Allen Thompson (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Departmen

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

Herausgeber: Gardiner, Stephen M

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A cutting-edge introduction to environmental ethics in a time of dramatic global environmental change, this collection contains forty-five commissioned articles, with contributions from well-established experts and emerging voices in the field. Each chapter explains the role played by central theories, ideas, issues, and concepts in contemporary environmental ethics.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1044g
• ISBN-13: 9780190933388
• ISBN-10: 0190933380
• Artikelnr.: 54797511

Autorenporträt

Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016), editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005), and co-editor of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010). His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics. Allen Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and a Fellow with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He is co-editor of Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future (MIT, 2012) and serves as an officer for the International Society for Environmental Ethics (Treasurer 2013-2015, Vice-President 2016-2018, and President 2019-2021).

Inhaltsangabe

* The Contributors
* 1. Introducing Contemporary Environmental Ethics Allen Thompson and
Stephen M. Gardiner
* Part I. Context: Broad social contexts in which we find ourselves
* 2. A History of Environmental Ethics Jason Kawall
* 3. Environmental Science: Empirical Claims in Environmental Ethics
Wendy Parker
* 4. Markets, Ethics, and Environment John O'Neill
* 5. Law, Governance, and the Ecological Ethos Daniel Butt
* 6. The Anthropocene! Beyond the Natural?? Holmes Rolston, III
* Part II. Subjects of Value: What ought to count morally and how
* 7. Anthropocentrism: Humanity as Peril and Promise Allen Thompson
* 8. Conscious Animals and the Value of Experience Lori Gruen
* 9. Living Individuals: Biocentrism in Environmental Ethics Clare
Palmer
* 10. How Ecological Collectives are Morally Considerable J. Baird
Callicott
* 11. Valuing Wild Nature Philip Cafaro
* Part III. Nature of Value: The meaning of value and normative claims
* 12. Truth and Goodness: Metaethics in Environmental Ethics Katie
McShane
* 13. Practical Reasons and Environmental Commitment Alan Holland
* 14. Environmental Hermeneutics and the Meaning of Nature Martin
Drenthen
* 15. Phenomenology and Environmental Ethics Ted Toadvine
* 16. Aesthetic Value, Nature, and Environment Emily Brady
* Part IV. How Things Matter: Theoretical perspectives on the way we
ought to act
* 17. Consequentialism in Environmental Ethics Avram Hiller
* 18. Rights, Rules, and Respect for Nature Benjamin Hale
* 19. Environmental Virtue Ethics: Value, Normativity, and Right Action
Ronald Sandler
* 20. Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous and Feminist
Philosophies
* Kyle Powys Whyte and Chris Cuomo
* 21. The Sacred, Reverence for Life, and Environmental Ethics in
America Bron Taylor
* Part V. Key Concepts: Tools for framing and addressing problems
* 22. Individual and Contributory Responsibility for Environmental Harm
Kenneth Shockley
* 23. Justice on One Planet Derek Bell
* 24. Sexual Politics in Environmental Ethics: Impacts, Causes,
Alternatives Chris Cuomo
* 25. Human Rights and the Environment Steve Vanderheiden
* 26. Ecological Space: The Concept and Its Ethical Significance Tim
Hayward
* 27. Risk and Precaution in Decision Making about Nature Jonathan
Aldred
* 28. Citizenship and (Un)Sustainability: A Green Republican
Perspective John Barry
* 29. Future Generations in Environmental Ethics John Nolt
* 30. Sustainability as the Multigenerational Public Interest Bryan G.
Norton
* Part VI. Central Issues: Specific areas of environmental concern
* 31. The Ethics of Environmental Pollution Kevin Elliott
* 32. Population and Environment : The Impossible, the Impermissible,
and the Imperative Elizabeth Cripps
* 33. Ethical Energy Choices Kristin Shrader- Frechette
* 34. Narratives of Food, Agriculture, and the Environment David Kaplan
* 35. Water Ethics: Toward Ecological Cooperation Angela Kallhoff
* 36. Anthropogenic Mass Extinction: The Science, the Ethics, and the
Civics
* Jeremy David Bendik- Keymer and Chris Haufe
* 37. Philosophy of Technology and the Environment Paul B. Thompson
* 38. The Ethics of Ecosystem Management Marion Hourdequin
* Part VII. Climate Change: The defining environmental problem of our
time
* 39. Mitigation: First Imperative of Environmental Ethics Henry Shue
* 40. Ethics and Climate Adaptation Clare Heyward
* 41. Climate Diplomacy Andrew Light
* 42. Geoengineering: Ethical Questions for Deliberate Climate
Manipulators Stephen M. Gardiner
* Part VIII. Social Change: Doing what we ought to do
* 43. Environmental Conflict David Schmidtz
* 44. Environmental Ethics, Sustainability Science, and the Recovery of
Pragmatism Ben A. Minteer
* 45. Sacrifice and the Possibilities for Environmental Action John M.
Meyer
* 46. From Environmental Ethics to Environmental Action Avner de Shalit
* Index