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introduction
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Joel Reichart, Patricia H. Werhane, Patricia H. Werhane Introduction
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section i: business and the environment
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Carolyn Merchant Partnership Ethics: Business and the Environment
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George G. Brenkert Partners, Business and the Environment: Comments on Merchant’s Partnership Ethics
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section ii: corporate environmental strategies and ecology
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Dr. Paul Shrivastava Ecocentering Strategic Management
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Laura Westra Integrating the Social Contract and the Ecological Approach: A Response to Paul Shrivastava
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section iii: consumption
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Mark Sagoff Do We Consume Too Much?
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Rogene A. Buchholz Toward a New Ethic of Production and Consumption: A Response to Sagoff
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Sandra B. Rosenthal The Four Good Reasons for Limiting Consumption: A Pragmatic Perspective
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Ernest Partridge How Much Is Too Much?
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Gordon G. Sollars, R. Edward Freeman Sagoff’s Environmentalism: An Economic and Ethical Critique
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section iv: new paradigms for environmentally sustainable business
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William McDonough A Boat for Thoreau: A Discourse on Ecology, Ethics, and the Making of Things
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Michael E. Gorman Imaginative Design Challenges to “Do We Consume Too Much?”
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section v: a life-centered approach
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R. Edward Freeman, Joel Reichart Toward a Life Centered Ethic for Business
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Bryan G. Norton Clearing the Way for a Life-Centered Ethic for Business: A Response to Freeman and Reichart
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I agree with much of Freeman and Reichart’s paper; so, by way of comment, I will simply supplement his argument in two ways. First, agreeing with their conclusion that we can, and should, re-direct business toward environmental protection without embracing a nonanthropocentric ethic, I will show that the pre-occupation of recent and contemporary environmental ethics with the anthropocentrism/non-anthropocentrism debate is avoidable. It rests on a misinterpretation of possible moral responses to the arrogance with which Western science, technology, and culture has treated nature. A better understanding of the history of the idea of nonanthropocentrism will, I believe, strengthen Freeman and Reichart’s case for pluralism in environmental ethics and values. Second, I will emphasize several points that seem to me to fit well with Freeman and Reichart’s approach, and which would provide important detailing for the type of approach he sketches, arguing that much hard intellectual work stands between us and a satisfactory, and useful, but pluralistic, and life-centered ethic for business and the environment.
section vi: some difficult dilemmas in industrial ecology
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette Ethics and the Challenge of Low-Dose Exposures
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In a recent article in American Scientist, a Berkeley expert quips: “Chicken Little is alive and well in America.” Never in history have health and environment-related hazards been so low, he says, while “so much effort is put into removing the last few percent of pollution or the last little bit of risk.” He thinks we have monumental battles over negligible risks, battles that are extraordinarily expensive for the industries that must pay to control pollution or to reduce risk.
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Vivian E. Thomson Getting the Lead Out: Grab-Bag Ethics in Environmental Policy Making
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section vii: the environment as a global stakeholder
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Lee E. Preston Global Economy/Global Environment: Relationships and Regimes
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The purpose of this paper is to set the stage by presenting a sketch of the global economic setting within which the environmental issues, which are our main concerns here, have arisen. It is important to note that this is also the setting within which any human, social and technological responses to these issues and concerns win have to be developed and implemented. There is no use thinking about arrangements that will work only in some other world. This world-the Planet Earth, with all its demographic, physical and climatological characteristics—is the only one we have to work with.
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Lisa H. Newton A Scaffold For Muir: A Logic for Environmental Protection
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Everyone knows that somehow we must protect the natural environment as part of the ethical imperatives of doing business, especially in the era of globalization of business. But where, actually, do we find the structure of ethical imperatives that will support that “must”? The drawbacks of several candidates, some of them discussed in papers elsewhere in this volume, are considered, then supplemented with the Japanese concept of kyosei as supplying a missing link between ethics and the land. In the end, some questions are raised about the possibility of success of the entire environmental enterprise in face of the provisions of global trade agreements.
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Edward Stead, Jean Garner Earth: A Spiritual Stakeholder
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Assigning the moniker stakeholder to the planet has stirred a rather interesting debate in recent years. Proponents have insisted that the Earth is both the ultimate source of economic resources and the ultimate sink for economic wastes, meaning that it “affects or is affected by the achievement of the organization’s objectives” (Freeman, 1984, p. 46). They have said that giving the Earth stakeholder status can effectively tie the ecological health of the planet to the economic survival of the firm, and they have demonstrated this by focusing primarily on the economic benefits which can accrue to firms that effectively respond to the ecological concerns of regulators, consumers, investors, lenders, insurers, and so forth. However, others have questioned assigning the Earth stakeholder status. They have said that doing so convolutes the definition of stakeholder too much by expanding it to something other than “person[s] and groups” (Freeman, 1984, p. 46), and they have said that referring to the planet as a stakeholder is an idealistic view which defies the realities of the relationship between economic activity and the Entropy Law. Regardless of the side, the arguments in this debate have focused primarily at the economic level. Does the Earth’s central place in humanity’s economic survival suffice to give it stakeholder status? Does the Earth have voices on boards of directors? Is the underlying assumption made by those who advocate giving the Earth stakeholder status—that economic activity is ecologically sustainable—truly reflective of the relationship between economics and entropy? However, for us this debate took an interesting turn away from the economic level at the 1997 Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics when Ian Mitroff said, “The Earth is a stakeholder, but it is a spiritual stakeholder.”
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Notes on Contributors
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