The Ethics of the Global Environment

ISBN-13: 9780748654802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 288 str.

Robin Attfield

Opis

Learn how ethical principles and concepts apply to global environmental problems
This fully updated and expanded textbook gives you new reflections on global environmental issues. It looks at issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. Robin Attfield gives an ethical critique of current international environmental problems and negotiations, and explains how international regimes will need to change to be able to cope with global environmental problems.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Concepts, Theories and Values; 1. Nature and the Global Environment; 2. Global Ethics and Environmental Ethics; 3. Trustees of the Planet; 4. The Ethics of Extinction; Part II: Applications and Issues; 5. Global Resources and Climate Change; 6. Sustainable Development; 7. Population and Poverty; 8. Biodiversity and Preservation; Part III: Global Justice and Global Citizenship; 9. Environmental Justice and World Order; 10. Sustainability: Perspectives and Principles; 11. The Ethics of Climate Change; 12. World Citizenship in a Precarious World; Bibliography; Index.