Pojman, Louis P. and Pojman, Paul. (2007). Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application. Wadsworth Publishing, 5th edition.

The most comprehensive introduction to environmental ethics available, ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS offers students a current look at the issues and topics that dominate the field today, organized into two main parts that take students seamlessly from theory to application. This Fifth Edition of the Pojmans' popular anthology, like its predecessors, includes numerous topic areas not covered in other anthologies-including an all-new section on Climate Change. Featuring articles carefully selected for clarity and accessibility, the text follows a dialogic pro-con format presenting divergent positions on each topic, ensuring that students are both exposed to and understand both sides of every topic so they can develop their own informed positions.

The bulk of royalties for this book are donated to groups dedicated to protecting the environment, such as the Wilderness Society and the Sierra Club.

DesJardin, Joseph. (2005). Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy. Wadsworth Publishing, 4th edition.

Book Description: How can you use philosophical to make progress toward solving environmental problems? ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY introduces you to ethical theory in new and easily understood ways. But most of all, this environmental ethics textbook shows you how we can work together to build a better future.

About the Author: Joseph DesJardins (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame) is professor of philosophy at the College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota.

He specializes in business ethics and environmental ethics and has also published Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics (Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, 2005) with John McCall.

Turner, Trudy R. (Ed.) (2005). Biological Anthropology and Ethics: From Repatriation to Genetic Identity. State University of New York Press.

Biological anthropologists face an array of ethical issues as they engage in fieldwork around the world. In this volume human biologists, geneticists, paleontologists, and primatologists confront their involvement with, and obligations to, their research subjects, their discipline, society, and the environment. Those working with human populations explore such issues as who speaks for a group, community consultation and group consent, the relationship between expatriate communities and the community of origin, and disclosing the identity of both individuals and communities. 

Those working with skeletal remains discuss issues that include access to and ownership of fossil material. Primatologists are concerned about the well-being of their subjects in laboratory and captive situations, and must address yet another set of issues regarding endangered animal populations and conservation in field situations. The first comprehensive account of the ethical issues facing! biological anthropologists today, Biological Anthropology and Ethics opens the door for discussions of ethical issues in professional life.

Gowthorpe, Catherine and John Blake (1998) Ethical Issues in Accounting: Professional Ethics. New York: Routledge

“[…] Accounting is an area of human activity which tends to be regarded by some of its practitioners as neutral and value-free, a reporting function which requires the application of complex technical requirements but no moral involvement beyond adherence to a set of precepts in the form of an ethical code. Practising accountants do not tend to look beyond the narrow confines of the code to consider their roles as moral agents; in fact, it seems likely that they do not consider accounting to be an activity that really has any substantial moral dimension, even though in other areas of their lives they may be deeply concerned with moral issues. This attitude has been identified as ‘ethical dissonance’ by McPhail and Gray (1996) whose empirical work indicates that accounting students, and by implication accountants, regard accounting as a morally neutral area, a ‘separate category of experience’.

However, it is clear to some critics, at least, that accounting is very much more important than the technical standards for undertaking it might imply, and that it has a significant role in the construction of reality in the mainstream (e.g. Hines 1988). It is difficult to overestimate the significance of its role in constructing economic reality because the vocabulary and conventions of accounting permeate our experience of everyday reality so thoroughly. In the United Kingdom of recent years, terms such as ‘profitability’, ‘audit’, ‘cost-cutting’, ‘required rate of return’, ‘UK plc’, ‘uneconomic’, ‘bottom line’ and ‘earnings’ have resonated to an unprecedented degree through the lives of many. The vocabulary of the primary accounting statements has acquired a high degree of authority and acceptance, even where the individual terms are unclear or are misunderstood. Moreover, the language of the private sector has entered the public sector, where the ideas and terminology of accountability and audit have been thoroughly absorbed. The idea of audit has been exported from its financial accounting context into an unprecedently wide range of settings (Power 1997), as a means of responding to risk.

These developments may be part of a profound movement in society, the true significance of which may not emerge until we can look back with the benefit of hindsight. Accountants themselves can hardly be expected to bear all the responsibility for the fact that the tools and terminology of their craft have been borrowed and transplanted into so many different organisational and societal contexts. Nevertheless, the outcome is such that accounting’s role as a constructor of reality has acquired an unprecedented importance.” (From the Introduction, pp. 1-2)