Robert Zimdahl
The is and ought of agricultural ethics
Benefiting the Libraries Endowment for the College of Agricultural Sciences
Robert Zimdahl is Professor Emeritus of Weed Science in the Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management of the College of Agriculture. He has published more than 80 professional articles and 6 books during his 37 career at CSU. He received the Pennock Award, the University excellence in undergraduate teaching, and two Fulbright awards and is a Fellow of two professional societies. In the latter part of his career he created the CSU course on Agricultural Ethics and shifted his research focus from weed science to agricultural ethics.
Recommended Reading: (Available at CSU Libraries)
Zimdahl, R. L. 2006. Agriculture's Ethical Horizon. Academic Press. San diego, CA. 256 pp.
Berry, T. 1990. The Dream of the Earth. Sierra Club Books. San Francisco, CA. 247 pp.
Thompson, P. B. 1995. The spirit of the soil: Agriculture and environmental ethics. Routledge. New York, NY. 196pp.
Lehman, H. 1995. Rationality and ethics in agriculture. Univ. of Idaho Press. Moscow, ID. 228 pp.
Berry, W. 1977. The unsettling of America: Culture and agriculture. Avon Books. New York, NY. 228 pp.