Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basic concepts -- Science, ethics and the environment -- Technological solutions to environmental problems -- Ethical theory and the environment -- Why protect endangered species? -- Environmental ethics as applied ethics -- Ethics and economics: managing public lands -- Development versus preservation -- Responsibilities to future generations: sustainable development -- Population and consumption -- Responsibilities to the natural world: from anthropocentric to nonanthropocentric ethics -- Animal research and factory farming -- Theories of environmental ethics -- Biocentric ethics and the inherent value of life -- Biodiversity -- Wilderness, ecology, and ethics -- Wilderness management: the cases of Yellowstone and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness -- The land ethic -- A place for predators -- Deep ecology -- Eco-philosophy as religion -- Environmental justice and social ecology -- Exporting toxic wastes: the World Bank memo -- Ecofeminism -- The Chipko Movement -- Pluralism, pragmatism, and sustainability -- Community-based conservation. This edition offers a new section on religion and environmental ethics, updated material on issues of population and consumption, an expanded discussion of ecofeminism and an enhanced chapter on pragmatism and pluralism in moral theories.