Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s.
Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics
Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field
Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric precedents
Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the field by featuring seminal work from eminent philosophers, biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, nature writers, business writers, and others
Designed to be used with a web-site which contains a continuously updated archive of case studies: http://environmentalethics.info/
Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics
Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field
Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric precedents
Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the field by featuring seminal work from eminent philosophers, biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, nature writers, business writers, and others
Designed to be used with a web-site which contains a continuously updated archive of case studies: http://environmentalethics.info/
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