Water ethics: foundational readings for students and professionals

Part 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. Water Ethics and Water Management / Jeremy J. Schmidt

Part 2. Dominion and the Human Claim to Water

Chapter 2. Editors Introduction

Chapter 3. Byzantine Heritage His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Chapter 4. Water Ethics Perspectives in the Arab Region / Faraj Al-Awar / Mohammad J. Abdulrazzak / Radwan Al-Weshah

Chapter 5. Which Rights Are Right? Water Rights, Culture, and Underlying Values / Rajendra Pradhan / Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Chapter 6. Women, Water, Energy: An Ecofeminist Approach / Greta Gaard

Part 3. Utilitarianism

Chapter 7. Editors' Introduction

Chapter 8. Water as a Resource / William J. McGee

Chapter 9. Priming the Invisible Pump / Terry L. Anderson / Donald R. Leal

Chapter 10. Surface Water and Groundwater Regulation and Use: An Ethical Perspective / Steven E. Kraft

Chapter 11. Understanding Transfers: Community Rights and the Privatization of Water / Joseph L. Sax

Chapter 12. A Basis for Environmental Ethics / Augustin Berque

Part 4. Water as a Community Resource

Chapter 13. Editors' Introduction

Chapter 14. Water Rights in the Commons / Elinor Ostrom / Paul C. Stern / Thomas Dietz

Chapter 15. Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: General Principles for Successfully Managing the Commons / Paul Trawick

Chapter 16. The Legal Status of Water in Quebec / Madeleine Cantin Cumyn

Chapter 17. The Rebirth of Environmentalism as Pragmatic, Adaptive Management / Bryan G Norton

Part 5. Water: Life's Common Wealth

Chapter 18. Editors' Introduction

Chapter 19. Are There any Natural Resources? / Peter G. Brown

Chapter 20. The Missing Piece: A Water Ethic / Sandra Postel

Chapter 21. Fish First! the Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management / Carolyn Merchant

Part 6. Ethics in Complex Systems

Chapter 22. Editors' Introduction

Chapter 23. Ecohydrosolidarity: a New Ethics for Stewardship of Value-Adding Rainfall / Malin Falkenmark / Carl Folke

Chapter 24. An Ethic of Compassionate Retreat / Peter G. Brown / Jeremy J. Schmidt

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Advisory Board

Index