274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
A. Pablo Iannone
