Ethics and Environmental Policy: Theory Meets Practice

ISBN 10: 0820316571 / ISBN 13: 9780820316574

Published by University of Georgia Press, 1994

In English. Seller Inventory # ria9780820316574_new

Synopsis:

In this collection of essays, leading environmentalists and philosophers explore the relationship between environmental ethics and policy, both in theory and practice. The first section of the book focuses on four approaches to change in ethical theory: ecological science, feminist metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, and holistic postmodern technology. In subsequent sections the contributors emphasize the need for nontraditional solutions and attempt to expand awareness of the most pressing practical problems. Among the topics discussed are the possibilities of real international cooperation, the inequitable but economically intractable issue of global gasses, the political and ethical challenges of city planning, and the growing evidence of fundamental inappropriateness in treating land as legal private property. This volume is based on essays presented in 1992 at the Second International Conference on Ethics and Environmental Policy. The conference was held in response to the increasing need for a new ethics that would counter the traditional human-centered, dominantly individualistic approach of the industrial world toward the environment.

About the Author: FREDERICK FERRÉ is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, most recently Ethics and Environmental Concern: Theory and Practice (Georgia), which he coedited with Peter Hartel, and Hellfire and Lightning Rods: Liberating Science, Technology, and Religion.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ethics and Environmental Policy: Theory ...
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New