Environmental ethics: an introduction to environmental philosophy

✍ Scribed by Joseph R. DesJardins

• Publisher: Wadsworth / Cengage Learning
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How can you use the study of philosophy to make progress toward solving environmental problems? Environmental Ethics, Fifth Edition introduces you to ethical theory in new and easily understood ways. But most of all, this environmental ethics textbook shows you how we can work together to build a better future.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
I. BASIC CONCEPTS
1. Science, Ethics, and the Environment
2. Ethical Theory and the Enivornment
II. ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AS APPLIED ETHICS
3. Ethics and Economics: Managing Public Lands
4. Responsibilities to Future Generations: Sustainable Development
5. Responsibilities to the Natural World: From Anthropocentric to Nonanthropocentric Ethics
III. THEORIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
6. Biocentric Ethics and the Inherent Value of Life
7. Wilderness, Ecology, and Ethics
8. The Land Ethic
9. Deep Ecology
10. Environmental Justice and Social Ecology
11. Ecofeminism
12. Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Sustainability
Glossary
Index

✦ Subjects

Экологические дисциплины;Экологическая этика