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Ethics of the global environment / Robin Attfield.

This fully updated and expanded textbook offers new reflections on global environmental issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, while remaining sensitive to global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Attfield, Robin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Edition:2nd edition.
Series:Edinburgh studies in global ethics.
Subjects:
Environmental ethics.
Global environmental change > Moral and ethical aspects.
Environmental responsibility > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Concepts, theories and values
  • Nature and the global environment
  • Global ethics and environmental ethics
  • Trustees of the planet
  • The ethics of extinction
  • Part II. Applications and issues
  • Global resources and climate change
  • Sustainable development
  • Population and poverty
  • Biodiversity and preservation
  • Part III. Global justice and global citizenship
  • Environmental justice and world order
  • Sustainability: perspectives and principles
  • The ethics of climate change
  • World citizenship in a precarious world.