Faculty Development Workshop

Integrating Ethics Into Environmental Studies:

Ethics, Science, and Civic Responsibility
May 24-27, 2004
New York University

Cosponsored by:

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs

Center for Humans and Nature
Environmental Conservation Education Program, NYU

Sunday, May 23, 2004

12:00 – 6:00 p.m. Check-in at Weinstein Dorms, 5-11 University Place.

6:30 p.m. Welcome Dinner at Old Town Bar – meet in front of dorms

Monday, May 24, 2004

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Introductions

Chair for the Day: Joanne Bauer, Carnegie Council

10:00 – 12:00 p.m. Ethics

Questions: What is ethics? How has ethics developed historically as a field of

study in the West? What counts as an ethical claim or evaluation of a problem
as opposed to a prudential claim or evaluation? How can an understanding of
the ethical dimensions of a problem change our assessment of that problem?

Presenters: Katie McShane - North Carolina State University

Elizabeth Harman - New York University

Readings: Michael Tooley, “Abortion and Infanticide” Philosophy and Public

Affairs 2:1, 1972.
 Dale Jamieson, “Method and Moral Inquiry” in Blackwell
Companion to Ethics, Singer (ed.), 1993

Clark Wolf, “Environmental Ethics and Marine Ecosystems” in

Values at Sea, Dallmeyer (ed.), 2003.

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Environmental Ethics

Questions: What is environmental ethics? How is it alike and different from

other sub-fields of applied ethics? What debates have shaped the evolution of
environmental ethics as a field of research? What kinds of problems have
environmental ethicists addressed in their work and what problems have they
neglected? Has environmental ethics contributed to the resolution of
environmental problems?

Presenters: Andrew Light - New York University

Frederik Kaufman - Ithaca College

Readings: Andrew Light, “Contemporary Environmental Ethics: From

Metaethics to Public Philosophy” Metaphilosophy 33:4, 2002.

Clare Palmer, “An Overview of Environmental Ethics” in

Environmental Ethics: An Anthology, Light and Rolston (eds.),
2003.

Robin Attfield, “Environmental Problems and Humanity” and

“Some Central Debates” in Environmental Ethics: An Overview
for the 21st Century, 2003.
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Coffee

3:45 – 5:45 p.m. International Dimensions of Environmental Ethics

Questions: Is the understanding of the ethical dimensions of environmental

problems substantially different from place to place? Does the Western bias of
the field of environmental ethics hinder its ability to understand local
environmental questions? What are the prospects for an ethical understanding
of global environmental questions which can fairly transcend these local
differences?

Presenters: Dale Jamieson - New York University

Joanne Bauer - Carnegie Council

Readings: Dale Jamieson, “Global Environmental Justice” in Morality’s

Progress, 2003.

Dale Jamieson, “Climate Change and Global Environmental

Justice” in Changing the Atmosphere, Miller and Edwards (eds),
2001.

Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence and Morality” in World Hunger

and Morality, Aiken and LaFollette (eds.), 1995.

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 Go to www.carnegiecouncil.org/dialogue to download a PDF of
the latest issue of Human Rights Dialogue on environmental
rights.

7:00 p.m. Dinner at Surya Restaurant - 302 Bleecker Street (7th Ave. and Grove St.)

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

Chair for the Day: Andrew Light, New York University

9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Ethics, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

Questions: Are there ethical positions suggested by the sciences of ecology and
evolutionary biology? If so, what are the implications of this form of ethics for the
direction of environmental ethics as a field of research or for our priorities for the
teaching of ethics in environmental studies programs?

Presenters: Strachan Donnelley - Center for Humans and Nature, NYC

Eleanor Sterling - American Museum of Natural History

Readings: Strachan Donnelley, “The Art of Moral Ecology” Ecosystem

Health 1:3, 1995.

Strachan Donnelley, “Leopold’s Darwin: Climbing Mountains,

Developing Land” in Good in Nature and Humanity, Kellert and
Farnham (eds), 2002.

Dustin Penn, “The Evolotionary Roots of our Environmental

Problems” Quarterly Review of Biology 78:3, 2003.

Eleanor Sterling et. al., “Why Should You Care about Biological
Diversity?” 2003.

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Coffee

11:15 – 1:15 p.m. Ecological Citizenship

Questions: How can the ethical dimensions of environmental problems be

integrated most effectively into public life? What is the best framework, and what
are the best institutions, for encouraging a set of collective responsibilities toward
our local and global environments? Can this possible set of ecological
responsibilities be made compatible with other human social responsibilities?

Presenters: Deane Curtin - Gustavus Adolphus College

J. Ronald Engel - Center for Humans and Nature, Chicago

Readings: Deane Curtin, “Ecological Citizenship” in Handbook of

Citizenship Studies, Isin and Turner (eds.), 2003.

Ron Engel – see list of suggested readings on CD.

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 Andrew Light, “Globalization and the Need for an Urban
Environmentalism” in Implicating Empire, Aronowitz and
Gautney (eds.), 2003.

1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch

2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Politically Engaged Environmental Studies

Questions: How can the gap between the academic world of environmental
research and pedagogy and the world of environmental advocacy best be
overcome? How can we create opportunities for those in the academy working
on environmental issues to better serve those in public agencies and NGO’s who
grapple with environmental problems on the ground? What structures of
environmental studies programs better prepare students to step into positions of
responsibility as environmental advocates?

Presenters: William Shutkin - Orton Family Foundation

Dana Beach - South Carolina Coastal Conservation League

Readings: William Shutkin, chapters 2, 3, and 7 in The Land That Could

Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First
Century, 2000.

6:00 p.m. Dinner at the Carnegie Council (170 East 64th Street) with Robert Sullivan, award
winning journalist and author of The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on
the Edge of a City (Anchor 1999), A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village
Did What No One Thought It Could (Scribner 2002), and Rats: Observations on
the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Bloomsbury
2004).

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

Chair for the Day: Strachan Donnelley, Center for Humans and Nature, NYC

9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Participant Panel 1: Local and Regional Environmental Issues

Presenters: Kathryn Flynn - School of Forestry, Auburn University

Christine Keiner - STS, Rochester Institute of Technology
Zev Trachtenberg - Philosophy, University of Oklahoma

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break

11:15 – 1:15 p.m. Participant Panel 2: Environmental Justice

Presenters: David Schlosberg - Political Science, Northern Arizona University

Troy Abel - Public and Environmental Affairs,
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Melissa Checker - Anthropology, University of Memphis

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch

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2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Participant Panel 3: International Politics and the Environment

Presenters: Pamela Chasek - International Studies, Manhattan College

Amity Doolittle - Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Paul Wapner - School of International Service,
American University

4:45- 6:30 pm Developing Simulations as Pedagogical Tools

Venue change: 82 Washington Square East in Pless Lounge

Presenters: Christos Kyrou and Kathleen Young, ICONS project, University

of Maryland

"Simulations as a Teaching Tool for Environmental Ethics:

The ICONS Approach"
This presentation will provide an overview of why active-learning
methods are especially appropriate for helping students to learn about
ethics. The presenters will explain the framework for effective and
successful role-play simulations that has been developed by the ICONS
Project at the University of Maryland, and will involve participants in
a demonstration of one simulation that highlights issues relevant to
environmental ethics.

7:30 p.m. Dinner at I Coppi Restaurant - 432 East 9th Street (Between A and 1st Avenue)

Thursday, May 27, 2004

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

Chair for the Day: Laura Krinock, Center for Humans and Nature, NYC

9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Pedagogical Approaches

Questions: What instructional approaches are most effective for introducing

students to the ethical dimensions of environmental problems? What
approaches are most effective for encouraging students to use their
understanding of environmental ethics later in their professional life? Note: This
will be a session for sharing pedagogical approaches facilitated by Professor
Gruen.

Presenter/moderator: Lori Gruen - Wesleyan University

Readings: John Lemons, “The Role of the University, Scientists, and

Educators in the Promotion of Scientific Literacy” in A
Colloquium on Environment, Ethics, and Education, Jickling
(ed.), 1996.

David Whiteman, “Teaching Green: Experimenting with Green

Values in the Classroom” PS: Political Science and Politics,
2003.

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11:00 – 11:15 p.m. Coffee

11:15 – 1:00 p.m. Organizational Aspects of Environmental Studies Programs

Questions: How are environmental studies programs built and how should they
be organized so as to include work on the ethical dimensions of environmental
problems? What are the most effective ways to integrate environmental studies
in the larger life of a college or university campus?

Presenters: William Throop - Green Mountain College

John Van Buren – Fordham University

Readings: Chet Bowers, “Implications of Bioregionalism for a Radical

Theory of Education” in Elements of a Post-Liberal Theory of
Education, 1987.

David Orr, “Educating a Constituency for the Long Haul” in Earth

in Mind, 1994.

John Van Buren – see list of suggested websites on campuses

and environmental responsibility on CD.

1:00 p.m. Lunch and Departures

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 Faculty Development Workshop

Integrating Ethics Into Environmental Studies:

Ethics, Science, and Civic Responsibility

May 24-27, 2004

New York University

Participant Bios

Troy Abel is Assistant Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at the

University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. His teaching and research interests focus
on the dynamic tensions of environmental science and democratic politics in a
variety of arenas including community-based environmental protection,
environmental justice, and international conservation projects. He teaches
graduate and undergraduate courses on environmental science and policy, state
and local government, public administration, and research methods. Beginning
with his dissertation, one strand of his scholarship focuses on the development of
environmental strategies in U.S. communities. He is also interested in U.S.
conflicts over environmental justice policy and has been developing both
quantitative and qualitative studies to examine the spatial distribution of polluting
industries and community responses to them.

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colorado

College. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Yale University, and as
a graduate student at the University of Chicago. While finishing at Chicago, he
was a researcher at the Erikson Institute for Study in Child Development. His
dissertation work was on humanitarian conscience, and included a section on
ecological conscience developed from an article published on practical reasoning
and ecological humanity. Currently, he is writing a book aimed for
undergraduates in Rowman & Littlefield’s environmental philosophy series about
senses of ecological humanity. He is also working on another book on moral life
in the age of human rights, aimed at undergraduates confused about what it
means to be part of global civil society. Next year, he will begin a new position at
the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

Pamela Chasek is Assistant Professor of Government and Director of

International Studies at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, where she
recently started an interdisciplinary minor in Environmental Studies. She is also
co-founder and editor of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on
United Nations environment and development negotiations, which has been
covering various UN processes since 1992. She is the author of Earth
Negotiations: Analyzing thirty years of environmental diplomacy (UNU Press,
2001), co-author of Global Environmental Politics, 3rd edition, with Gareth Porter
and Janet Welsh Brown (Westview, 2000), and editor of The Global Environment
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in the 21st Century: Prospects for International Cooperation (UNU Press, 2000).
Other recent publications address post-agreement negotiation in the ozone
depletion regime, professional cultures in the negotiation of the Convention to
Combat Desertification, and negotiating capacity and strategies of developing
countries.

Melissa Checker is Assistant Professor of Applied Anthropology at the

University of Memphis. Her research focuses on environmental justice activism
in the United States. Through this research, she became involved as a
participant in the movement herself. In addition to writing several articles on the
topic, she recently co-edited Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power and Public
Life (Columbia, 2004). A second book, which is an ethnography of
environmental justice activism, will be published in 2005.

Amity Doolittle completed her Ph.D. at the Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies in 1999 where she has continued on the faculty. Her
research focuses on how control over and access to natural resources is defined,
negotiated and contested by society and state, specifically in Southeast Asia.
Her work uses an interdisciplinary approach combining perspectives from
anthropology, political science, environmental history, and political ecology to
explore property relations and conflicts over resources use. In 2004 her book,
Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo): A Century of Native
Struggles over Land Rights, 1881-1996 will be published by the University of
Washington Press. Her current research focuses on the impact of global
discourses of conservation and economic growth on local land use practices,
specifically on social inequality and the maldistribution of wealth, resources, and
hazardous waste.

Katheryn Doran is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College

(Clinton, New York). She received a B.A. in French and Philosophy at the
University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (working on G.E. Moore and skepticism with Jay
Rosenberg). Working primarily in analytic philosophy, she participated in a
National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar on realism at Harvard
with Hilary Putnam in 1987, and one on Moore and Wittgenstein at UCSD with
Avrum Stroll in 1998. Partially under the influence of Bill McKibben, her interests
turned to environmental ethics two years ago, and since then she has developed
her first course on environmental ethics. She is currently on the committee
working on creating an environmental studies major at Hamilton.

Howard Drossman is Director of the Environmental Science Program at

Colorado College. He received his B.S. in chemistry from U.C. Berkeley in 1981
and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
in 1992. In the interim he studied environmental engineering at Stanford
University while working as an environmental chemist at SRI International, where
he studied the fate of pollutants in aquatic systems. In Environmental Science at
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Colorado College he teaches classes in Global Bioethics, Environmental Ethics,
Water, Air, and Energy and the Environment. In 1998, he and his wife Julie
Francis co-founded the Catamount Institute, a non-profit environmental field
school in Woodland Park, Colorado where research, education and leadership
programs promote land conservation and inspire ecological stewardship.
Drossman’s current environmental research is in the areas of interdisciplinary
curriculum development, community-based approaches to learning
environmental science, chemical ecology and aquatic chemistry.

Kathryn Flynn is Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the School of

Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. She teaches Forest
Watershed Management, Environmental Ethics, and a directed study in Wetlands
Delineation. She holds a B.S. degree in Botany from Auburn and an M.S. and
Ph.D. (1992) from Louisiana State University’s Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute
in the School of the Coast and the Environment. She serves as a campus-based
resource for County Agents in the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. In
that role, she develops programming and publications in the areas of wetlands,
water quality, and youth and adult environmental education. She was recently
selected as the Mosley Environmental Professor and in that role coordinates the
W. Kelly Mosley Environmental Awards for Achievements in Forestry, Wildlife
and Related Resources, a program that recognizes “unsung heroes of the
environment.” She is married to an attorney and has one daughter who is 9
years old.

Mark Fowler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of William and

Mary. He teaches ethics, social and political philosophy, environmental ethics,
human rights, and various courses in the history of philosophy. When William
and Mary’s new Environmental Studies/Science program was inaugurated two
years ago, he became principally responsible for teaching the value dimension of
environmental questions in its curriculum. His current work is focused on the
“Earth Rights Movement.” Its basic tenet can be simply summarized: Protecting
the environment and protecting human rights are interdependent, such that
meaningful or lasting advances in one are impossible without analogous
advances in the other. He is also politically involved with the pro-democracy
movement for Burma, and now spends much of his summer each year in Burma
and Thailand, gathering information about democracy or human rights activities
within these two countries.

Cliff Fox is Assistant Director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Virginia
Commonwealth University, where he directs the undergraduate program and
coordinates the environmental policy track of the M.S. in Environmental Studies.
He began his interest in the environment while growing up in a beachside
community in northeast Florida. After earning his B.A. from the University of
Florida in 1973, he returned to that institution to study environmental law and
land use planning, completing his J.D. in 1979. For the next eight years he
earned his living teaching high school in his hometown while using his legal
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training as an environmental advocate, serving on the city planning advisory
board and representing local environmental non-profits. In 1987 he returned to
graduate study at Rutgers University receiving his Ph.D. in political science with
a major in political theory. He teaches an undergraduate honors module in
environmental ethics and the graduate course in environmental ethics. His
research interests are on the problems of policymaking in the face of biological
complexity and the dilemmas of community-based environmental policymaking
by a diverse polity enmeshed in an interdependent planet.

Jennifer Good is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications,

Popular Culture, and Film, at Brock University (Ontario, Canada). Her research
interests include the role of mediated communication (television and the Internet
in particular) in how we understand our relationship with the “unmediated”
environment; the relationship between television, materialism/consumerism and
the maintenance of the status quo; and the communication of specific
environmental issues (climate change in particular). When she finished her
undergraduate degree in international relations at the University of British
Columbia, her plan was to become a wilderness adventure guide. After
volunteering for Pollution Probe (Canada’s oldest environmental organization)
she returned to school to pursue a master’s degree in environmental studies and
communication (focusing on aboriginal philosophy and aboriginal use of
television). After completing this degree she worked as a communication
coordinator at Greenpeace Canada for six years before pursuing her Ph.D. in
environmental communications at Cornell University.

Mark Hammer is Associate Professor of Life Sciences at Wayne State College

(Nebraska). He received a B.S. and a M.S. degree in Forestry from Iowa State
University and Clemson University, respectively, a Ph.D. in Plant Science from
the University of Arkansas, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Hammer’s courses include Environmental
Concerns for General Education, Biology in Society, Botany, and Conservation
Biology. He also involves undergraduates in plant biology-related research
projects. Currently, his main research interest is the potential role of bison as
seed dispersal agents in the Great Plains.

Christine Keiner is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at

the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is completing a history of
Chesapeake oyster conservation politics, as well as articles on the history of
urban rat ecology. Her latest publication is “Modeling Neptune’s Garden: The
Chesapeake Bay Hydraulic Model, 1965-1984” in The Machine in Neptune’s
Garden: Historical Studies on Technology and the Marine Environment, eds.
David van Keuren and Helen Rozwadowski (Science History Publications,
forthcoming in May 2004).

Eric F. Maurer is the Director of Environmental Studies at the University of

Cincinnati, a relatively new unit at the University, where they are currently
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developing a graduate program in Environmental Studies. Previously he held
postdoctoral fellowships with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and as a Fellow
with the American Association for the Advancement of Science where he worked
in the Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency in Washington, DC. He received a B.S. from the University of
Georgia in Psychology and Zoology in 1984, leaving Georgia after a year of
working at the Yerkes Primate Research Lab at Emory University to work on a
M.S. in Ecology at the University of Kentucky. In 1994 he earned his Ph.D. in
Ecology from the University of Kansas. His research interests lie in the area of
evolutionary ecology, focusing on examining the responses of organisms to
environmental changes, and he has worked on these questions in areas ranging
from the Great Plains and Texas to the North Slope of Alaska. Additionally his
research interests include questions at the interface between science, policy and
the law.

John M. Meyer is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at Humboldt

State University in Arcata, California. He has served at the coordinator of an
interdisciplinary M.A. program at Humboldt, focused on the theme of
"Environment and Community." He is the author of Political Nature:
Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Political Thought (MIT, 2001), and
other book chapters and journal articles. During the 2004-2005 academic year
he will be a visiting member at the Institute For Advanced Study, Princeton,
working on a project entitled "Environmentalism as Social Criticism."

David Schlosberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern

Arizona University, where he teaches political theory and environmental politics.
He is also affiliated with the Center for Environmental Sciences and the Center
for Sustainable Environments, and teaches in the Grand Canyon Semester, at
NAU. He has taught environmental political theory as a visiting lecturer at the
London School of Economics and Political Science, and has been a Fulbright
Senior Scholar and Visiting Fellow in the Social and Political Theory Program,
Research School of Social Sciences, at Australian National University. His
books include Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism (Oxford, 1999),
Green States and Social Movements (Oxford, 2003, co-authored with John
Dryzek, Christian Hunold, and David Downes), and Debating the Earth: The
Environmental Politics Reader (Oxford, 1998, new edition due 2005, co-edited
with John Dryzek). Current projects include defining the “justice” of
environmental justice, and web-based participation in environmental rulemaking.

Ken Shockley is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY- University at

Buffalo. His primary research and teaching areas are environmental philosophy,
social and political philosophy, and ethics. In particular, he is interested in the
viability of value pluralism with special attention paid to environmental values, in
the construction of a suitable environmental ethic, in problems of partiality and
the normative requirements associated with group membership, and in issues
involving collective agency, collective constitution, and the possibility that certain
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collectives might constitute moral persons. Shockley received his B.S. from the
University of Wisconsin in Madison in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy; his
M.A. from SUNY Buffalo; and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Washington
University in St. Louis. As a Fulbright scholar he spent 2001 studying at the
Australian National University. He served in the Peace Corps in Malawi and is a
graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School’s Outdoor Educator course.

Zev Trachtenberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of

Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in
1988. He specializes in political philosophy and has written on the issues of
legitimacy, property rights, and the work of Rousseau. He also works on
contributing a philosophical perspective to an interdisciplinary understanding of
environmental issues. He has worked as a researcher on a Water and
Watersheds grant studying management protocols for the Illinois River Basin in
Oklahoma, and he is working with several co-authors on a book on stakeholder
participation in watershed management. His current research focuses on
determining who counts as a stakeholder. He has taught courses on
Environmental Ethics, Religion and the Environment, and Consumption and the
Environment. He is one of he founders and the former Coordinator of the
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment minor within OU’s College of
Arts and Sciences.

Paul Wapner is Associate Professor and Director of the Global Environmental

Politics program in the School of International Service at American University.
He is the author of Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (SUNY,
1996) and co-editor (with Lest Ruiz) of Principled World Politics (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2000). His current research focuses on environmental ethics in a
postmodern world.

Yuri Yamamoto is a Research Associate in the Department of Agricultural and

Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. She is a plant
molecular biologist, receiving her Ph.D. in Genetics from NC State in 1990. In
the last several years, she has become interested in the interface of science and
society and explored bioethics, research ethics, collaborative dispute resolution
and philosophy of science. Currently, she is a recipient of a professional
developmental fellowship from the National Science Foundation Ethics and
Values Studies Program to acquire social science skills to study evolving
perceptions between academic scientists and citizen stakeholder advisors during
the North Carolina Wood Chip Production Study. She also coordinates a
Research Ethics Seminar Series on campus to enhance interdisciplinary
discussions on subjects such as objectivity of science, science and advocacy
and mentorship of graduate students.

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 Faculty Development Workshop

Integrating Ethics Into Environmental Studies:

Ethics, Science, and Civic Responsibility

May 24-27, 2004

New York University

Speakers Bios

Joanne Bauer is Director of Studies at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and

International Affairs, a position she has held since 1995. Prior to holding this
position she was the Council’s Japan Program Director for four years. She is the
principle investigator of a four-country study of values and environmental policy-
making, funded by the National Science Foundation, the United States-Japan
Foundation and The Henry Luce Foundation. Bauer also founded the Council’s
Human Rights Initiative and is the Editor in Chief of the Council’s biannual
magazine, Human Rights Dialogue. Bauer is the co-editor (with Daniel A. Bell) of
The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge, 1999 – now in its
fourth printing), the product of a three-year Council project. Other major
publications include: “Whose Environmental Standards? Clarifying the Issues of
Our Common Future” (Carnegie Council, 1992), and “The Politics and Ethics of
Global Environmental Leadership” (Carnegie Council, 1993). Bauer also serves
as a contributing editor to the Council’s semi-annual journal, Ethics &
International Affairs.

Dana Beach is Executive Director and founder of the South Carolina Coastal
Conservation League. The Conservation League is one of the leading
environmental advocacy groups in the southeast. Over its 12 year life the
Conservation League has successfully developed and implemented rural land
protection strategies and promoted traditional neighborhood zoning codes on the
South Carolina coast. Beach is a past president of the Growth Management
Leadership Alliance, a coalition of 33 organizations promoting land use reform in
the U.S. and Canada. He serves on the advisory boards of NatureServe in
Arlington, Virginia, and the Metropolitan Conservation Alliance in New York. He
was named a Hero for the Planet by Time Magazine for Kids in 1998. Beach has
received a variety of conservation awards including the National Wetlands Award
from EPA and the Environmental Law Institute, the Environmental Awareness
Award from the South Carolina Legislature, and the James S. Dockery Southern
Environmental Leadership Award. Prior to founding the Conservation League,
Beach worked as an environmental aide to former South Carolina Congressman
Arthur Ravenel, Jr. He graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from
Davidson College in North Carolina and received an MBA from the Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Deane Curtin is Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. He is
the author of Chinnagounder’s Challenge: The Question of Ecological
Citizenship (Indiana, 1999) and Greystoke’s Legacy: People and Place in a
World of Bare Necessity (forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield). His major
interest is in the ethical dimensions of cross-cultural conflicts over the
relationships of people to place. Currently, he is writing on the debates over
ethics and population since Malthus.

Strachan Donnelley is the founder and President of the Center for Humans and
Nature. He is a past President of The Hastings Center, and Director of its former
Humans and Nature program. During his time at The Hastings Center,
Donnelley prepared the foundation for The Center for Humans and Nature
through a number of animal and environmental research projects. Among
numerous published articles in philosophy and applied ethics, Donnelley has co-
edited and written for three Special Supplements to the Hastings Center Report:
“Animals, Science, and Ethics” (1990), “The Brave New World of Animal
Biotechnology”(1994), and “Nature, Polis, Ethics: Chicago Regional Planning”
(November-December 1999). He also edited a special edition on the philosopher
and ethicist Hans Jonas, also in the Hastings Center Report (1995). Recently,
he has written several articles on philosophy, evolutionary biology, and ethical
responsibility. Donnelley is also vice-chair, and former chair, of the Gaylord and
Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (Chicago, Illinois) and serves on several boards of
trustees, including The University of Chicago, The Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago, the New School University (New School for Social Research), the
National Humanities Center, Yale University’s Institute for Biospheric Studies,
Inform, and the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity
and Conservation. His dissertation (New School for Social Research, 1977) on
Alfred North Whitehead was entitled “The Living Body: Organisms and Value,”
which earned New School’s Alfred Schutz and Max Lerner Awards.

Ron Engel is Senior Research Associate with the Center for Humans and Nature
in Chicago, charged with responsibility for its North American Global
Responsibilities Program, and Professor Emeritus at Meadville/Lombard
Theological School (affiliated with the University of Chicago). Through his work
with the National Council of Churches and the Unitarian Universalist Association,
and as co-director of the Program on Ecology, Justice, and Faith (funded by the
MacArthur Foundation), he contributed to the emergence of the movement for
eco-justice within the ecumenical religious community. In the late 1990s he
served as a core member of the international drafting committee for The Earth
Charter. In 2003 Engle was appointed co-chair of the Ethics Specialists Group of
the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. He is the author of Sacred Sands:
The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes (Wesleyan, 1983); editor of
Voluntary Associations: Socio-cultural Analyses and Theological Interpretation
(Exploration Press, 1986), co-editor with Joan Gibb Engel of Ethics of
Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response

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(Arizona, 1990), and co-author with Peter Bakken and Joan Engel of Justice,
Ecology, and Christian Faith (Greenwood, 1995).

Lori Gruen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate

Studies in Philosophy at Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut). She is
author of numerous essays on ethics, environmental ethics, political philosophy
and feminist philosophy, and is co-editor (with Dale Jamieson) of Reflecting on
Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy (Oxford, 1997), and Sex,
Morality, and the Law (Routledge, 1997). Her current research in environmental
ethics focuses on the ways in which environmental degradation or advances in
biotechnologies disproportionately harms poor communities, communities of
color, and children. In addition to the familiar concerns about injustice against
certain individuals or communities of people, her work is also concerned with
injustice to non-humans.

Elizabeth Harman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University.

She works in ethics and metaphysics. Recent papers include “Creation Ethics:
The Moral Status of Fetuses and the Ethics and Abortion,” in Philosophy and
Public Affairs, “The Potentiality Problem,” in Philosophical Studies, and
“Vagueness and the Moral Status of Fetuses.”

Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New

York University. Formerly he was Henry R. Luce Professor in Human
Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College, and for nearly twenty years
taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He regularly teaches courses in
ethics, environmental philosophy, environmental justice, philosophy of biology
and mind, and global change. Jamieson’s most recent book is Morality’s
Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford,
2002). He is also the editor or co-editor of seven books, most recently A
Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Blackwell, 2001), and Singer and his
Critics (Blackwell, 1999). He has published more than sixty articles and book
chapters in such journals as Analysis, Environmental Ethics, Environmental
Values, Ethics, Journal of Value Inquiry, Global Environmental Change, Climatic
Change, Risk Analysis, Science, Technology and Human Values, Society and
Natural Resources and Philosophical Studies. He is Associate Editor of Science,
Technology and Human Values, and on the editorial boards of several journals
including Science and Engineering Ethics and the Journal of Applied Animal
Welfare. His research has been funded by the Ethics and Values Studies
Program of the National Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection
Agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Office of Global
Programs in the National Atmospheric and Aeronautics Administration.

Frederik Kaufman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ithaca College in

Ithaca, NY. He is the former coordinator of the college’s environmental studies
program and recently published a textbook entitled, Foundations of

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Environmental Philosophy (McGraw-Hill, 2003). He also publishes in bioethics
and moral and metaphysical problems about death.

Andrew Light is Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy, Director of

the Environmental Conservation Education Program, and Co-Director of the
Applied Philosophy Group at New York University. He is also a Research Fellow
at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy & Public Policy at Lancaster
University (U.K.), and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Sustainable
Development in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Light is the author of over sixty articles and book chapters on environmental
ethics, philosophy of technology, and aesthetics, and has edited or co-edited
fourteen books, including Environmental Pragmatism (Routledge, 1996), Social
Ecology after Bookchin (Guilford, 1998), Philosophies of Place (Rowman &
Littlefield, 1999), Technology and the Good Life? (Chicago, 2000), Beneath the
Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology (MIT, 2000), Moral
and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (MIT, 2003), Animal
Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships (Indiana, 2004), and
The Aesthetics of Everyday Life (Columbia, 2004). Light is also co-editor of the
journal Philosophy and Geography and serves on the editorial boards of
Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, Ecological Restoration, CNS,
Philosophical Practice, and the Journal of Architectural Education. His research
has been funded by the Ethics and Values Studies Program of the National
Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harrington Foundation.
He is currently finishing a book on the ethics of restoration ecology.

Katie McShane is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State

University, where she teaches courses in ethics and environmental ethics. She
received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 2002 and
spent last year as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics and
the Professions. Her main research interests are in the areas of environmental
ethics and ethical theory, and she has done work on ecosystem health,
anthropocentrism, intrinsic value, and neosentimentalist value theory.

William Shutkin is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Orton Family
Foundation, the Vermont and Colorado-based operating foundation that
promotes sustainable community development by engaging citizens in land use
planning. Shutkin is Founder and former President of New Ecology, Inc., a non-
profit environmental organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that
promotes sustainable urban development. He is also Co-founder and former
Executive Director of the Boston-based Alternatives for Community &
Environment, one of the nation’s premier environmental justice law and
education centers. Shutkin taught environmental law and policy in the
Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT from 1999-2004 and was an
Adjunct Professor of Law at Boston College Law School from 1993-2003. He is
the author of The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the
Twenty-First Century (MIT, 2000), which won the 2001 Best Book Award for

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Ecological and Transformational Politics from the American Political Science
Association, was a Time Magazine 2002 Green Century Recommended Book,
and was translated into Hindi for publication in India.

Eleanor Sterling is Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at

the American Museum of Natural History, where she has worked since 1996.
She oversees strategic planning and project development, leads fundraising
efforts, and manages a multidisciplinary staff of over 25. Sterling has more than
15 years of field research experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where
she has conducted surveys behavioral and ecological studies of primates,
whales, and other mammals. She is considered a world authority on the Aye-
Aye (Daubentonia madagascarensis), a nocturnal lemur found only in
Madagascar. Sterling has extensive expertise developing environmental
education programs and professional development workshops, having trained
teachers, students, and U.S. Peace Corps volunteers in a variety of subjects
related to biodiversity conservation. In 2000, Sterling and her partners launched
the Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, an international
initiative to create a comprehensive, open-access set of teaching and learning
materials in support of biodiversity conservation. She received her Ph.D. from
Yale University in Anthropology and Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is
currently writing a book highlighting Vietnam’s remarkable biodiversity, to be
published by Yale University Press in 2004.
William Throop is Provost and Professor of Philosophy and Environmental
Studies at Green Mountain College in Vermont. After receiving his Ph.D. from
Brown University in 1981, with specializations in philosophy of science and
epistemology, he taught for fifteen years at St. Andrews College in North
Carolina. He moved to Green Mountain College in 1996 to help create an
environmental liberal arts curriculum for the institution and to build an
environmental studies program, which he chaired for five years. He has
published a number of articles in environmental ethics and epistemology, and he
recently edited Environmental Restoration: Ethics, Theory and Practice
(Humanity Books, 2000) and co-edited Reason and Culture: An Introduction to
Philosophy (Prentice Hall, 2001). His current research projects focus on value
questions in ecological restoration and on the challenges of educating citizens for
a sustainable society.

John Van Buren is Director of Environmental Studies and Professor of

Philosophy at Fordham University, and the author of works in Continental
Philosophy (including The Young Heidegger, Indiana 1994; Supplements, SUNY
2001) and environmental philosophy (including "Critical Environmental
Hermeneutics," Environmental Ethics 17, 1995). He co-edits (with Baird Callicott)
the SUNY books series Environmental Philosophy and Ethics, and serves on the
Board of Directors for the International Association for Environmental Philosophy.

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