The global and the local : : an environmental ethics casebook / / by Dale Murray.

• VerfasserIn: Murray, Dale F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (522 pages)

In The Global and the Local: An Environmental Ethics Casebook , Dale Murray presents fifty-one actual, unique, and compelling case studies. The book covers a wide variety of environmental topics from those as global as overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, and e-waste, to those topics as local as whether we should place salt on the driveway during winter, construct rain gardens, or believe we have a duty to hunt. The book also features an easy to read, yet rigorous introductory section exposing readers to ethical theories and approaches to environmental ethics. By interweaving these theoretical considerations into long and short case studies, Murray illuminates a comprehensive range of the most pressing environmental issues facing our biosphere both today and in the future. This book is also available in paperback.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- General Moral Theories -- Applications and Approaches to Environmental Ethics -- What is Natural? Does It Matter? -- Business vs. Environmental Protection -- The Environment, Global Challenges, and Global Economies -- The Greening of Institutions -- Recreation and Environmental Ethics -- Environmental Reform and Unintended Consequences -- Relations between Human and Non-Human Animals -- Think Globally, Act Locally -- Are These Really Environmental Problems? -- Bibliography -- Index.