Environmental Ethics : an Introduction and Learning Guide / editors, Rainer Paslack, Gamze Isildar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vromans, Kees, editor.

Contributor:

Paslack, Rainer, editor.

Isildar, Gamze, editor.

Vrind, Rob de, editor.

Simon, Jürgen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Environmental responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"As the destructive consequences of environmental problems such as global warming, water scarcity and resource and biodiversity destruction have been felt ever more heavily, people are becoming more aware of the importance of and their responsibilities towards environmental protection. The causes of our problems are anthropogenic. The number of people working in what might be termed "environmental industries" or with environmental responsibilities in their day-to-day work has mushroomed. In many cases, however, individuals charged with protecting the environment have a set of empirical priorities: what *is* done, rather than moral priorities which consider what *should* be done. The need to harmonize environmental knowledge with ethical behaviour and thus achieve behavioural change and the internalization of environmentally ethical values has never been more urgent. This book, developed as part of an EU programme to diffuse the application of environmental ethics to decision-making on pollution control, is a response to the need for a restatement of environmental ethics and for a code of behaviour and set of values that can be internalised and adopted to guide the actions by individuals at the sharp end of protecting the environment: decision-makers and environmental experts/executives/staff working in municipalities and public/government organisations throughout the EU and Turkey. It is nothing short of an ethical training manual that will guide environmental experts/decision-makers in making sound judgements and decisions and will act as a bridge between environmental knowledge and environmental behaviour. The book will be essential reading for decision-makers and experts working in local authorities and governmental organisations with responsibility for environmental protection: for both graduate and postgraduate students in environment-related disciplines and for vocational education teachers with a focus on the environment."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front cover; Disclaimer; Title page; Copyright page; Authors; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; 1. Introduction to environmental ethics; 2. Ethics: The search for decision criteria; 3. The challenge to environmental ethics; 4. Main approaches to environmental ethics; 5. The need for political and legal regulation; 6. From environmental ethics to sustainable decision-making; 7. Summary; Annex. The Env-Ethics Project; References and further sources of information; About the editors; Index; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-27779-0

1-351-27780-4

9781351277808

OCLC:

1011107855