Watersheds 3: Ten Cases in Environmental Ethics

by Lisa H. Newton and Catherine K. Dillingham

Book Overview

This is the only environmental casebook of its kind, presenting current and classic cases with the detail required for students to experience serious and complex issues. The authors present cases of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534511821
• ISBN13: 9780534511821
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

latest edition of a great book

Disclaimer: I haven't read the third edition. However, I still assign Newton & Dillingham's discussion of Love Canal in the first edition of Watersheds. The book isn't quite as distinctive as it used to be, but it's an excellent collection of accessible and fair-minded case studies. I would also recommend Judith Layzer's _The Environmental Case_, which places more emphasis on policy analysis (as opposed to ethics) and perhaps goes farther into some factual details. Any reviewer who recommends _Trashing the Planet_ to get the "other side" of ten different environmental issues has a pretty one-dimensional approach to environmental issues in general. Newton & Dillingham do believe that environmental problems are real, but beyond that they have no axes to grind.