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Working toward sustainability : ethical decision-making in a technological world / / Charles Kibert [and four others]
| Working toward sustainability : ethical decision-making in a technological world / / Charles Kibert [and four others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
| Disciplina | 300 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | KibertCharles J |
| Collana | Wiley Series in Sustainable Design |
| Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development
Environmental ethics Environmental economics |
| ISBN |
1-118-10589-3
1-283-43218-8 9786613432186 1-118-10603-2 |
| Classificazione | ARC000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Working toward Sustainability; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MAKING CONNECTIONS; SHIFTING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY; THE STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK; Chapter 1 A Context for Sustainability; THE RATIONALE FOR SUSTAINABILITY; Sustainability Interlude; A Response to a Crisis; CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES; Population and Consumption; Climate Change; Nonrenewable Resource Depletion; Loss of Biodiversity; Overfishing; Eutrophication; Desertification and Acidification; Poverty; Ecosystem Services and Quality of Life; THE ETHICAL CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY; THE THREE-LEG MODEL OF SUSTAINABILITY
CONCLUSIONChapter 2 The Technology Challenge; OVERVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY; Defining Technology; A Brief History of Technology; THE TECHNOLOGY PARADOX; Technological Optimism versus Technological Pessimism; Developing a More Nuanced View of the Impacts of Technology; CONSEQUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY; Predicting Consequences of Technology; Reducing the Uncertainty of Technology; Technology Risk Assessment, Acceptance, and Management; ALTERNATIVE, APPROPRIATE, AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY; THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 3 Introduction to Ethical Concepts RELIGIOUS ETHICSCommon Ideals; Views of Human Nature; SECULAR AND PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICAL TRADITIONS; Justice; Deontological Ethics; Rights; Consequentialist Ethics; Objectivism and Ethical Relativism; Objectivism and Relativism in Sustainability; ETHICS AS A TOOL FOR MAKING DECISIONS; Framing Ethical Problems; Conflicting Values; THE THREE LEGS OF SUSTAINABILITY; Social Ethics; Environmental Ethics; Economic Ethics; Integrating the Three Legs; CONCLUSION; Chapter 4 Social Dimensions of Sustainability Ethics; JUSTICE, FAIRNESS, AND RECIPROCITY; The Golden Rule; Ethics of Care DISTRIBUTIONAL PRINCIPLESDistribution in a Just Society; Distributing Disadvantages; EXPLORING INTERDEPENDENCE; Thinking Globally, Acting Locally; Life on Spaceship Earth; Environmental Justice; OBLIGATIONS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS; Intergenerational Justice; A Look Back at Looking Forward; Future Quality of Life; Beyond Seven Generations; CONCLUSION; Chapter 5 Environmental Dimensions of Sustainability Ethics; THE EMERGENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; The Birth of Modern Environmental Ethics; Environmentalism Becomes Mainstream; Undertones of the Sacred; RELIGION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS Religion and NatureGreening Religion; ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; Development of Ecology; CARICATURES OF NATURE; A Closer World; CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; Getting the Scale of Ethics Right; Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and Social Ecology; Pluralistic Approaches; Bioregionalism; The New Agrarian Movement; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND NONHUMAN ANIMALS; Making a Case for the Individual; Mixed Communities; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND THE ETHICS OF SUSTAINABILITY; Identifying Values; Emphasizing Human Priorities; CONCLUSION Chapter 6 Economic Dimensions of Sustainability Ethics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778810003321 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Working toward sustainability : ethical decision-making in a technological world / / Charles Kibert [and four others]
| Working toward sustainability : ethical decision-making in a technological world / / Charles Kibert [and four others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
| Disciplina | 300 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | KibertCharles J |
| Collana | Wiley Series in Sustainable Design |
| Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development
Environmental ethics Environmental economics |
| ISBN |
1-118-10589-3
1-283-43218-8 9786613432186 1-118-10603-2 |
| Classificazione | ARC000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Working toward Sustainability; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MAKING CONNECTIONS; SHIFTING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY; THE STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK; Chapter 1 A Context for Sustainability; THE RATIONALE FOR SUSTAINABILITY; Sustainability Interlude; A Response to a Crisis; CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES; Population and Consumption; Climate Change; Nonrenewable Resource Depletion; Loss of Biodiversity; Overfishing; Eutrophication; Desertification and Acidification; Poverty; Ecosystem Services and Quality of Life; THE ETHICAL CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY; THE THREE-LEG MODEL OF SUSTAINABILITY
CONCLUSIONChapter 2 The Technology Challenge; OVERVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY; Defining Technology; A Brief History of Technology; THE TECHNOLOGY PARADOX; Technological Optimism versus Technological Pessimism; Developing a More Nuanced View of the Impacts of Technology; CONSEQUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY; Predicting Consequences of Technology; Reducing the Uncertainty of Technology; Technology Risk Assessment, Acceptance, and Management; ALTERNATIVE, APPROPRIATE, AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY; THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 3 Introduction to Ethical Concepts RELIGIOUS ETHICSCommon Ideals; Views of Human Nature; SECULAR AND PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICAL TRADITIONS; Justice; Deontological Ethics; Rights; Consequentialist Ethics; Objectivism and Ethical Relativism; Objectivism and Relativism in Sustainability; ETHICS AS A TOOL FOR MAKING DECISIONS; Framing Ethical Problems; Conflicting Values; THE THREE LEGS OF SUSTAINABILITY; Social Ethics; Environmental Ethics; Economic Ethics; Integrating the Three Legs; CONCLUSION; Chapter 4 Social Dimensions of Sustainability Ethics; JUSTICE, FAIRNESS, AND RECIPROCITY; The Golden Rule; Ethics of Care DISTRIBUTIONAL PRINCIPLESDistribution in a Just Society; Distributing Disadvantages; EXPLORING INTERDEPENDENCE; Thinking Globally, Acting Locally; Life on Spaceship Earth; Environmental Justice; OBLIGATIONS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS; Intergenerational Justice; A Look Back at Looking Forward; Future Quality of Life; Beyond Seven Generations; CONCLUSION; Chapter 5 Environmental Dimensions of Sustainability Ethics; THE EMERGENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; The Birth of Modern Environmental Ethics; Environmentalism Becomes Mainstream; Undertones of the Sacred; RELIGION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS Religion and NatureGreening Religion; ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; Development of Ecology; CARICATURES OF NATURE; A Closer World; CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; Getting the Scale of Ethics Right; Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and Social Ecology; Pluralistic Approaches; Bioregionalism; The New Agrarian Movement; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND NONHUMAN ANIMALS; Making a Case for the Individual; Mixed Communities; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND THE ETHICS OF SUSTAINABILITY; Identifying Values; Emphasizing Human Priorities; CONCLUSION Chapter 6 Economic Dimensions of Sustainability Ethics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822392103321 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||