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Our vision: The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment will continue to be a world leader in scholarship addressing social and ecological dimensions of natural resources and the environment to improve environmental sustainability.
Our Mission: The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment creates knowledge and facilitates learning to improve society’s stewardship of the environment and promote a conservation ethos for a sustainable planet.
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(formerly the Human Dimensions Research Unit)
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Animal rights, classical Liberalism, wilderness preservation, etc.; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-18)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-18)Animal rights, classical Liberalism, wilderness preservation, intergenerational justice, Derek Parfit, Peter Singer, Tom Regan, equality, speciesism, the image of God, religion in the public sphere, Robert Audi, Kramnick ... -
Reinhold Niebuhr, history of Judaism and Christianity, etc.; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-13)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-13)Reinhold Niebuhr, history of Judaism and Christianity, Paul's letter to the Galatians, God's love, freedom, writer's block at Harvard. -
The God Who Plays; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-11)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-11)The God Who Plays. -
Sin, determinism, human responsibility, Reinhold Niebuhr; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-06)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-06)Sin, determinism, human responsibility, Reinhold Niebuhr. -
What do Christianity and Judaism have to say about environmental ethics?; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-04)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-04)What do Christianity and Judaism have to say about environmental ethics, Plato, the ancient Hebrews, Deuteronomy 26:1-9, Joshua, the Decalogue, Emil Brunner. -
Wendell Berry, hyper-individualism, and faithfulness to each other and to the environment; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-30)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-30)Wendell Berry, hyper-individualism and faithfulness to each other and to the environment, the environmental effect of social pathologies, the interrelatedness of things, David Blankenhorn, fatherlessness. -
Stanley Hauerwas on Iris Murdoch: running commentary; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-28)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-28)Running commentary on Stanley Hauerwas on Iris Murdoch, the concepts of freedom, humility, and love. -
The limitations of rationalism in ethics, male and female perspectives; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-09)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-09)The limitations of rationalism in ethics, male and female perspectives, Carol Gilligan, modern feminism, the environmental effect of social pathologies. -
Science in the context of an absence of transcendent authority; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-07)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-07)Science in the context of an absence of transcendent authority, the need for authoritative community, a functional view of religion, Emil Durkheim, the Big Questions, Wilfred Cantwell Smith. -
Science, knowledge, and nature; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-02)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-02)Allen Wood Relativism, indoctrination in K-12 schools, Ian Barbour, what motivates scientists, William Leiss The Domination of Nature, science as knowledge for knowledge's sake (middle ages) vs. knowledge for the sake of ...