Ethics Of Environment And Development

Author : J. Ronald Engel,Joan Gibb Engel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Comparative economics
ISBN : IND:30000025826391

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Ethics of Environment and Development by J. Ronald Engel,Joan Gibb Engel Pdf

The purpose of this book is to cast the current debates about environmental conservation and economic development within an ethical framework. Using the concept of sustainability, the distinguished editors, following a broad-ranging survey of the nature and practice of ethical ideas in approaching problems and conflicts in environmental and development issues, have invited scholars from a wide range of cultural, political, religious and philosophical backgrounds to review what constitutes the major ethical issues within their own fields. Contributions from the perspectives of the western liberal democratic societies, the eastern command economies, Japan, Latin America, and Africa provide illuminating and sometimes surprising models for ethical ways of environmental thinking.

Author : Mikael Stenmark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351939706

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Environmental Ethics and Policy-Making by Mikael Stenmark Pdf

Environmental issues raise crucial questions. What should we value? What is our place in nature? What kind of life should we live? How should we interact with other living things? Environmental management and policy-making is ultimately based on answers to these and similar questions, but do we need a new ethics to be able overcome the environmental crisis we face? This book addresses these important questions and explores the values that decision-makers often presuppose in their environmental policy-making. Examining the content of the ethics of sustainable development that the UN and the world’s governments want us to embrace, this book examines alternatives to this kind of ethics, and the differences in basic values that these make in practice. Offering a detailed analysis of the ethics that lie behind current policy-making as it is expressed in documents such as Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration, this unique contribution to the field of environmental studies shows how different environmental ethical theories support different goals of environmental management and generate different policies when it comes to population growth, agriculture, and preservation and management of wilderness areas and endangered species. Mikael Stenmark concludes that policy-makers must take more seriously the value assumptions and conflicts connected to environmental issues, and state explicitly on what values their own proposals and decisions are based and why these should be accepted. Those studying environmental issues or environmental philosophy will find this accessible text invaluable in presenting a clear understanding of environmental ethics and contemporary applications and policies.

Author : J. Lemons,Donald A. Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401584920

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Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy by J. Lemons,Donald A. Brown Pdf

Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable development, particularly in respect to the recommendations contained in Agenda 21. Specifically, the book examines the role, capabilities, and certain strengths and weaknesses of these disciplines and their ethical implications in the context of sustainable development problems. Such an analysis is necessary to determine whether sustainable development problems create important new challenges and problems for government so that, where appropriate, new tools or approaches may be designed to overcome limitations or take advantage of the strengths of current scientific, economic and legal capabilities. Audience: Environmental professionals, whether academic, governmental or industrial, or in the private consultancy sector. Also suitable as an upper level text or reference.

Author : Laura Westra,Patricia Hogue Werhane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847686698

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The Business of Consumption by Laura Westra,Patricia Hogue Werhane Pdf

At the forefront of international concerns about global legislation and regulation, a host of noted environmentalists and business ethicists examine ethical issues in consumption from the points of view of environmental sustainability, economic development, and free enterprise. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : J. Ronald Engel
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0471945285

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Ethics of Environmental Development by J. Ronald Engel Pdf

Author : Pat Brereton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317752684

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Environmental Ethics and Film by Pat Brereton Pdf

Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms. In contemporary society, film has provided a powerful instrument for the moulding of such ethical attitudes. Through a close examination of the medium, Environmental Ethics and Film explores how historical ethical values can be re-imagined and re-constituted for more contemporary audiences. Building on an extensive back-catalogue of eco-film analysis, the author focuses on a diverse selection of contemporary films which target audiences’ ethical sensibilities in very different ways. Each chapter focuses on at least three close readings of films and documentaries, examining a wide range of environmental issues as they are illustrated across contemporary Hollywood films. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of environmental communication, film studies, media and cultural studies, environmental philosophy and ethics.

Author : Chukwumerije Okereke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134126880

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Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance by Chukwumerije Okereke Pdf

An ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, this book detailes the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it.

Author : Anders Nordgren
Publisher : S. Academiae Ubsaliensis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economic development
ISBN : UOM:39015053387208

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Science, Ethics, Sustainability by Anders Nordgren Pdf

Author : Bob Jickling,Heila Lotz-Sisitka,Lausanne Olvitt,Rob O’Donoghue,Ingrid Schudel,Dylan McGarry,Blair Niblett
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781991201287

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Environmental Ethics by Bob Jickling,Heila Lotz-Sisitka,Lausanne Olvitt,Rob O’Donoghue,Ingrid Schudel,Dylan McGarry,Blair Niblett Pdf

This well-constructed, and highly original, sourcebook integrates educational materials for teaching environmental ethics with theoretical reflections. The book is set to contribute immensely to its aim of taking ethics out of philosophy departments and putting it into the streets, into villages, and on the Earth—to make ethics an everyday activity, not something left to experts and specialists. Context-based activities are presented in almost every chapter. While it acknowledges foundational theories in environmental ethics, and the work that they continue to do, it wholeheartedly embraces a growing body of literature that emphasises contextual, process-oriented, and place-based approaches to ethical reflection, deliberation, and action. It walks on the ground and isn’t afraid to get a little dirty or to seek joy in earthly relationships. And it ultimately breaks with much Western academic tradition by framing “ethics in a storied world”, thus making room to move beyond Euro-American perspectives in environmental issues. This work will be of interest to school teachers and other non-formal and informal educators, teacher educators, college instructors, university professors, and other professionals who wish to bring environmental ethics to the forefront of their pedagogical practices.

Author : Ming H Wong,Frank W K Lee,Martin K F Fung
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789813101821

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Environmental Principles and Ethics by Ming H Wong,Frank W K Lee,Martin K F Fung Pdf

This book with the accompanying field trip guide, aims to foster environmental literacy of non-science students and to train them to look at environment-related issues from a critical perspective. With these books, students will obtain knowledge on fundamental environmental ethics and the principles involved. They will be in a position to apply these ethical principles in debates on local and global environment-related issues. The issues covered in the book include natural science, resources management, food safety, public health, sustainable development, ecotourism, nature conservation and ecological footprint, as well as other current environment-related issues in Hong Kong and South China. The field trip guide aims to make use of the natural environment and other related premises as outdoor classrooms to illustrate the importance of conservation and environmental principles. Both books could be used as reference materials by academic institutions, non-profit organizations and government departments. They include practical educational materials on the life sciences and will help enhance readers' knowledge of the environment.

Author : Dieter T. Hessel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0377000949

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Energy Ethics by Dieter T. Hessel Pdf

Author : Lisa H. Newton
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015054399731

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Ethics and Sustainability by Lisa H. Newton Pdf

This straightforward book is the only one of its kind to join the literature of environmental ethics to the literature of applied ethics--to describe a life lived in harmony with itself, with society, and with the natural world. KEY TOPICS: Its three chapters focus on morality, technology, and stewardship while encouraging readers to explore a single virtue that will encompass all the requirements of the ethical life and save the environment at the same time. MARKET: For humans who want to live good and fulfilling lives without compromising the ability of the other species on the planet to do the same.

Author : Robin Attfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132269189

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The Ethics of the Environment by Robin Attfield Pdf

This book brings together over thirty leading contributions to environmental ethics, from pioneering papers to recent work at the cutting edge of thought in this field. The introduction links together these articles and also appraises their strengths and weaknesses and presents a distinctive overview of the subject.

Author : Robin Attfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192517562

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Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Robin Attfield Pdf

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are becoming increasingly important. In this Very Short Introduction Robin Attfield traces the origins of environmental ethics as a discipline, and considers how it defends the independent value of living creatures, and the need to make decisions informed by the needs and interests of future generations. Exploring the diverse approaches to ethical decisions and judgements, he highlights the importance of making processes of production and consumption sustainable and of addressing human population levels, together with policies for preserving species, sub-species, and their habitats. Along the way Attfield discusses different movements such as Deep Ecology, Social Ecology, the Environmental Justice movement and the Green movement, and also considers the attitudes to the environment of the world's religions, including the approach from the major religions and the contributions of the indigenous religions of Asia, Africa and North America. Analysing the current threat of climate change, and proposals for climate engineering, he demonstrates how responsibility for the environment ultimately lies with us all, from states and corporations to individuals, and emphasises how concerted action is required to manage our environment ethically and sustainably. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : David R. Keller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405176392

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Environmental Ethics by David R. Keller Pdf

Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s. Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric precedents Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the field by featuring seminal work from eminent philosophers, biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, nature writers, business writers, and others Designed to be used with a web-site which contains a continuously updated archive of case studies: environmentalethics.info