Ecology

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 304-315

  Shrader Frechette, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Environment; Policy making; Science; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242493601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751664.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. Barnthouse, L. W. et al. (1984) "Population biology in the courtroom: the Hudson River controversy," Bioscience 34, no. 1 (January) pp. 17-18. [A good example of how ecology affects policy.]
2. Cooper, G. (1990) "The explanatory tools of theoretical population biology," in PSA 1990, vol. 1, ed. A. Fine, M. Forbes, and L. Wessels (East Lansing, Mich.: Philosophy of Science Association), pp. 165-78. [A classic article by a top philosopher of ecology.]
3. Kingsland, Sharon (1995) Modelling Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). [One of the two best books on the history of ecology.]
4. Margules, C., Higgs, A., and Rafe, R. (1982) "Modern biogeographic theory: are there any lessons for nature reserve design?," Biological Conservation 24, pp. 115-28. [A classic article on island biogeography.]
5. Mcintosh, R. P. (1985) The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). [One of the two best books on the history of ecology.]
6. Norton, B. G. (1987) The Spice of Life: Why Save Natural Variety? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). [The classic philosophical text on diversity.]
7. Orians, G. H. (1986) (Chair, Committee on the Applications of Ecological Theory to Environmental Problems) Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Problem Solving (Washington, DC: National Academy Press). [The best National Academy volume on ecological method.]
8. Peters, Robert Henry (1991) A Critique for Ecology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). [One of the best critiques of ecological method.]
9. Regier, H. (1992) "Ecosystem integrity in the Great Lakes basin," Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health 25, pp. 25-37. [Classic article on integrity.]
10. Sagoff, M. (1985) "Fact and value in ecological science," Environmental Ethics 7 (Summer) pp. 99-116. [A classic article by an environmental philosopher and policy analyst.]
11. Shrader-Frechette, Kristin (1995) "Practical ecology and foundations for environmental ethics," Journal of Philosophy XCII, no. 12 (December), pp. 621-35. [A criticism of two basic ecological methods.]
12. Shrader-Frechette, K. and McCoy, E. D. (1993) Method in Ecology: Strategies for Conservation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). [The first book on philosophy of ecological method.]
13. Simberloff, D. S. (1983) "Competition theory, hypothesis testing, and other community ecological buzzwords," American Naturalist 122, pp. 626-35. [A classic article on island biogeo-graphy.]
14. Strong, D. (1986) "Density vagueness: abiding the variance in the demography of real populations," in Community Ecology, ed. J. Diamond and T. Case, (New York: Harper and Row). [A classic ecological article on ecological structure.]
15. Taylor, P. W. (1986) Respect for Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). [Classic book on environmental ethics.]