Sustainability: Environmental Ethics

Part I. Environmental values -- Bringing values to light -- Classical ethical theories and the environment -- Anthropocentrism and its critics : Broadening moral concern -- The social roots of environmental problems -- Part II. Environmental ethics in practice -- Ethics, institutions and the environment -- Global climate change -- Ecological restoration -- Engaging environmental concern, promoting change.

Wilderness areas -- United States; Wilderness areas -- Recreational use -- United States; Nature conservation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Nature conservation -- United States -- Philosophy; Wildlife conservation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Wildlife conservation -- United States -- Philosophy; Nature conservation -- Moral and ethical aspects; Nature conservation -- Philosophy; Wilderness areas; Wilderness areas -- Recreational use; Wildlife conservation -- Moral and ethical aspects; Wildlife conservation -- Philosophy; United States

Legal heritage and the digital age -- Ethics and social responsibility of business -- Courts, jurisdiction, and administrative law -- Judicial, alternative, and e-dispute resolution -- Constitutional law for business and e-commerce -- Torts and strict liability -- Criminal law and cyber crimes -- Intellectual property and cyber piracy -- Formation and requirements of contracts -- Performance and breach of contracts -- Digital law and e-commerce -- Ucc sales contracts, leases, and warranties -- Credit, secured transactions, and bankruptcy -- Small business, general partnerships, and limited partnerships -- Limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, and special forms of business -- Corporations and corporate governance -- Investor protection and e-securities transactions -- Agency law -- Equal opportunity in employment -- Employment law and worker protection -- Labor law and immigration law -- Antitrust law and unfair trade practices -- Consumer protection -- Environmental protection -- Real property and land use regulation -- International and world trade law -- Accountants' duties and liability.

Local warming -- Global alarming -- The search for salvation -- Radical precaution -- Market solutions and homeostasis -- The moral economy -- Heimat and habitat -- Beauty, piety and desecration -- Getting nowhere -- Begetting somewhere -- Modest proposals -- Appendix 1. Global justice -- Appendix 2. How should we live?

he second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition. Accessible introduction for beginners, including important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for the volume Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition, including an entirely new chapter on Pollution and climate change and a new section on Sustainability Includes new material on ethical theory as a grounding for understanding the ethical dimensions of the environment, our interactions with it, and our place in it

Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environmental problem that can be managed in isolation from larger questions concerning development trajectories, and ethical obligations towards the poor and to future generations.

This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well-being? Specifically, the fourteen essays collected here discuss the “convergence hypothesis” put forth by Bryan Norton—a controversial thesis in environmental ethics about the policy implications of moral arguments for environmental protection. Historically influential essays are joined with newly-commissioned essays to provide the first sustained attempt to reconcile two long-opposed positions. Bryan Norton himself offers the book's closing essay.

How much can we reasonably expect from education? This book, written by a philosopher of education, casts new light on this question by seeing values education, not as a separate activity within schools, but as an aspect of education that both reflects the surrounding climate of values and can help to change it. Graham Haydon argues that all of us – whether as teachers, parents, students or citizens – share in a responsibility for the quality of that ethical environment. He argues that we must ensure that what happens in schools will: enable young people to appreciate the diversity of our ethical environment help them find their way through its complexities contribute to developing a climate of values that is desirable for all. This book shows that values education is too demanding to be left to parents and too important to be entrusted to government initiatives. For teachers engaged in values education, this book brings a fresh perspective to what they are doing, within a realistic view of their responsibilities. For students of education, it shows that practical issues can be illuminated by insights from philosophy.