Global Ethics and Environment

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Nicholas Low
Psychology Press, 1999 - Law - 320 pages

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.

 

Selected pages

Contents

towards global ethics
1
An outline of the problems ahead
16
Environmental justice challenges at home and abroad 33
33
Ecological balance in an era of globalization
47
Chernobyl global environmental injustice and mutagenic
70
Justice the market and climate change
90
Considerations on the environment of justice
109
Caresensitive ethics and situated universalism
131
Indigenous ecologies and an ethic of connection
175
multiple spheres
188
Indigenous peoples the conservation of traditional ecological
215
the role of equity in international regime
247
Global ecological democracy
264
the effects of capitalist
283
Index
310
Copyright

Ethics across the species boundary
146

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About the author (1999)

Nicholas Low is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. His book, Justice, Society and Nature (1998, Routledge), won the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association (USA) for the best book on ecological politics in 1998.

Bibliographic information

TitleGlobal Ethics and Environment
EditorNicholas Low
Editionillustrated
PublisherPsychology Press, 1999
ISBN0415197368, 9780415197366
Length320 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Law / Environmental
Nature / Ecology
Philosophy / Environmental
Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Science / Earth Sciences / Geography
Science / Environmental Science
Social Science / Activism & Social Justice
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Human Geography
Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General
  
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