Environmental Ethics

Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, <i>Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions</i> contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s. <ul> <li>Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics</li> <li>Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field</li> <li>Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric precedents</li> <li>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</li> <li>Designed to be used with a web-site which contains a continuously updated archive of case studies: <p><span style=”font-family: “Calibri”,”sans-serif”; color: #1f497d; font-size: 11pt;”><a href=”http://environmentalethics.info/”>http://environmentalethics.info/</a></span></p>  </li> </ul>