Readings in Environmental Ethics : Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Contents: Introduction. 1. Eco-centric morality: 1. Environmental ethics: a historical-intellectual background/S.A. Shaida. 2. On the adequacy of the human-centric model of the field of moral relations/Rajendra Prasad. 3. Environmental wisdom/Bijoy H. Boruah. 4. Eco-centrism revisited/Santosh Kumar Pal. 5. Peter Singer's views on environmental ethics and the expanding moral community/Ramdas Sirkar. 6. Does anthropocentric view rest on a mistake/Bibhu Prasan Patra. 7. Tracing the (Dis)continuities: heidegger on technology/A. Raghuramaraju. 8. Anthropocentric teleological eco-ethics/R.C. Sinha. 9. Environmental ethics: to what extent does it go beyond human-centred ethics/Dinesh Chandra Srivastava. II. Religion, culture and environment: 10. God, human and nature: some reflections from the viewpoint of Christian Theism/Richard Howell. 11. Glimpses of environmental ethics from Indian scriptures/P.K. Bajpai and Nitish Dubey. 12. Environment and Vedic literature/Ranjay Pratap Singh. 13. Hindu Dharma as Panacea for Environmental crisis/Sanjay Kr. Shukla. 14. Hinduism and environment/Shiv Bhanu Singh. 15. Nature, environment and spirituality/Rajjan Kumar. 16. Buddhist environmentalism/Avinash Kumar Srivastava. III. Environment and literature: 17. Nature and the poet: observations on Tulasidasa and Valmiki/Prabhat Kumar Pandey. 18. Nature in Hindi Chhayawadi poetry: an instance of Jai Shankar Prasad's Kamayani/Sanjay Kumar. 19. Asaadhya Veena: a poetic symbol of Deep ecological self-realization/Sujata Chaturvedi. IV. Science, society and environment: 20. Energy resources, impact on environment and ethical problems/P.K. Rath. 21. Role of environmental management standards in improving the environment/Vishnu Ratna. 22. Degradation of groundwater quality due to Arsenic, nitrate and Fluoride pollution/Jyotsna Lal. 23. Dilemmas of sustainable development in India/A.K. Sharma and P. Vigneswara Ilawarsan. 24. Development, environmental degradation and marginalization of women in South Asia/Vandana Asthana. 25. Environmentalism, development and human security: an obvious connection/Ashutosh Saxena. 26. Clean environment as a fundamental right/Kanchan Saxena. 27. A prospective study of environmental trends in India/Mukulika Hitkari. 28. Environmental ethics and its effects on Man/Deepshikha Banerji. 29. Moral status of non-human world/Mritunjay Kumar and Purnendu Shekhar. Index.
"This book contains reflective essays on various aspects of environmental awareness in contemporary times. Though contemporary in spirit, many of these essays also draw upon timeless traditional insights, both from the eastern and the western traditions. The book is conceived from the standpoint of multi-perspectival approach to the concept of environment. It is intended for readers who are, at many times desperately in need of an understanding of the idea of environment much more holistic than what other books on this issue usually provide. Currently enthusiastic research and widespread deliberations on this issue of environment would, it is believed, gain immensely from the multi-dimensional approaches presented in this book. The contributors are drawn from diverse intellectual preoccupations ranging from philosophy, religion, sociology, biology, physics to literature." (jacket)
