Environmental Ethics  Tags: environment ethics climate_change nature biodiversity global_warming  

Books are useful for in depth information, including historical context, overview, synthesis and analysis of information. Often a chapter or two, rather than the entire book, are all that may be needed for your topic. The process of writing, editng, and publishing a book is lengthy, thus even the most recently published book may not contain the most current information on a topic.

Tips for searching MARQCAT

• Identify single words or short phrases that represent the major idea of your topic
  
• Try these as "Subject" searches in MARQCAT, follow the catalog's suggested headings
• Try the same words/phrases as "Keyword" searches.
  
• Look at the subject headings on the records of books good for your topic and search any that you haven't tried yet.

Look for books and other items in libraries near and far. Most items you find may be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

The Ethics of the Global Environment

Beyond the Land Ethic:  More Essays in Environmental Philosophy

Ethics for a Small Planet: New Horizons On Population, Consumption, and Ecology

Living in Integrity: A Global Ethic to Restore a Fragmented Earth: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics:  History of American Thought and Culture

Google Books is a great resource for finding books and gives a preview of what the book is about and often short sections to view.

There is a link to see if your local library library owns the book and you can see if any of the local libraries have the book!

The quality and relevance of information in books needs to be evaluated. What to look for:

Authority of the authors, editors - Determine the expertise of the authors, does it match the subject content of their writing?

Scope of Content - Does the content cover your topic to the degree you need? Is it in-depth or does it simply provide an overview with little facts, details, analysis?

Timeliness - Is the content timely for your topic. This is determined somewhat by the time period of your topic.

For help finding book reviews see this research guide:
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