Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis - Softcover

Peppard, Christiana Z.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162698056X ISBN 13: 9781626980563

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2014

Synopsis

An interdisciplinary analysis of the value of fresh water that generates timely and principled conclusions at the intersections of hydrology, ecology, ethics, theology, and Catholic social thought.

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About the Author

Christiana Z. Peppard is Assistant Professor of Theology, Science, and Ethics at Fordham University in New York. Her expertise and publications tend to dwell at the interface of epistemology, historiography, naturalism, feminist theory, theology, and ethics. She received the 2013 Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Review

"This provocative new book is for every person who turns on their tap, and takes a drink of water, without saying a prayer of thanks--in other words, you." --James Martin, S.J., author, My Life with the Saints

"By probing deeply into a crucial environmental problem, Christiana Peppard succeeds in opening up other interlaced and contested environmental debates in global agriculture, climate change, and energy use as well as complex ethical questions about human rights, economics and gender issues. Woven into the account, we find critical theological threads emerging from liberation theology and Roman Catholic social teaching as well as humility about humanity's place in the world, while affirming insights emerging from the natural sciences. This approach serves to make complex environmental issues more accessible to the reader, more manageable, and therefore provides a concrete basis for specific action. I heartily recommend this book for students and researchers alike." --Celia E. Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame

"With Just Water Christiana Peppard has managed to cover a huge amount of material in an extraordinarily thoughtful and nuanced way. The book is a gift to the water community."--Aaron T. Wolf, Ph.D., Director, Program in Transboundary Water Conflict Management and Transformation; Professor of Geography, Oregon State University

"Given our culture of reductionism, which inevitably leads us to examine complex issues in separate disciplines, we are seldom exposed to competent scholarship which engages us in the complex interrelationships of important issues like the availability of fresh water for all in the global family. Christiana Peppard has given us a great gift in this regard by providing us with a practical and scholarly treatise demonstrating how a construction of values, theological insights, familiarity with ecological degradation, and the science of water are all interconnected and essential to solving the problem of sustainable fresh water availability. This is a must-read book for anyone concerned about the availability of fresh water on our common future." -- --Frederick Kirschenmann, author, Cultivating an Ecological Conscience

Edition details

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 162698056X
• ISBN 13: 9781626980563
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230