Environmental Movement in the United States
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics
5 volume set
Encyclopedia of Ethics
3 volume set
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
2 volumes
"Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates. Covers concepts, institutions, topics, events, and people"-
The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics
This volume emphasizes non-Western varieties of virtue ethics at the same time that it includes work in the many different fields or areas of philosophy where virtue ethics has recently spread its wings. Several chapters make comparisons between virtue ethics and other ways of approaching ethics or political philosophy or show how virtue ethics can be applied to "real world" problems.-- From publisher's description.
