Joan E Schaffner
Biographic Data
| ID | 6627136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan E Schaffner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaffner |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFFNER J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unbridled Right to Reproduce for Domesticated Animals—More Harm Than Good? A Reply to Siemieniec
Unrestricted reproductive rights for domesticated animals, including the right to roam freely, will have serious consequences for domesticated animals in today's world. While political and legal theories focus on population control to justify fertility restrictions, they do so to save animals’ lives, and one consequence of restricting domesticated animals’ reproductive rights is many more animal deaths. Further, theorists have explored whether po…
Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction
In Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction, Peter Christie, an award-winning science journalist, blames “pets” and the “pet industry” for replacing the role of nature in human experience and devastating free-living animal populations and attributes this to our misplaced biophilia. Christie explains that “biophilia,” popularized by Edward O. Wilson, “is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings t…
Managing Our Relationship with Free-Roaming Cats in Zoopoland
Debate over the proper management of our relationship with free-roaming cats has escalated based on concerns over impacts on biodiversity and public health, with some calling for their eradication. It is often waged between animalists, primarily focused on the interests of the individual animal, and traditional conservationists, primarily focused on preserving native species and biodiversity. An ethical paradigm that accounts for the interests of…
Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors
Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors explores the hotly contested debate surrounding outdoor cats, free-living animals, and humans’ role in nature—a debate grounded in conflicting science, ethics, and public policy goals. The authors attempt to sort out the data and values related to this debate and find common ground. However, in so doing, they create several false equivalencies. More helpful to those working on the g…
Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Dangerous Book
Cat Wars is a dangerous book that declares war on all free-roaming cats. Filled with hyperbole and exaggerated statistics, the book argues that cats are a danger to humans, birds, and other free-living animals and should be eradicated from the landscape—a devastating, expensive, inhumane, and useless result. This review exposes the flaws in the authors’ analysis and ethical approach and redirects the dialogue toward an ethic that protects all ani…
Animal Law in Australasia: A Universal Dialogue of “Trading Off” Animal Welfare
Animal Law in Australasia: Continuing the Dialogue provides a comprehensive, thoughtprovoking discussion and analysis of animal law in Australasia while critiquing the existing paradigm that presumes human desire always outweighs animal suffering and proposing reforms to provide better legal protection for all animals. The authors of each chapter, experts in relevant fields such as academia, private practice, and government, describe the theoreti…
International Issues in Animal Law: The Impact of International Environmental and Economic Law Upon Animal Interests and Advocacy
Book Review| April 01 2015 International Issues in Animal Law: The Impact of International Environmental and Economic Law Upon Animal Interests and Advocacy International Issues in Animal Law: The Impact of International Environmental and Economic Law Upon Animal Interests and Advocacy. By Peter L. Fitzgerald. (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. 306 pp. + Teacher’s Manual, 251 pp. Paperback, $45.00. ISBN 978-1-59460-770-7.). Joan Schaffne…
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International Issues in Animal Law: The Impact of International Environmental and Economic Law Upon Animal Interests and Advocacy
Book Review| April 01 2015 International Issues in Animal Law: The Impact of International Environmental and Economic Law Upon Animal Interests and Advocacy International Issues in Animal Law: The Impact of International Environmental and Economic Law Upon Animal Interests and Advocacy. By Peter L. Fitzgerald. (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. 306 pp. + Teacher’s Manual, 251 pp. Paperback, $45.00. ISBN 978-1-59460-770-7.). Joan Schaffne…
Animal Law in Australasia: A Universal Dialogue of “Trading Off” Animal Welfare
Animal Law in Australasia: Continuing the Dialogue provides a comprehensive, thoughtprovoking discussion and analysis of animal law in Australasia while critiquing the existing paradigm that presumes human desire always outweighs animal suffering and proposing reforms to provide better legal protection for all animals. The authors of each chapter, experts in relevant fields such as academia, private practice, and government, describe the theoreti…
Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Dangerous Book
Cat Wars is a dangerous book that declares war on all free-roaming cats. Filled with hyperbole and exaggerated statistics, the book argues that cats are a danger to humans, birds, and other free-living animals and should be eradicated from the landscape—a devastating, expensive, inhumane, and useless result. This review exposes the flaws in the authors’ analysis and ethical approach and redirects the dialogue toward an ethic that protects all ani…
Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors
Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors explores the hotly contested debate surrounding outdoor cats, free-living animals, and humans’ role in nature—a debate grounded in conflicting science, ethics, and public policy goals. The authors attempt to sort out the data and values related to this debate and find common ground. However, in so doing, they create several false equivalencies. More helpful to those working on the g…
Managing Our Relationship with Free-Roaming Cats in Zoopoland
Debate over the proper management of our relationship with free-roaming cats has escalated based on concerns over impacts on biodiversity and public health, with some calling for their eradication. It is often waged between animalists, primarily focused on the interests of the individual animal, and traditional conservationists, primarily focused on preserving native species and biodiversity. An ethical paradigm that accounts for the interests of…
Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction
In Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction, Peter Christie, an award-winning science journalist, blames “pets” and the “pet industry” for replacing the role of nature in human experience and devastating free-living animal populations and attributes this to our misplaced biophilia. Christie explains that “biophilia,” popularized by Edward O. Wilson, “is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings t…
Unbridled Right to Reproduce for Domesticated Animals—More Harm Than Good? A Reply to Siemieniec
Unrestricted reproductive rights for domesticated animals, including the right to roam freely, will have serious consequences for domesticated animals in today's world. While political and legal theories focus on population control to justify fertility restrictions, they do so to save animals’ lives, and one consequence of restricting domesticated animals’ reproductive rights is many more animal deaths. Further, theorists have explored whether po…
Environmental ethics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · History (3 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)