-Life Avatar

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: James Cameron, director of the movie Avatar, had become philanthropically involved a conflict over the Belo Monte damn project in the Amazon rain forest. The Belo Monte dam is part of a proposed hydroelectric project on the Xingu R...
Year: 2010
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Avatar.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-08 09:49

Shepherding in a New Era of Conservation

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Discusses the reality television show "Whale Wars" in which the environmental group the Sea Shepherds whose mission is to "use innovative tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illega...
Year: 2010
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Sheparding.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-08 09:49

Development with Coal

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Coal is one of the cheapest and dirtiest scalable methods of producing power. However, coal use was the driving force in the West's industrial revolution and the U.S. is still the leading producer and consumer of coal. For the past...
Year: 2010
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Coal.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-08 09:48