Peter G. Brown is a Professor in the Departments of Natural Resource Sciences, Geography, and School of the Environment at McGill University. He is author of Restoring the Public Trust and The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth, and coauthor of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy.
Jeremy J. Schmidt is a PhD candidate and Trudeau Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario.
Introduction | p. 1 |
Water Ethics and Water Management | p. 3 |
Dominion and the Human Claim to Water | p. 17 |
Editors Introduction | p. 19 |
Byzantine Heritage His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew | p. 25 |
Water Ethics Perspectives in the Arab Region | p. 29 |
Which Rights Are Right? Water Rights, Culture, and Underlying Values | p. 39 |
Women, Water, Energy: An Ecofeminist Approach | p. 59 |
Utilitarianism | p. 77 |
Editors' Introduction | p. 79 |
Water as a Resource | p. 87 |
Priming the Invisible Pump | p. 91 |
Surface Water and Groundwater Regulation and Use: An Ethical Perspective | p. 105 |
Understanding Transfers: Community Rights and the Privatization of Water | p. 117 |
A Basis for Environmental Ethics | p. 125 |
Water as a Community Resource | p. 139 |
Editors' Introduction | p. 141 |
Water Rights in the Commons | p. 147 |
Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: General Principles for Successfully Managing the Commons | p. 155 |
The Legal Status of Water in Quebec | p. 167 |
The Rebirth of Environmentalism as Pragmatic, Adaptive Management | p. 179 |
Water: Life's Common Wealth | p. 197 |
Editors' Introduction | p. 199 |
Are There any Natural Resources? | p. 203 |
The Missing Piece: A Water Ethic | p. 221 |
Fish First! the Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management | p. 227 |
Ethics in Complex Systems | p. 241 |
Editors' Introduction | p. 243 |
Ecohydrosolidarity: a New Ethics for Stewardship of Value-Adding Rainfall | p. 247 |
An Ethic of Compassionate Retreat | p. 265 |
Acknowledgments | p. 287 |
Contributors | p. 289 |
Advisory Board | p. 293 |
Index | p. 295 |
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.