"This volume had its inception in the workshop sponsored by the Ethics Working Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) at the 1986 Conference on Conservation and Development in Ottawa"--Pref. "First published in Great Britain in 1990 by Belhaven Press"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the ethics of sustainable development / J. Ronald Engel -- Environment, technology, and ethics / Rajni Kothari -- Development ethics and ecological wisdom / Denis Goulet -- The encounter of religion and conservation / Martin Palmer -- Science-based versus traditional ethics / Holmes Rolston, III -- Towards an ecological world view / Stephen R. Sterling -- Sustainable development and deep ecology / Arne Naess -- Reverence for life / Henryk Skolimowski -- A new Christian reformation / Robert J. Moore -- Raising the biosphere to the noosphere / I. Laptev -- The development vision of socialist humanism / Mihailo Markovic -- The search for an ethic of sustainable development in Latin America / Eduardo Gudynas. The hope for just, participatory ecodevelopment in Costa Rica / David A. Crocker -- Traditional African land ethics / C.K. Omari -- Communalism : the moral factor in African development / Jimoh Omo-Fadaka -- The range of mountains is His pasture : environmental ethics in Israel / Bill Clark -- Islamic environmental ethics : law and society / Mawil Y. Izzi Deen (Samarrai) -- Satyagraha for conservation : awakening the spirit of Hinduism / O.P. Dwivedi -- A Buddhist perception of a desirable society / S. Sivaraksa -- Ancient wisdom and sustainable development from a Chinese perspective / Simon Sui-Cheong Chau and Fung Kam-Kong -- The daughters of Earth : women's culture as a basis for sustainable development / Hilkka Pietila -- Living with nature : reciprocity or control? / Ariel Salleh.