1st Edition

Environmental Ethics An Introduction and Learning Guide

192 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

As the destructive consequences of environmental problems such as global warming, water scarcity and resource and biodiversity destruction have been felt ever more heavily, people are becoming more aware of the importance of and their responsibilities towards environmental protection. The causes of our problems are anthropogenic. The number of people working in what might be termed "environmental... Read more
List of figures and tablesPreface  1. Introduction to environmental ethicsGamze Yucel Isildar  2. Ethics: the search for decision criteriaKees Vromans  3. The challenge to environmental ethicsRainer Paslack  4. Main approaches to environmental ethicsKees Vromans and Rainer Paslack5. The need for political and legal regulationRainer Paslack and Jurgen W. Simon6. From environmental ethics to sustainable decision-makingRob de Vrind  7. SummaryAnnex: The Env-Ethics ProjectReferences and further sources of informationAbout the editorsIndex

Biography

Vromans, Kees; Paslack, Rainer; Isildar, Gamze; Vrind, Rob de; Simon, Jürgen