Contains essays that explore non-reciprocated relationships with regard to the environment. This work includes contributions that discuss moral issues that arise when decisions by individuals, corporations, or governments cause changes in the environment that affect those who do not participate in the decisions.

These original essays explore non-reciprocated relationships with regard to the environment. The contributors philosophers who are known for their writing on environmental concerns discuss moral issues that arise when decisions by individuals, corporations, or governments cause changes in the environment that affect those who do not participate in the decisions. Among the topics addressed are population expansion, accumulation of toxic wastes, pollution of air and water, as well as the effects of actions by the "upstream," current generation on "downstream," future generations. Donald Scherer is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Molding of Norms and Environments
Donald Scherer
2. On the Rights of Future Generations
Ernest Partridge
3. Managing the Future: Public Policy, Scientific Uncertainty, and Global Warming
Dale Jamieson
4. Models, Scientific Method, and Environmental Ethics
Kristine Shader-Frechette
5. Can Today's International System Handle Transboundary Environmental Problems?
Daniel Barstow Magraw and James W. Nickel
6. Takings, Just Compensation, and the Environment
Murk Sagoff
7. The Consequences of My Action, Your Action, and the Company's Action
Burt Gruzalski
8. Two Types of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Alan Gewirth
About the Contributors
Index