1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463800003321

Autore

McMillen Sally G (Sally Gregory), <1944->

Titolo

Lucy Stone : an unapologetic life / / Sally G. McMillen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-938505-X

0-19-977843-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Disciplina

324.6/23092

Soggetti

Suffragists - United States

Women's rights - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964716603321

Autore

Searle D. Richard (Donald Richard), <1951->

Titolo

Population growth, resource consumption and the environment : seeking a common vision for a troubled world / / prepared by Rick Searle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Victoria, B.C., : Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, c1995

ISBN

0-88920-614-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SearleD. Richard <1951-> (Donald Richard)

Disciplina

291.1/78366

Soggetti

Population policy - Moral and ethical aspects

Environmental policy - Moral and ethical aspects

Environmental protection - Religious aspects

Conservation of natural resources - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Based on the 1993 International Summer Institute, Population and the environment: population pressures, resource consumption, religion and ethics, Chateau Whistler, Whistler, B.C., Canada, 18-27, 1993".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Overview -- SECTION I: THE PLANETARY CRISIS -- The Human Context -- The Natural Background -- SECTION II: RELIGIOUS ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Aboriginal Spirituality -- The Environmental Crisis and Jewish Earthways -- Chosen Persons and the Green Ecumenacy: A Possible Christian Response to the Population Apocalypse -- Islam and the Environment -- Population Pressure, Natural Resources, the Environment, and Hinduism -- Buddhist Resources for Issues of Population and Consumption in Relationship with the Environment -- Chinese Religions -- SECTION III: SECULAR ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Prescriptions from Religious and Secular Ethics for Breaking the Impoverishment/Environmental Degradation Cycle -- Ethics, Family Planning, the Status of Women, and The Environment -- Projected Population Patterns, North-South Relations, and the Environment -- SECTION IV: ECONOMIC, LEGAL, AND DEEP ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Environmental Degradation and the Religion of the Market -- International Law, Population Pressure, and the Environment: North-



South Relations -- The Northern Consumption Issue After Rio and the Role of Religion in Environmentalism -- SECTION V: RESPONSES FROM BUSINESS, RELIGION, AND GOVERNMENTS -- Possible Response Options for Corporations -- Possible Response Options for Religions -- Possible Response Options for Governments -- SECTION VI: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

Sommario/riassunto

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