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Doing Environmental Ethics is a brief, accessible applied-ethics book offering an inclusive and practical way for an individual to personally address the worlds ecological crisis. Author Robert Traer builds on a common sense understanding of doing what is right and being a good person and suggests how, with a deeper sense of self and one’s place in nature, we can begin to change our carbon footprint. To consider and understand public policies and personal environmental practices, Traer draws on secular and religious perspectives, as well as Eastern and Western traditions. Doing Environmental Ethics devotes central attention to considerations of duty (to other people, species, and ecosystems), character (personal traits and virtues), relationships (to people and the natural environment) and rights (of people to participate in land-use decisions that affect them). Discussion questions at the end of each chapter help readers clarify their reasoning and create action plans for change. Doing Environmental Ethics demonstrates how valuable defining one’s own philosophy about the environment is to living with greater ecological awareness and sense of personal responsibility.

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<p> In this well-done, three-part work, Traer offers a solid introduction to environmental ethics. ... Traer presents opposing views fairly, and is good at explaining/applying concepts. Recommended. -- Choice <p> In the hands of Traer environmental ethics become the critical search for wisdom for individuals and for society in dealing with the greatest crisis in human history. It includes, and draws from, the whole range of formal ethical systems, but it also treats specific environmental problems such as global warming. It shows how these cannot be separated from economic and political theory and practice. And it does all this in relation to our actual historical situation and cultural diversity. This is ethics at its transdisciplinary best. <br> -- John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology<p> Doing Environmental Ethics stands out among the many available textbooks on the topic because of its clarity and inclusiveness. Most such books show clearly the

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Robert Traer holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, a J.D. from the School of Law of the University of California at Davis, and a D.Min. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is a member of the faculty at Dominican University in San Rafael, California. With Harlan Stelmach, he is coauthor of Doing Ethics in a Diverse World (Westview Press, 2008).

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