Water ethics : foundational readings for students and professionals / Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Peter G.

Contributor:

Schmidt, Jeremy J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--Management--Moral and ethical aspects.

Water-supply.

Water quality management--Moral and ethical aspects.

Water quality management.

Water resources development--Moral and ethical aspects.

Water resources development.

Water rights.

Physical Description:

x, 301 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2010.

Summary:

The world's emerging water crisis has ignited efforts to reconnect policy to human values. According to the book, all approaches to managing water, no matter how grounded in empirical data, involve moral judgments and cultural assumptions. Each of the book's six sections discusses a different approach to thinking about the relationship between water and humanity, from utilitarianism to eco-feminism to religious beliefs. Contributors range from Bartholemew, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, to Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and water policy expert Sandra Postel. Water Ethics will help readers understand how various moral perspectives have guided and will continue to guide water policy around the globe.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction

Chapter 1: Water Ethics and Water Management

Part Two: Dominion and the Human Claim to Water

Chapter 2: Editors' Introduction

Chapter 3: Byzantine Heritage

Chapter 4: Water Ethics Perspectives in the Arab Region

Chapter 5: Which Rights Are Right? Water Rights, Culture, and Underlying Values

Chapter 6: Women, Water, Energy: An Ecofeminist Approach

Part Three: Utilitarianism

Chapter 7: Editors' Introduction

Chapter 8: Water as a Resource

Chapter 9: Priming the Invisible Pump

Chapter 10: Surface Water and Groundwater Regulation and Use: An Ethical Perspective

Chapter 11: Understanding Transfers: Community Rights and the Privatization of Water

Chapter 12: A Basis for Environmental Ethics

Part Four: Water as a Community Resource

Chapter 13: Editors' Introduction

Chapter 14: Water Rights in the Commons

Chapter 15: Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: General Principles for Successfully Managing the Commons

Chapter 16: The Legal Status of Water in Quebec

Chapter 17: The Rebirth of Environmentalism as Pragmatic, Adaptive Management

Part Five: Water: Life's Common Wealth

Chapter 18: Editors' Introduction

Chapter 19: Are There Any Natural Resources?

Chapter 20: The Missing Piece: A Water Ethic

Chapter 21: Fish First! The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management

Part Six: Ethics in Complex Systems

Chapter 22: Editors' Introduction

Chapter 23: Ecohydrosolidarity: A New Ethics for Stewardship of Value-Adding Rainfall

Chapter 24: An Ethic of Compassionate Retreat

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Advisory Board

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

757403619