Environmental Values

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-415-14509-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts

We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming. In everyday life people mourn the loss of valued landscapes and urban spaces. Underlying these problems are conflicting priorities and values. Yet dominant approaches to policy-making seem ill-equipped to capture the various ways in which the environment matters to us.

Environmental Values introduces readers to these issues by presenting, and then challenging, two dominant approaches to environmental decision-making, one from environmental economics, the other from environmental philosophy. The authors present a sustained case for questioning the underlying ethical theories of both of these traditions. They defend a pluralistic alternative rooted in the rich everyday relations of humans to the environments they inhabit, providing a path for integrating human needs with environmental protection through an understanding of the narrative and history of particular places. The book examines the implications of this approach for policy issues such as biodiversity conservation and sustainability.

Written in a clear and accessible style for an interdisciplinary audience, this volume will be ideal for student use in environmental courses in geography, economics, philosophy, politics and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neill, John

Holland, Alan

Light, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Umweltethik, Umweltphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Values and the Environment Part 1: Utilitarian Approaches to Environmental Decision Making 2. Human Well-Being and the Natural World 3. Consequentialism and its Critics 4. Equality, Justice and Environment 5. Value Pluralism, Value Commensurability and Environmental Choice Part 2: A New Environmental Ethic? 6. The Moral Considerability of the Non-Human World 7. Environment, Meta-Ethics and Intrinsic Value 8. Nature and the Natural Part 3: The Narratives of Nature 9. Nature and Narrative 10. Biodiversity: Biology as Biography 11. Sustainability and Human Well-Being 12. Public Decisions and Environmental Goods

Über Autor(innen)

John O'Neill is Professor of Political Economy at The University of Manchester.
Alan Holland is Emeritus Professor of Applied Philosophy at Lancaster University
Andrew Light is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle.