Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics » (2nd Edition)

Two professors of religious studies (Florida International U.) introduce issues of environmental ethics through case studies that span the globe. Technology plays an important role in many of the cases, since, the authors note, it increasingly raises two important issues: "to what extent humans are a part of the environment (rather than only the subject that conceptualizes it) and the appropriate limits of human intervention in the environment." The title refers to three major themes involved in the cases described—the boundary between fields of ethics, the boundary between humans and the rest of the environment, and the boundary between what is and what could or should be in the environment. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR