Ethics of the global environment /
Attfield, Robin
Ethics of the global environment / by Robin Attfield - 2nd - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. - viii, 272 p. - Edinburgh studies in world ethics. .
1. Nature and the global environment --
2. Global ethics and environmental ethics --
3. Trustees of the planet --
4. Ethics of extinction --
5. Global resources and climate change --
6. Sustainable development --
7. Population and poverty --
8. Biodiversity and preservation --
9. Environmental justice and world order --
10. Sustainability : perspectives and principles --
11. Ethics of climate change --
12. World citizenship in a precarious world.
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. New for this edition. A new chapter on the ethics of climate change Up-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti's re-forestation project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi Dam New passages on lobbying websites and
9780748654819
EP
333.714 / ATT-E
Ethics of the global environment / by Robin Attfield - 2nd - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. - viii, 272 p. - Edinburgh studies in world ethics. .
1. Nature and the global environment --
2. Global ethics and environmental ethics --
3. Trustees of the planet --
4. Ethics of extinction --
5. Global resources and climate change --
6. Sustainable development --
7. Population and poverty --
8. Biodiversity and preservation --
9. Environmental justice and world order --
10. Sustainability : perspectives and principles --
11. Ethics of climate change --
12. World citizenship in a precarious world.
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. New for this edition. A new chapter on the ethics of climate change Up-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti's re-forestation project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi Dam New passages on lobbying websites and
9780748654819
EP
333.714 / ATT-E