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"Environmental Ethics offers an up-to-date and balanced overview of environmental ethics, focusing on theory and practice. Written in clear and engaging prose, the book provides an historical perspective on the relationship between humans and nature and explores the limitations and possibilities of classical ethical theories in relation to the environment. In addition, the book discusses major theoretical approaches to environmental ethics and addresses contemporary environmental issues such as climate change and ecological restoration. Connections between theory and practice are highlighted throughout, showing how values guide environmental policies and practices, and conversely, how actions and institutions shape environmental values."--Publisher information.

Table of Contents:

• PART ONE Environmental values
• 1 Bringing values to light
• Introduction
• The ubiquity of values
• Values and worldviews
• Ethics, metaethics, and moral progress
• Conclusion
• 2 Classical ethical theories and the environment
• Introduction
• Utilitarianism, cost-benefit analysis, and the environment
• Kantian ethics and the environment
• Virtue ethics and the environment
• Conclusion
• Further reading
• 3 Anthropocentrism and its critics: Broadening moral concern
• Introduction: Intrinsic value and moral standing
• Value and the environment: Sentiocentrism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism
• Beyond intrinsic value? Relational approaches to ethics
• Conclusion: Care and meaning-toward a relational perspective in environmental ethics
• Further reading

• 4 The social dimensions of environmental problems
• Introduction
• Ecofeminism
• Environmental justice
• Conclusion: Interspecies justice? Anthropocentrism and nonanthropocentrism revisited
• PART TWO Environmental ethics in practice
• 5 Ethics, institutions, and the environment
• Introduction
• Ethics, institutions, and infrastructure
• Sustainability and sustainable development
• Conclusion
• 6 Global climate change
• Introduction
• The moral challenges of climate change
• Justice and climate change
• Geoengineering
• Further reading
• 7 Ecological restoration
• Introduction
• Ecological restoration: History, foundations, and fundamental goals
• Authenticity and historical fidelity in ecological restoration
• Faking nature?
• Hybrid landscapes, climate change, and other challenges
• Restoration, participation, and engagement
• Conclusion: Narrative, continuity, and the future of restoration
• 8 Engaging environmental concern, promoting change
• Introduction
• Pluralism, pragmatism, and politics
• Enlivening the moral imagination
• Integrating the personal and the political: Toward an ecological culture
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index.

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Author/Creator:

Hourdequin, Marion

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Environmental ethics: from theory to practice [by Hourdequin, M.]

Subjects:

Environmental ethics

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GE42 .H68 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781472507839 (electronic bk.)
1472507835 (electronic bk.)
1472508084 (Cloth) [Invalid]
9781472508089 (Cloth) [Invalid]
1472510984 (Paper) [Invalid]
9781472510983 (Paper) [Invalid]
1472507614 (electronic bk.)
9781472507617 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

928995942
929412412 [Invalid]