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Title Geography and ethics : journeys in a moral terrain / edited by James D. Proctor and David M. Smith.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Overlapping terrains / James D. Proctor -- pt. 1. Ethics and space: Meaning and geography / Paul Roebuck -- Geography, justice and the limits of rights / Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson -- Geography, fairness, and liberal democracy / R.J. Johnston -- Exploring the ethics of development / Seamus Grimes -- Virtual geographies: the ethics of the Internet / Jeremy Crampton -- pt. 2. Ethics and place: "Hereness" and the normality of place / Michael R. Curry -- Geography and evil: a sketch / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Ethic cleansing of a "safe area": the fall of Srebrenica and the ethics of un-governmentality / Gearóid Ó Tuathail -- Social justice, self-interest and Salman Rushdie: re-assessing identity politics in multicultural Britain / Caroline Rose Nagel -- pt. 3. Ethics and nature: A moral earth: facts and values in global environmental change / James D. Proctor -- Natural and unnatural wars / Sheila Hones -- Altered states: nature and place in the Russian Far East / Jeremy Tasch -- Problem of pigs / Alice Dawson -- pt. 4. Ethics and knowledge: Community, justice, and the ethics of research: negotiating reciprocal research relations / Thomas Herman and Doreen J. Mattingly -- Morals and ethics in geographical studies of disability / Rob Kitchin -- Reciprocal appropriation: toward an ethics of cross-cultural research / Robert Rundstrom and Douglas Deur -- Ethical issues in practical contexts / Nuala Gormley and Liz Bondi -- End of the Enlightenment?: moral philosophy and geographical practice / Tim Unwin -- Conclusion: Towards a context-sensitive ethics / David M. Smith.
Summary Drawing together specially commissioned contributors from distinguished geographers from around the world the book examines the place of geography in ethics and of ethics in geography.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Geography.
Geography.
Geography -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Proctor, James D., 1957-
Smith, David M. (David Marshall), 1936-
Other Form: Print version: Geography and ethics. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 (DLC) 98047914
ISBN 9780203026489
0203026489
9780415189682 (hardbound)
0415189683 (hardbound)
9780415189699 (paperback)
0415189691 (paperback)
0203217829
9780203217825
1280332255
9781280332258
0203026489
0415189683 (hardbound)
0415189691 (paperback)