The Ethics of the Global Environment

by Attfield, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780748654819
• ISBN10: 074865481X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-03-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Robin Attfield is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he has taught philosophy since 1968. He has also served as Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Ife, Nigeria (1972-3), Inter-University Council Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1975, and National Research Council (Republic of South Africa) Visiting Research Fellow (July/August 1999).

Robin is the author of God and The Secular: A Philosophical Assessment of Secular Reasoning from Bacon to Kant (1978 and 1993), The Ethics of Environmental Concern (1983 and 1991), A Theory of Value and Obligation (1987), Environmental Philosophy: Principles and Prospects (1994), Value, Obligation and Meta-Ethics (1995), The Ethics of the Global Environment (1999), Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century (2003 and 2014), Creation, Evolution and Meaning (2006), and Ethics: An Overview (2012). He is the editor of The Ethics of the Environment (2008) and joint editor of Values, Conflict and the Environment (1989 and 1996), International Justice and the Third World (1992), and Philosophy and the Natural Environment (1994).

Table of Contents

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