Environmental ethics : the big questions /
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 t...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Series: | Philosophy: the big questions
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| Online Access: | http://bvbm2.bib-bvb.de:8993/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018920633&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
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| Summary: | 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/ |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 581 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [575]-581). |
| ISBN: | 1405176385 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405176393 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405176385 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405176392 (hardcover : alk. paper) |