We have entered a unique century, the first century in the 35 million centuries of life on Earth in which one species can jeopardize the planet's future. Robin Attfield’s biospheric consequentialism is insightful and persuasive, at the frontier of the crescendo of global concern for life on our wonderland planet.
- Holmes Rolston III, University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University,
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.
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This fully updated and expanded textbook 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.
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Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Concepts, Theories and Values; 1. Nature and the Global Environment; 2. Global Ethics and Environmental Ethics; 3. Trustees of the Planet; 4. The Ethics of Extinction; Part II: Applications and Issues; 5. Global Resources and Climate Change; 6. Sustainable Development; 7. Population and Poverty; 8. Biodiversity and Preservation; Part III: Global Justice and Global Citizenship; 9. Environmental Justice and World Order; 10. Sustainability: Perspectives and Principles; 11. The Ethics of Climate Change; 12. World Citizenship in a Precarious World; Bibliography; Index.
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A new chapter on the ethics of climate change
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780748654819
Publisert
2015-02-12
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288
Forfatter