Ethics and the Environment
An Introduction
2nd Edition
Published on 28. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
290 pages
978-1-108-99439-2 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition of a widely used and cited introduction to ethics and the environment offers a broad and lively discussion of nature's future, focusing on climate change, conservation, and justice for both our contemporaries and future generations. It discusses the nature of environmental problems and their relationship to economics, religion, technology, and aesthetics. It includes incisive discussions of our moral relations with other animals, and of how animals are used in our food systems. It also provides a deep discussion of the value of nature, which takes up ecofeminist and deep ecology views as well as sentientism and biocentrism. It discusses the plurality of values, and applies this analysis to some conflicts from the author's home state of California. The volume is comprehensively revised and updated, with several new chapters, and concludes with a compelling discussion of the question "How should I live?" in this new epoch of the Anthropocene.
Reviews / Votes
'The material covered in the chapters on ethics is essential to a proper understanding of ethics and the environment and the chapter on animals is a clear and concise account of that very relevant topic. Add those elements to the illuminating discussion of the value of nature and the result is a book that can be recommended with confidence to anyone interested in learning about ethics, the environment and the interaction between them.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Here, at long last, is an excellent single-author text that can be used in undergraduate environmental ethics courses in tandem with one of the many good anthologies of landmark essays. Jamieson offers a welcome new volume for those in search of accessible, sophisticated and sustained discussions of the ethical perspectives that inform the discipline.' ChoiceMore details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-99439-2 (9781108994392)
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11/2024
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
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01/2008
Cambridge University Press
€42.08
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Person
Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy Emeritus at New York University. He is the author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed-and What It Means for Our Future (2014); Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (2002); and the co-editor of Environment and Society: A Reader (2017).
Content
1. The Environment as an Ethical Question; 2. Human Morality; 3. Moral Philosophy; 4. Normative Ethics; 5. Humans and Other Animals; 6. Animals, Food and the Environment; 7. The Value of Nature; 8. The Plurality of Values; 9. California Conflicts; 10. Nature's Future; 11. How Should I Live?