Environmental ethics / / edited by Michael Boylan

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2014
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 400 p.)
• Disciplina: 179/.1
• Soggetto topico: Environmental ethics
• Classificazione: 519.8; 179/.1
• Altri autori: BoylanMichael <1952->
• Note generali: Previous ed.: 2001; Includes bibliographical references
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Environmental Ethics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Source Credits -- Part I Theoretical Background -- 1 Ethical Reasoning -- Case 1: Social/Political Ethics -- Case 2: Environmental Ethics -- 2 The Self in Context A Grounding for Environmentalism : A Grounding For Environmentalism -- Evaluating a Case Study: Developing a Practical Ethical Viewpoint -- 3 Worldview Arguments for Environmentalism -- A. The Land Ethic and Deep Ecology -- The Land Ethic -- The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary -- What Is Social Ecology? -- B. Eco-Feminism and Social Justice -- Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory -- The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism -- Patently Wrong: The Commercialization of Life Forms -- C. Aesthetics -- Aesthetics and the Value of Nature -- Worldview and the Value-Duty Link to Environmental Ethics -- Evaluating a Case Study: Finding the Conflicts -- 4 Anthropocentric versus Biocentric Justifications -- A. Anthropocentric Justifications -- Human Rights and Future Generations -- Environmental Values, Anthropocentrism and Speciesism -- B. Biocentric Justifications -- Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World -- Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics -- C. Searching the Middle -- Reconciling Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics -- On the Reconciliation of Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics -- Reconciliation Reaffirmed: A Reply to Steverson -- Evaluating a Case Study: Assessing Embedded Levels -- Part II Applied Environmental Problems -- 5 Pollution and Climate Change -- A. Air and Water Pollution -- Blue Water -- Polluting and Unpolluting -- Moral Valuation of Environmental Goods -- B. Climate Change. ; Does a Failure in Global Leadership Mean It's All Over?: Climate, Population, and Progress -- Collective Responsibility and Climate Change -- Evaluating a Case Study: Applying Ethical Issues -- 6 Animal Rights -- All Animals Are Equal -- The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights -- A Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory -- Mary Anne Warren and "Duties to Animals" -- Against Zoos -- Evaluating a Case Study: Structuring the Essay -- 7 Sustainability -- A. Sustainability: What It Is and How It Works -- Defining Sustainability Ethics -- A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Moral Corruption -- Sustainability and Adaptation: Environmental Values and the Future -- B. Sustainability and Development -- 'Sustainable Development': Is It a Useful Concept? -- On Wilfred Beckerman ' s Critique of Sustainable Development -- Evaluating a Case Study: Cases on Sustainability -- Further Reading.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Environmental ethics
• ISBN: 1118658043; 9781118658048
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820173803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II