Environmental Ethics : The Big Questions

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Neuware - 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781405176385

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David R. Keller is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis (with Frank Golley, 2000), and co-author of Ethics in Action (with Peggy Connolly, Becky Cox-White, and Martin G. Leever, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), a case-based approach to introducing ethics and environmental issues.