This terrific book delivers mostly on the subtitle. Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics home springer. Almost all textbooks and anthologies on environmental ethics. A dialogue of main concepts in ethical precept in half i is adopted by an software of these concepts all through various important environmental points harking back to air air pollution, inhabitants, animals in half ii.
Ethics is defined as a set of rules or principles that are followed by a broadly recognized race or group lawyer, writers etc. Dieter birnbacher, heinrich heine university, dusseldorf attfield, for decades a. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. This latest addition to the acclaimed oxford readings in philosophy series offers a selection of some of the best articles on ethics and the environment written in the last twenty years. The second edition of environmental ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. According to environmental ethics, humans are part of the natural community rather than managers of it. Introducing contemporary environmental ethics oxford handbooks. Environmental ethics stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Environmental ethics ethics international press ltd. The journal of agricultural and environmental ethics presents articles on. It does not necessarily represent the opinion of cnw nor shall cnw be liable for any posted comments. There are several distinctive features of environmental ethics that deserve our attention.
Environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting. Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition. A sustainable ethic is an environmental ethic by which people treat the earth as if its resources are limited. This collection of papers is the fourth in a series of books from rushsap1, unesco bangkok offering asiapacific perspectives on ethics, each focusing on. For a good summary of environmental ethics as it relates to land use planning i recommend reading chapter 7 of the book on land use ethics by timothy beatley ethical duties to the environment. List of books and articles about environmental ethics.
This comprehensive international book on environmental issues and ethics unites best ideas with best practices for global corporate and social responsibility. Environmental ethics an overview sciencedirect topics. So when we talk about environmental ethics, we hope to define certain set rules and principles that should be followed in consideration with the environment. Such an ethic places limits on human activities such as uncontrolled resource use that may adversely affect the natural community. Environmental ethics, fifth edition provides shortterm however in depthranging introduction to issues with environmental ethics and primary schools of thought inside the topic. Environmental ethics and dietary choice 0 likes nonhuman primates have been crowded out of diminishing forests, hunted for food or medicine, kidnapped for the lucrative pettourist trade, and bred for science. A more homocentric or shallow ecology approach focuses on the worth of the environment to people. Focusing on the philosophical issues underlying this key topic, the contributions cover duties to future people, resource conservation, species and wilderness preservation, the relevance of ecology to ethics, ecofeminism, and the tension between political liberalism and environmentalism. This bulletin board is an area where neighbors can post comments and concerns. Asiapacific perspectives on environmental ethics unesco digital. This is clearly the best introductory book in environmental ethics to date. This book focuses on underexplored and often neglected issues in contemporary african environmental philosophy and ethics, and addresses critical issues. African environmental ethics a critical reader munamato.
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