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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: A. Pablo IannonePublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9781412863087ISBN 10: 1412863082 Pages: 274 Publication Date: 30 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationA. Pablo Iannone is professor of philosophy at Central Connecticut State University, USA, and has authored eight philosophy monographs, most notably Transaction's Seeking Balance. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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