
Practical Environmental Ethics
A. Pablo Iannone(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2016
Book
Hardback
274 pages
978-1-4128-6308-7 (ISBN)
Description
This essential volume for professionals and academics proposes a new approach to environmental ethics and to environmental policymaking in particular. All too frequently, policy makers focus only on what ends should ideally be pursued, ignoring whether the means have any negative unintended consequences. Such approaches tend to have a focus on consequentialist, deontological, virtue-cantered, or care-based theories which makes them too singularly-minded. They are not suitable for dealing with the complexities of life and, especially, environmental policy making.
Practical Environmental Ethics distinguishes between cases in which entire ecosystems are at risk, threatening entire societies where collective consequences take precedence and cases in which whole ecosystems are not at risk where individual rights or duties take precedence. In doing this, Iannone discusses environmental controversies not only philosophically, but in the complex contexts at work within policy-making and decision-making communities. This allows for consideration of crucial concepts used in morality, biology, technology, business, economics, politics, and philosophy.
Relying on numerous actual environmental cases, Iannone helps formulate realistic ways of logically and ethically determining how environmental controversies should be addressed. Ultimately, he proposes solutions that policy makers and anyone interested in this topic may utilize to clarify environmental issues and determine how to best deal with them for the greater good.
Practical Environmental Ethics distinguishes between cases in which entire ecosystems are at risk, threatening entire societies where collective consequences take precedence and cases in which whole ecosystems are not at risk where individual rights or duties take precedence. In doing this, Iannone discusses environmental controversies not only philosophically, but in the complex contexts at work within policy-making and decision-making communities. This allows for consideration of crucial concepts used in morality, biology, technology, business, economics, politics, and philosophy.
Relying on numerous actual environmental cases, Iannone helps formulate realistic ways of logically and ethically determining how environmental controversies should be addressed. Ultimately, he proposes solutions that policy makers and anyone interested in this topic may utilize to clarify environmental issues and determine how to best deal with them for the greater good.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-6308-7 (9781412863087)
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Person
A. Pablo Iannone is professor of philosophy at Central Connecticut State University, USA, and has authored eight philosophy monographs, most notably Transaction's Seeking Balance.
Content
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Credits
Note to the Reader
1 Ethics, the Environment, Environmental Ethics
2 Environmental Problems, Environmental Issues, and Ethical Theories
3 Environmental Risk Assessment
4 Risk Assessment Beyond Quantification
5 Environmental Management
6 The Global Environment, and the Remnants of
Colonialism, Ethics, and Economic Development
7 The Contemporary Globalization of Development
8 A Comparison of Traditional Versus More Recent Environmental Policy Approaches
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Preface and Acknowledgments
Credits
Note to the Reader
1 Ethics, the Environment, Environmental Ethics
2 Environmental Problems, Environmental Issues, and Ethical Theories
3 Environmental Risk Assessment
4 Risk Assessment Beyond Quantification
5 Environmental Management
6 The Global Environment, and the Remnants of
Colonialism, Ethics, and Economic Development
7 The Contemporary Globalization of Development
8 A Comparison of Traditional Versus More Recent Environmental Policy Approaches
Glossary
Bibliography
Index