Environmental Ethics and Forestry: A Reader (Environmental Ethics, Values, and Policy Series)

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Summary: A Wonderful Collection
Review: As a professional philosopher and a forester-in-training I was pleased to come across this new volume. I had been looking to integrate my interest in forestry, the accessibility of the forest near where I teach, and concrete issues in land managment into my Environmental Ethics class. This book fits the bill. Moving from the ambiguous beginnings of forestry in America reflected in the work of Pinchot and Leopold and Muir through systematic reflections on ethics and forestry to a broad sampling of contemporary debates, this book is at once a compendium of good philosophy and good policy debate. I plan on building my course around this text this coming semester.