Environmental Ethics: An Interactive Introduction

✍ Scribed by Andrew Kernohan

Publisher: Broadview Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 368
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book explains the basic concepts of environmental ethics and applies them to global environmental problems. The author concisely introduces basic moral theories, discusses how these theories can be extended to consider the non-human world, and examines how environmental ethics interacts with modern society’s economic approach to the environment. Online multiple-choice questions encourage the reader’s active learning.

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