The Foundation for Global Sustainability s State of the Bioregion Report for the Upper Tennessee Valley and the Southern Appalachian Mountains , Earth Knows, 1997. This course is an introduction to environmental ethics. There are no prerequisites.
Environmental ethics is a form of applied ethics.
So the course involves both ethical theory and ethical practice. We will try to ground both of these in engaged philosophical reflection. Ethical theory we will study in traditional ways, through readings, lectures, and class discussions. Ethical practice will be incorporated into the class in the form of group projects. Early in the semester, we will divide the class up into small working groups, each of which will study and work toward the solution of some local environmental problem.