Research Guides: PHIL 290: Environmental Ethics: Home

Introduction

Purdue Libraries have numerous information resources dealing with environmental ethics and the multiple humanities, scientific, and social sciences materials encompassed in this subject. There are works representing a variety of political, economic, and philosophical perspectives on this subject in the Purdue Libraries collections. A good way to start your search is looking for books in the Purdue Libraries online catalog.

You can search for books using Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) searches in the Purdue Libraries online catalog. Sample terms you can use for such searches include:

Sample works dealing with environmental ethics include:

A Biblical Perspective on Environmental Stewardship

The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist by Gordon K. Durnil
ISBN: 025332873X
Publication Date: 1995-11-22
"[Durnil's attack on chlorine is] one of the single boldest environmental policy ideas of the 1990's.... The message is that if someone as conventional and as conservative as Mr. Durnil can latch on to one of the great social transformations of the American century, then so can every other Republican in the country." --New York Times Book Review "This is a serious, thoughtful book. If they would read it, the phoney 'conservatives' now performing in the center ring in Congress might be shamed into mending their ways. --Village Voice Literary Supplement "Here comes a thoughtful, experienced conservative with impeccable Republican credentials a dedicated environmentalist with a different point of view. A thoughtful, readable mandate."--Ken Bode, Moderator, Washington Week in Review
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
ISBN: 061825305X
Publication Date: 2002-10-22
Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outrcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred the revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. I tis without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.