1. Ethical reasoning / 2. The self in context : a grounding for environmentalism / Evaluating a case study: developing a practical ethical viewpoint -- 3. Worldview arguments for environmentalism -- A. The land ethic and deep ecology: -- The land ethic / The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement: a summary / What is social ecology? / B. Eco-feminism and social justice: -- Ecofeminism and feminist theory / The power and the promise of ecological feminism / Patently wrong: the commercialization of life forms / C. Aesthetics: -- Aesthetics and the value of nature / Worldview and the value-duty link to environmental ethics / Evaluating a case study: finding the conflicts -- 4. Anthropocentric versus biocentric justifications -- A. Anthropocentric justifications: -- Human rights and future generations / Environmental values, anthropocentricism and speciesism / B. Biocentric justifications: -- Environmental ethics: values in and duties to the natural world / Respect for nature: a theory of environmental ethics / C. Searching the middle: -- Reconciling anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric environmental ethics / On the reconciliation of anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric environmental ethics / Reconciliation reaffirmed: a reply to Steverson / Evaluating a case study: assessing embedded levels -- 5. Pollution and climate change -- A. Air and water pollution: -- Blue water / Polluting and unpolluting / Moral valuation of environmental goods / B. Climate change: -- Does a failure in global leadership mean it's all over? Climate, population, and progress / Collective responsibility and climate change / Evaluating a case study: applying ethical issues -- 6. Animal rights: -- All animals are equal / The radical egalitarian case for animal rights / Tom Regan -- A critique of Regan's animal rights theory / Mary Anne Warren and "duties to animals" / Against zoos / Evaluating a case study: structuring the essay -- 7. Sustainability -- A. Sustainability: what it is and how it works: -- Defining sustainability ethics / A perfect moral storm: climate change, intergenerational ethics, and the problem of moral corruption / Sustainability and adaptation: environmental values and the future / B. Sustainability and development: -- 'Sustainable development': is it a useful concept? / On Wilfred Beckerman's critique of sustainable development / Evaluating a case study: cases on sustainability.