The Ethics of the Global Environment (Edinburgh Studies in Global Ethics) - Hardcover

Robin Attfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748654801 ISBN 13: 9780748654802

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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, Obligationand 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).

From the Back Cover

Your concise, up-to-date guide to global environmental ethics.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.Key features:•Takes a distinctive approach to climate ethics•Includes new chapter on the ethics of climate change•Contains up-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti’s re-forestation project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi Dam (Laos)•Integrates environmental ethics with ethical theory•Includes new passages on environmental aesthetics, lobbying websites and the Yasuni Reserve in EcuadorRobin Attfield is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he has taught philosophy since 1968. He has also served as Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at a number of African institiutions. In 2008 he was awarded a D. Litt. by Cardiff University for contributions to environmental philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748654801
• ISBN 13: 9780748654802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288