This collection of new essays by eleven distinguished environmental philosophers addresses two main questions: first, whether environmental philosophy and ethics should be seen as a form of applied philosophy or as something else, perhaps best called practical philosophy; and second, how environmental philosophy is practiced in human life, especially in the lives of academics.

Contributions by: J Baird Callicott, Timothy Casey, Lester Embrece, Irene J. Klaver, Don E. Marietta, Ullrich Melle, Bryan G. Norton, Kate Rawles, Gary E. Varner, Richard A. Watson, Peter S. Wenz