Global Ethics and the Environment

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Low

• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues.Global Ethics and Environment explores these ethical issues from a range of perspectives and using a wide range of case studies. Chapters focus on: the impact of development in new industrial regions; the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature; the application of ethics in different cultural and institutional contexts; environmental injustice in the location of hazardous materials and processes; the ethics of the impact of a single event (Chernobyl) on the global community; the ethics of transitional institutions.This collection will both stimulate debate and provide an excellent resource for wide-ranging case study material and solid academic context.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures and tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 12
Introduction: towards global ethics......Page 16
An outline of the problems ahead......Page 31
Environmental justice challenges......Page 46
Environmental justice challenges at home and abroad......Page 48
Ecological balance in an era of globalization......Page 62
Chernobyl, global environmental injustice and mutagenic threats......Page 85
Justice, the market and climate change......Page 105
Environmental justice: issues of principle......Page 122
Considerations on the environment of justice......Page 124
Care-sensitive ethics and situated universalism......Page 146
Ethics across the species boundary......Page 161
Mapping human rights......Page 173
Indigenous ecologies and an ethic of connection......Page 190
Ecological ethics from rights to recognition: multiple spheres of justice for humans, animals and nature......Page 203
Global political justice......Page 228
Indigenous peoples, the conservation of traditional ecological knowledge, and global governance......Page 230
Fairness matters: the role of equity in international regime formation......Page 262
Global ecological democracy......Page 279
Restructuring the space of democracy: the effects of capitalist globalization and the ecological crisis on the form and substance of democracy......Page 298
Index......Page 325