Textbooks or Anthologies on Specific Themes

also see Introductory Textbooks or Anthologies

last updated August 26, 2012
Activism

De-Shalit, Avner. The Environment: Between Theory and Practice. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
List, Peter C. Radical Environmentalism: Philosophy and Tactics. Belmont, Calif:
Wadsworth Pub. Co, 1993.
Marietta, Don E., and Lester E. Embree. Environmental Philosophy and
Environmental Activism. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.

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Animals

Armstrong, Susan J., and Richard George Botzler. The Animal Ethics Reader. 2nd
ed. London: Routledge, 2008.
Atterton, Peter, and Matthew Calarco. Animal Philosophy. New York: Continuum,
2004.
Garner, Robert. Animal Ethics. Cambridge: Polity, 2005.
Gruen, Lori. Ethics and Animals: An Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2011.
Hargrove, Eugene C. The Animal Rights, Environmental Ethics Debate: The
Environmental Perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Palmer, Clare. Animal Ethics in Context. New York: Columbia University Press,
2010.
Taylor, Angus, John W. Burbidge, and Angus Taylor. Animals & Ethics: An
Overview of the Philosophical Debate. Peterborough, OT: Broadview Press, 2009.

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Climate Change

Arnold, Denis Gordon. The Ethics of Global Climate Change. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Broome, John. Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World. New York, NY: W.W.
Norton, 2012.
Brown, Donald A. Climate Change Ethics: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm.
London: Routledge, 2013.
Gardiner, Stephen, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, and Henry Shue. Climate Ethics:
Essential Readings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Garvey, James. The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming
World. London: Continuum, 2008.
Harris, Paul G. World Ethics and Climate Change: From International to Global
Justice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Irwin, Ruth. Climate Change and Philosophy: Transformational Possibilities.
London: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2010.
Nanda, Ved P. Climate Change and Environmental Ethics. New Brunswick:
Transaction Publishers, 2011.
Preston, Christopher J. Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation
Management. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2012.
Schoenfeld, Martin. Plan B: Global Ethics on Climate Change: the Planetary Crisis
and and Philosophical Alternatives. London: Routledge, 2012.
Skrimshire, Stefan. Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination.
London: Continuum, 2010.
Thompson, Allen, and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer. Ethical Adaptation to Climate
Change: Human Virtues of the Future. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2012.

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Emerging Technologies (Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, etc.)

Allhoff, Fritz. Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology.

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, 2007.
Allhoff, Fritz, and Patrick Lin (eds.). Nanotechnology & Society: Current and
Emerging Ethical Issues. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009.
Budinger, Thomas F., and Miriam D. Budinger. Ethics of Emerging Technologies:
Scientific Facts and Moral Challenges. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
David, Kenneth H., and Paul B. Thompson. What Can Nanotechnology Learn from
Biotechnology?: Social and Ethical Lessons for Nanoscience from the Debate Over
Agrifood Biotechnology and GMOs. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008.
OMathuna, Donal. Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology. London:
Continuum, 2009.
Ruse, Michael, and David Castle (eds.). Genetically Modified Foods: Debating
Biotechnology. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002.
Sherlock, Richard, and John D. Morrey (eds.). Ethical Issues in Biotechnology.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Schmidt, Markus (ed.). Synthetic Biology: The Technoscience and Its Societal
Consequences. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009.

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Environmental Justice

Adamson, Joni, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein. The Environmental Justice
Reader: Politics, Poetics & Pedagogy. Tucson, Ariz: University of Arizona Press, 2002.
Agyeman, Julian, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, and Pat ORiley (eds.).
Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada. Vancouver, CA: UBC Press,
2009.

Cole, Luke W., and Sheila R. Foster. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism
and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: New York University
Press, 2001.
Hill, Barry E. Environmental Justice: Legal Theory and Practice. 2nd ed.
Washington, D.C.: ELI Press/Environmental Law Institute, 2012.
Rainey-Brown, Shirley A., and Glenn S. Johnson. Environmental Justice Reader:
Addressing the History, Issues, Policy and Change. Deer Park, N.Y.: Linus
Publications, 2011.
Sandler, Ronald D., and Phaedra C. Pezzullo. Environmental Justice and
Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement.
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007.
Shrader-Frechette, K. S. Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming
Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Stein, Rachel. New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and
Activism. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Walker, Gordon. Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics. Abingdon,
Oxon: Routledge, 2012.

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Food, Water, & Agriculture

Allhoff, Fritz Monroe Dave. Food and Philosophy: Eat, Think, and Be Merry. New
York: Blackwell Publishers, 2007.
Allhoff, Fritz. Wine & Philosophy: In Vino Veritas. New York: Blackwell
Publishers, 2008.
Brown, Peter G., and Jeremy J. Schmidt. Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for
Students and Professionals. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Gottwald, Franz-Theo, Hans Werner Ingensiep, and Marc Meinhardt. Food Ethics.
New York: Springer, 2010.
Kaplan, David M. Philosophy of Food. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2012.

Korthals, Michiel. Before Dinner: Philosophy and Ethics of Food. Dordrecht,

Netherlands: Springer, 2004.
Mepham, Ben T. Food Ethics. Professional Ethics. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Pence, Gregory E. The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Pojman, Paul. Food Ethics. Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011.
Telfer, Elizabeth. Food for Thought: Philosophy and Food. London ; New York:
Routledge, 1996.
Thompson, Paul B. Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective, 2nd ed. Dordrecht:
Springer, 2007.
Thompson, Paul B. The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics.
Environmental Philosophies Series. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Thompson, Paul B. Agricultural Ethics: Research, Teaching, and Public Policy. New
York: Wiley, 1999.

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Future Generations

Gosseries, Axel, and Lukas H. Meyer (eds.). Intergenerational Justice. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Partridge, Ernest (ed.). Responsibilities to Future Generations. Buffalo, NY:
Prometheus, 1980.
Tremmel, Jorg (ed.). Handbook of Intergenerational Justice. Cheltenham, UK:
Edward Elgar, 2006.

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Indigenous Philosophy

Berkes, Fikret. Sacred Ecology. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Callicott, J. Baird. Earths Insights A Survey of Ecological Ethics from the
Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 1997.
Callicott, J. Baird, and Michael P. Nelson. American Indian Environmental Ethics:
An Ojibwa Case Study. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2004.
Cordova, V. F., and Kathleen Dean Moore. How It Is: The Native American
Philosophy of V.F. Cordova. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.
Dudgeon, Roy C. Common Ground: Eco-Holism & Native American Philosophy.
Winnipeg: Pitch Black Publications, 2008.
Schweninger, Lee (ed.). Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses
to the Landscape. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2008.

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Public Policy

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Religion

Benstein, Jeremy. The Way into Judaism and the Environment. Woodstock, Vt:
Jewish Lights Pub, 2006.
Sideris, Lisa H. Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Yaffe, Martin D. Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader. Lanham, Md:
Lexington Books, 2001.

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Sustainability

Becker, Christian U. Sustainability Ethics and Sustainability Research. Springer

Verlag, 2011.
Newton, Lisa H. Ethics and Sustainability: Sustainable Development and the Moral
Life. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003.
Raffaelle, Ryne, Wade L. Robison, and Evan Selinger (eds.). Sustainability Ethics: 5
Questions. Copenhagen: Automatic Press/VIP, 2010.

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Wilderness

Callicott, J. Baird, and Michael P. Nelson (eds.). The Great New Wilderness Debate.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
Cronon, William. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New
York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1996.
Duerr, Hans Peter. Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary between Wilderness and
Civilization. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1985.
Dizard, Jan E. Going Wild Hunting, Animal Rights, and the Contested Meaning of
Nature. rev. & expanded ed. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Nash, Roderick Frazier. Wilderness and the American Mind. 4th ed. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 2001.
Nelson, Michael P., and J. Baird Callicott (eds.). The Wilderness Debate Rages on:
Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate. Athens, GA: University of Georgia
Press, 2008.

Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.