ESEP Book 2

Eco-Ethics and Sustainability Ethics

Part 1

1. A Declaration of Eco-Ethics, 9
2. A Preliminary Declaration of Sustainability Ethics: Making Peace with the Ultimate Bioexecutioner, 12
3. Ethics in Science: Ecotoxicology, 19
4. Ethical Issues in Ecological Restoration, 28
5. Integrating Top-down/Bottom-up Sustainability Strategies: an Ethical Challenge, 44
6. Environmental Refugees, 51
7. Terrorism, Racism, Speciesism, and Sustainable Use of the Planet, 64
8. Espousing Sustainable Use of the Planet in an Age of Instant Gratification, 77
9. Reparations for Environmental Degradation and Species Extinction: a Moral and Ethical Imperative for Human Society, 83
10. Absence of Certainty Is Not Synonymous with Absence of Risk, 94
11. The Diminished Charge on the Intellectual Electric Fence, 99
12. Materialphilia, Biophilia, and Sustainable Use of the Planet, 107
13. Interrelationships between the Precautionary Principle, Prediction Strategies, and Sustainable Use of the Planet, 114
14. Repairing the Country's Ecological Infrastructure: the Cumulative Impact of Small Decisions, 123
15. The Re-emergence of Multidimensional People: a Consilience of the Disciplines, 134
16. Ecotoxicology and Sustainable Use of the Planet, 136
17. Sovereignty, Individuality, and Sustainability, 146

Part 2

18. War and Sustainability, 161
19. Future of Life on Earth, 171
20. Peace and Sustainability: Nurturing Complex Systems, 174
21. Allocating Finite Resources on a Finite Planet, 186
22. Sustainability Ethics Matter, 189
23. Taboos and Denials: Major Obstacles to Sustainable Use of the Planet, 194
24. Consilience or Consequences: Alternative Scenarios for Societal Acceptance of Sustainability Initiatives, 202
25. The Unmanaged Commons: A Major Challenge for Sustainability Ethics, 210
26. Carrying Capacity, Exponential Growth, and Resource Wars: Ethical Dilemmas of Human Society, 220
27. Is Human Society in Denial Regarding the Tough Questions About Sustainability? 230
28. Sustainability and Specialization, 245
29. Sustainability Ethics: Tales of Two Cultures, 253
30. Numeracy and Sustainability, 259
31. Small Islands: Harbingers of Earth's Ecological Fate? 271
32. You and Earth's Resources, 274
33. Choosing Model Nations to Set Examples for Achieving Sustainability, 278
34. Communication and Status: The Dilemma of an Environmental Scientist, 281
35. Eco-ethical Issues: Self-regulating versus Subsidized Ecosystems, 288
36. Sustainability and the Anthropogenic Alteration of Evolutionary Processes, 301
37. Coping with Ecological Catastrophe: Crossing Major Thresholds, 307

John Cairns, Jr.

University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Biology Emeritus, Department of Biology

and

Director Emeritus, University Center for Environmental and Hazardous Materials Studies

Address

Professor Emeritus John Cairns, Jr., Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA

Telephone: (+1) 540-231-8010, E-mail: jcairns@vt.edu

The book My Quest for Sustainable Use of the Planet describes the increasingly important role eco-ethics and sustainability ethics played in Professor John Cairns, Jr.'s professional career. From a modest beginning they became his primary career interest, as did membership in the EEIU. The book is available at no charge at www.johncairns.net.

Citation format:

Cairns J Jr (2003) Eco-Ethics and Sustainability Ethics. ESEP Book 2. Part 1. Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany. Available at www.esep.de/journals/esep/esepbooks/EB2Pt1.pdf

Cairns J Jr (2004) Eco-Ethics and Sustainability Ethics. ESEP Book 2. Part 2. Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany. Available at www.esep.de/journals/esep/esepbooks/EB2Pt2.pdf

© Inter-Research 2003, 2004. The articles in ESEP Book 2 are reproduced with permission of their original publishers. The book may be downloaded, stored, and redistributed (electronically or on paper) free of charge, provided that the contents remain unchanged and that the source is acknowledged. Neither the entire book nor any of its contents may be republished, sold or commercially distributed, except with permission of Inter-Research and of the original publishers.

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