Reference Works and Introductory Collections
The reference collection provides materials to assist you in finding background information, facts, and statistics. Don't forget that the bibliographies in reference works can direct you to important works in an academic field.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowSearch across a huge collection of the library's encyclopedias at once.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyInvaluable online reference source.
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Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy by Call Number: Ref GE42 .E533 2009Publication Date: 2008-10-15Availability and more information from Catalyst... -
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics by Call Number: Ref BJ63 .E44 1998Availability and more information from Catalyst... -
Encyclopedia of Ethics by Call Number: Ref BJ63 .E45 1992 (2 vol.) and OnlineISBN: 0415936721Publication Date: 2001-08-31Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Contains scholarly articles on applied ethics, normative ethics, ethical theory, and the history and important philosophers of ethics. Each entry includes a bibliography. -
Beacham's Guide to Environmental Issues & Sources by Call Number: Ref GE115 .B43 1993Availability and more information from Catalyst... -
Oxford Companion to Global Change by Call Number: Ref GE149 .C84 2009Availability and more information from Catalyst... -
Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change by Call Number: Reference GE149 .E443 2002 vol.1-5Publication Date: 2001-12-21A 5 volume set:
1: Physical and chemical dimensions
2: Biological and ecological dimensions
3: Causes and consequences
4: Responding to global environmental change
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Environmental Ethics by Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 1118658019Publication Date: 2013-07-09Availability and more information from Catalyst... -
Ethics by Call Number: BJ1012 .E8865 1994ISBN: 0192892452Publication Date: 1994-05-12To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, history, observation of non-human animals, the theory of evolution, game theory, and works of fiction, in addition to moral philosophy. -
Ethics and the Environment by Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 0511806183Publication Date: 2012-06-05This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. Topics discussed include the environment as an ethical question, human morality, meta-ethics, normative ethics, humans and other animals, the value of nature, and nature's future. The discussion is accessible and richly illustrated with examples. The book will be valuable for students taking courses in environmental philosophy, and also for a wider audience in courses in ethics, practical ethics, and environmental studies.
Books
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Subject searching:
- Environmental ethics
- Environmental sciences - philosophy
If you're not sure of which subject to use, try a keyword search on some of the concepts you're interested in, and then look at the subject headings of the most relevant books.
Browsing the shelves:
Because environmental studies is an interdisciplinary field, printed sources that may be useful are likely to be found in more than one part of the Library of Congress classification system. There is no one section specific to environmental ethics. Those books tend to be shelved with general environmental sciences, or human ecology books. Try browsing the books in the following areas:
- GB - Physical geography including landforms and hydrology.
- GE - Environmental sciences.
- GF - Human ecology - humans' relationship to specific environments.
- HD - Economic history and conditions of specific countries.
- HT - City planning, regional planning, rural development.
- QH - Natural history and ecology.
- S 900s - Conservation of natural resources.
- TD - Environmental technology.
