African Environmental Ethics : A Critical Reader / / edited by Munamato Chemhuru

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910337691603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham Switzerland, : , : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 9783030188078; 3-030-18807-8
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 pages)
• Collana: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, , 1570-3010 ; ; 29
• Disciplina: 363.70096; 179.1
• Soggetti: Philosophy, African; Environmental ethics - Africa; Environmental responsibility - Africa; International environmental law
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introducing African Environmental Ethics Moral Status and the African Environment -- 2. An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualis m and Holism -- 3. The Moral Status of Nature: An African Understanding -- 4. Environmental Ethics in the Context of African Traditional Thought: Beyond the Impasse -- l 5. The Criticism of Secular Humanism in African Philosophy Ubuntu and the Environment -- 6. Ubuntu Environmental Ethics: Conceptions and Misconceptions -- 7. Ubuntu and Environmental Ethics: The West Can Learn from Africa When Faced with Climate Change -- 8. African Environmental Ethics as Southern Environmental Ethics African Ecocentric Environmental Ethics -- 9. A (South) African Land Ethic? The Viability of an Ecocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics and Philosophy -- 10 .African Environmental Ethics: Lessons from the Rain-Maker’s Moral and Cosmological Perspectives -- 11. New Waves: African Environmental Ethics and Ocean Ecosystems Environmental Justice in African Philosophy -- 12. Environmental Justice: Towards an African Perspective -- 13. The African Emphasis on Harmonious ; Relations: Implications for Environmental Ethics and Justice -- 14. Expanding Nussbaum’s Eighth Capability Using African Environmental Ethics Questions of Animal Rights in African Philosophy -- 15. Moral Status of Non-human Animals from an African Perspective: In Defense of Moderate Anthropocentric Thinking -- 16. Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics in Africa: From Anthropocentrism to Non-speciesism? -- 17. Decolonizing Human-Animal Relations in an African Context: The Story of the Mourning Elephants Issues of Environmental Pollution in Africa -- 18. Ethical Issues in Environmental Pollution: Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and Oil Industries in Tropical Regions—The Nigerian Niger-Delta Case -- 19. Niger Delta Environmental Crises and the Limitations of Africanizing Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: Towards an Earth-Eco-Socialist Model -- 20. “Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness”: A Theological Reflection on the Solid Waste Problem in Ghana.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational Environmentalism, ubuntu, African theocentric and teleological environmentalism are addressed in this book. It is unique in so far as it goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics by exploring how these views might be understood differently in order to conceptualize African environmental ethics. Against the background where environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, extinction of flora and fauna, and global warming are plain to see, it becomes useful to examine how African conceptions of environmental ethics could be understood in order to confront some of these problems facing the whole world. This book will be of value to undergraduate students, graduate students and academics working in the area of African Philosophy, African Environmental Ethics and Global Ethics in general. .