The Ethics of the Global Environment / / Robin Attfield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Attfield, Robin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Global Ethics : ESGE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I. Concepts, Theories and Values --; 1. Nature and the Global Environment --; 2. Global Ethics and Environmental Ethics --; 3. Trustees of the Planet --; 4. The Ethics of Extinction --; Part II. Applications and Issues --; 5. Global Resources and Climate Change --; 6. Sustainable Development --; 7. Population and Poverty --; 8. Biodiversity and Preservation --; Part III. Global Justice and Global Citizenship --; 9. Environmental Justice and World Order --; 10. Sustainability: Perspectives and Principles --; 11. The Ethics of Climate Change --; 12. World Citizenship in a Precarious World --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748654826; 9783110780451
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748654826
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robin Attfield.

Learn how ethical principles and concepts apply to global environmental problemsThis fully updated and expanded textbook gives you new reflections on global environmental issues. It looks at issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. Robin Attfield gives an ethical critique of current international environmental problems and negotiations, and explains how international regimes will need to change to be able to cope with global environmental problems.New for this editionA new chapter on the ethics of climate changeUp-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti’s re-forestation project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi DamNew passages on lobbying websites and the Yasuni Reserve in EquadorFind out moreRead the introduction for free now (pdf)Visit Robin Attfield's ResearchGate profile"