Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Managing the Environment for Sustainable Development series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840642211 ISBN 13: 9781840642216

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

`Sustainability' and `sustainable development' have become key phrases of the politics of the environment. They are at the centre of much environmental discourse and indeed of the series of which this collection is a part. This major volume brings together a number of recent papers that address the ethical and political assumptions that underlie different uses of those concepts. Part I examines equality and justice. Part II focuses on justice, equality and future generations. Part III deals with the moral considerability of the non-human world and Part IV looks at environmental justice. Part V examines economic valuation and Part VI discusses sustainability. Part VII covers sustainability and nature. This volume will be an invaluable source of reference for scholars of environmental economics, environmental political theory, environmental ethics and geography, and all those concerned with the philosophical foundations of sustainability.

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Review:

‘The volume. . . ties up all the philosophical issues that lie behind and are raised by the concept(s) of sustainable development – intergenerational equity, intragenerational justice, respect for non-human life, the problem of wilderness, eco-feminism, the monetarisability of the environment and the replaceability of natural “capital”. Although there is much discussion of the meaning of equity – which is overly confused here with equity – this volume covers all of the key areas admirably. It is so refreshing to read papers that tear to pieces the notion that monetarism can ever be a way of solving environmental problems, and particularly that show how the concept of “willingness to pay”, so beloved of economists, is anathema to sustainable development.’ Author: Hazel Greenwood, Place

‘John O’Neill’s introduction is outstanding . . . excellent volume, one that will be an invaluable reference work.’ Author: John Barry, Organization and Environment

From the Author:

Edited by John O’Neill, Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK, R. Kerry Turner, Professor of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences and Director, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and the Programme in Environmental Decision Making (PEDM), University of East Anglia, UK and Ian J. Bateman, OBE, Professor of Environmental Economics, Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1840642211
• ISBN 13: 9781840642216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 704
• Editor: O’Neill John, Turner R. K., Bateman Ian J.