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African Environmental Ethics: A Critical Reader

✍ Scribed by Munamato Chemhuru


Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
321
Series
The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 29
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational Environmentalism, ubuntu, African theocentric and teleological environmentalism are addressed in this book. It is unique in so far as it goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics by exploring how these views might be understood differently in order to conceptualize African environmental ethics. Against the background where environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, extinction of flora and fauna, and global warming are plain to see, it becomes useful to examine how African conceptions of environmental ethics could be understood in order to confront some of these problems facing the whole world. This book will be of value to undergraduate students, graduate students and academics working in the area of African Philosophy, African Environmental Ethics and Global Ethics in general.

✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Introducing African Environmental Ethics (Munamato Chemhuru)....Pages 1-5
Front Matter ....Pages 7-7
An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualism and Holism (Thaddeus Metz)....Pages 9-27
The Moral Status of Nature: An African Understanding (Munamato Chemhuru)....Pages 29-46
Environmental Ethics in the Context of African Traditional Thought: Beyond the Impasse (Patrick Giddy)....Pages 47-57
The Criticism of Secular Humanism in African Philosophy (Motsamai Molefe)....Pages 59-76
Front Matter ....Pages 77-77
Ubuntu Environmental Ethics: Conceptions and Misconceptions (Ephraim Taurai Gwaravanda)....Pages 79-92
Ubuntu and Environmental Ethics: The West Can Learn from Africa When Faced with Climate Change (AΓ―da C. TerblanchΓ©-Greeff)....Pages 93-109
African Environmental Ethics as Southern Environmental Ethics (Nompumelelo Zinhle Manzini)....Pages 111-123
Front Matter ....Pages 125-125
A (South) African Land Ethic? The Viability of an Ecocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Ernst M. Conradie)....Pages 127-139
African Environmental Ethics: Lessons from the Rain-Maker’s Moral and Cosmological Perspectives (Garikai Madavo)....Pages 141-152
New Waves: African Environmental Ethics and Ocean Ecosystems (Michelle Louise Clarke)....Pages 153-172
Front Matter ....Pages 173-173
Environmental Justice: Towards an African Perspective (Margaret Ssebunya, Stephen Nkansah Morgan, Beatrice D. Okyere-Manu)....Pages 175-189
The African Emphasis on Harmonious Relations: Implications for Environmental Ethics and Justice (John Mweshi)....Pages 191-204
Expanding Nussbaum’s Eighth Capability Using African Environmental Ethics (Jessica van Jaarsveld)....Pages 205-219
Front Matter ....Pages 221-221
Moral Status of Non-human Animals from an African Perspective: In Defense of Moderate Anthropocentric Thinking (Dennis Masaka)....Pages 223-237
Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics in Africa: From Anthropocentrism to Non-speciesism? (Kai Horsthemke)....Pages 239-253
Decolonizing Human-Animal Relations in an African Context: The Story of the Mourning Elephants (Angela Roothaan)....Pages 255-268
Front Matter ....Pages 269-269
Ethical Issues in Environmental Pollution: Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and Oil Industries in Tropical Regionsβ€”The Nigerian Niger-Delta Case (Kalu Ikechukwu Kalu, Konrad Ott)....Pages 271-289
Niger Delta Environmental Crises and the Limitations of Africanizing Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: Towards an Earth-Eco-Socialist Model (Philomena Aku Ojomo)....Pages 291-308
β€œCleanliness Is Next to Godliness”: A Theological Reflection on the Solid Waste Problem in Ghana (Afia Ban)....Pages 309-325

✦ Subjects


Philosophy; Agricultural Ethics; International Environmental Law; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary


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