Ethics of the global environment / Robin Attfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attfield, Robin, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in global ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Global environmental change--Moral and ethical aspects.

Global environmental change.

Environmental responsibility--Moral and ethical aspects.

Environmental responsibility.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"This fully updated and expanded textbook offers new reflections on global environmental issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, while remaining sensitive to global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. It supplies an ethical critique of current international environmental problems and negotiations, and the shape which international regimes will need in order to cope with global environmental problems"--Back cover.

Contents:

Part I. Concepts, theories and values

Nature and the global environment

Global ethics and environmental ethics

Trustees of the planet

The ethics of extinction

Part II. Applications and issues

Global resources and climate change

Sustainable development

Population and poverty

Biodiversity and preservation

Part III. Global justice and global citizenship

Environmental justice and world order

Sustainability: perspectives and principles

The ethics of climate change

World citizenship in a precarious world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 243-264) and index.

ISBN:

0748654801

9780748654802

9780748654819

074865481X

OCLC:

903595975

Publisher Number:

99962470325