Required Textbooks
You are required to have a copy of these texts; they are available from the bookstore.
- Benson, John, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction with Readings, Routledge, 2001, ISBN 0415212367.
- Booth, Wayne, et al., The Craft of Research, 3rd ed., University of Chicago Press, 2008, ISBN 0226065669.
- Bouma-Prediger, Steven, For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care, Baker, 2001, ISBN 0801022983.
- Sandler, Ronald, Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, Columbia University Press, 2009, ISBN 0231141076.
Diana Hacker's Rules for Writers, 6th Edition, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003, ISBN 0312593392, is not required, but recommended if you'd like another writing resource. Students who took NPD 1000 should already have a copy of this book.
Additional Required Readings
While the readings below are required, you do not have to purchase them. They will either be given out in class, will be on "reserve," or are available online; see the Schedule for links to the articles that are online.
- Cornwall Alliance, The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, http://www.cornwallalliance.org/articles/read/the-cornwall-declaration-on-environmental-stewardship/ (accessed April 18, 2009).
- Cronon, William, The trouble with wilderness; or, getting back to the wrong nature, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, W. Cronon (ed.), W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1995, pp. 69–90.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Nature, Essays: Second Series, 1844, http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-2nd_Series_6_Nature.htm (accessed January 6, 2010).
- Gross, Rita M., Toward a Buddhist environmental ethic, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 65, Issue 2, Summer 1997, pp. 333–353.
- Lomborg, Bjørn, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0521010683.
- On the Care of Creation An Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation, http://www.creationcare.org/resources/declaration.php (accessed Jan 18, 2007).
- Oreskes, Naomi, Science and public policy: What's proof got to do with it? Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 7, 2004, pp. 369–383.
- Paley, William, Natural Theology, 1800, http://web.archive.org/web/20070403012022/http://philosophy.tamu.edu/~gary/intro/paper.paley.html (accessed January 6, 2010).
- Sarewitz, Daniel, How science makes environmental controversies worse, Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 7, 2004, pp. 385–403.
- Sarewitz, Daniel, and Roger A. Pielke, Jr., Breaking the global-warming gridlock, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, No. 1, 2000, pp. 55–64.
- Snyder, Samuel, Chinese traditions and ecology: Survey article, Worldviews, Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2006, pp. 100–134.
- Swearer, Donald K., Principles and poetry, places and stories: The resources of Buddhist ecology, Daedalus, Vol. 130, No. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 225–241.
