Environmental Ethics

A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear, powerful, and oftentimes moving thoughts from one of the first and most respected philosophers to write on the environment.  This focused, forward-looking analysis will be a necessary complement to any balanced textbook ..

Bioregionalism and Global Ethics suggests that current trends towards globalization are creating entirely new social and environmental problems which require cross-cultural dialogue towards the creation of a new "global ethic." Current models of development are based on an implicit global ethic whic..

Bioregionalism and Global Ethics suggests that current trends towards globalization are creating entirely new social and environmental problems which require cross-cultural dialogue towards the creation of a new "global ethic." Current models of development are based on an implicit global ethic whic..

This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory. In particular, the contributors use consequentialist theory to address central questions in environmental ethics, such as questions about what kinds of things have value; about decision-m..

_x000D_ This book introduces a decade of mainly southern African critical realist environmental education research and thinking that asks the question: "How can we facilitate learning processes that will lead to the flourishing of the Earth’s people and ecosystems in more socially just ways?" The en..

In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about non-human ..

Broad in scope, this introduction to environmental ethics considers both contemporary issues and the extent of humanity’s responsibility for distant future life. John Nolt, a logician and environmental ethicist, interweaves contemporary science, logical analysis, and ethical theory into the story of..

Today we face environmental problems, but in spite of all we know it is hard to change our lives. What explains this lack of motivation and change? Discussing the relations between moral motivation, knowledge, and modernity, this book criticizes modern and romantic thinking about "nature" based on a..

International contributors debate ethics in the built environment in all its forms. Will be of interest to architects, students of building and building design, environmentalists, politicians and readers with a general interest in ethics...

Food Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and eating of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most important aspects of key ethical questions relating to food...

Food Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and eating of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most important aspects of key ethical questions relating to food...

In this thought-provoking book, Pauline Phemister sketches an ecological philosophy based on the systematic philosophy of seventeenth century polymath, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leibniz and the Environment is essential reading for historians of philosophy and environmental philosophers, and for any..