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As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues. Global Ethics and Environment explores these ethical issues from a range of perspectives and using a wide range of case studies. Chapters focus on: the impact of development in new industrial regions; the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature; the application of ethics in different cultural and institutional contexts; environmental injustice in the location of hazardous materials and processes; the ethics of the impact of a single event (Chernobyl) on the global community; the ethics of transitional institutions. This collection will both stimulate debate and provide an excellent resource for wide-ranging case study material and solid academic context. As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues. Global Ethics and Environment explores these ethical issues from a range of perspectives and using a wide range of case studies. Chapters focus on: the impact of development in new industrial regions; the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature; the application of ethics in different cultural and institutional contexts; environmental injustice in the location of hazardous materials and processes; the ethics of the impact of a single event (Chernobyl) on the global community; the ethics of transitional institutions. This collection will both stimulate debate and provide an excellent resource for wide-ranging case study material and solid academic context.

Title Global ethics and environment / editor, Nicholas Low.
Additional Titles Global ethics & environment
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1999
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Introduction Nicholas Low. An Outline of the Problems Ahead Arne Naess. Part I: Environmental Justice Challenges. Environmental Justice Challenges at Home and Abroad Robert Bullard. Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalisation Vandana Shiva. Chernobyl, Global Environmental Injustice and Mutagenic Threats Kristin Shrader-Frechette. Justice, the Market and Climate Change Clive Hamilton. Part II: Environmental Justice: Issues of Principle. Considerations on the Environment of Justice David Harvey. Care Sensitive Ethics and Situated Universalism Karen Warren. Ethics Across the Species Boundary Peter Singer. Mapping Human Rights Tom Regan. Indigenous Ecologies and an Ethics of Connection Deborah Rose. Ecological Ethics from Rights to Recognition: Multiple Spheres of Justice for Humans, Animals and Nature Val Plumwood. Part III: Global Political Justice. Indigenous People, the Conservation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Goveranance Henrietta Fourmile. Fairness Matters: The Role of Equity in International Regime Formation Oran Young. Global Ecological Democracy John Dryzek. Restructuring the space of democracy, the effects of capitalist globalization and the ecological crisis on the form and substance of democracy Elmar Altvater.
Extent 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997010702799105171
MARC RECORDS

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