Environmental ethics
The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition. Accessible introduction for beginners, including important established essays and new essays commissioned especially fo…
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- Full title :Environmental ethics / edited by Michael Boylan.
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The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition. Accessible introduction for beginners, including important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for the volume Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition, including an entirely new chapter on Pollution and climate change and a new section on Sustainability Includes new material on ethical theory as a grounding for understanding the ethical dimensions of the environment, our interactions with it, and our place in it The text incorporates helpful pedagogy, including extensive editorial material, cases, and study questions Includes key information on recent developments in the field Presents a carefully selected set of readings designed to progressively move the reader to competency in subject comprehension and essay writing.
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- Publication Date:©2014
- Edition:Second edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 400 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781118494721, 1118494725
- oclc:ocn857536340
- LC Classification:GE42.B69
- Dewey Decimal:179/.1
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Theoretical background. Ethical reasoning -- The self in context : a grounding for environmentalism -- Worldview arguments for environmentalism -- Anthropocentric versus biocentric justifications -- pt. 2. Applied environmental problems. Pollution and climate change -- Animal rights -- Sustainability.
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