African Environmental Ethics [electronic resource] : A Critical Reader /
Chemhuru, Munamato.editor.
This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational Environmentalism, ubuntu, African theocentric and teleological environmentalism are addressed in this book. It is unique in so far as it goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics by exploring how these views might be understood differently in order to conceptualize African environmental ethics. Against the background where environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, extinction of flora and fauna, and global warming are plain to see, it becomes useful to examine how African conceptions of environmental ethics could be understood in order to confront some of these problems facing the whole world. This book will be of value to undergraduate students, graduate students and academics working in the area of African Philosophy, African Environmental Ethics and Global Ethics in general. .
Chapter 1. Environmental Ethics in the Context of African Traditional Thought: Beyond the Impasse (Patrick Giddy) -- Chapter 2. The African Emphasis on Harmonious Relations: Implications for Environmental Justice and Ethics (John Mweshi) -- Chapter 3. The Moral Status of Nature: An African Understanding (Munamato Chemhuru). Chapter 4. Bantu Conceptions of Animals: Its Consequences for Animal Treatment (Grivas Muchneripi Kayange) -- Chapter 5. An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualism and Holism (Thaddeus Metz) -- Chapter 6. An African Land Ethic? The Viability of an Ecocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Ernst M. Conradie) -- Chapter 7. Environmental Justice: An African Perspective (Beatrice Okyere-Manu, Margaret Ssebunya, Morgan Nkansah) -- Chapter 8. An African Environmental Ethics as a Southern Environmental Ethics (Nompumelelo Zinhle Manzini) -- Chapter 9. An Environmentalist Critique of Secular Humanism in African Philosophy (Motsamai Melefe) -- Chapter 10.Environmental Values in Igbo Spirituality (Emmanuel Nweke Okafor) -- Chapter 11. Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics in Africa: From Anthropocentrism to Non-speciesism? (Kai Horsthemke) -- Chapter 12. Moral Status of Non Human Animal Rights From an African Perspective: In Defense of Moderate Anthropocentric Thinking (Dennis Masaka) -- Chapter 13. Decolonising Human-Animal Relations in an African Context: The Story of Mourning Elephants (Angela Roothaan) -- Chapter 14. Ubuntu and Environmental Ethics: The West can learn from Africa when faced with Climate Change (Aïda Terblanché-Greeff). Chapter 15. Ubuntu Environmental Ethics: Conceptions and Misconceptions (Ephraim Taurai Gwaravanda) -- Chapter 16. Accommodating an African Environmental Ethics in Naussbaum’s Capabilities Approach (Jessica du Plessis) -- Chapter 17. We have chopped down the Rain-making Tree: An African Ethical Concern for Agriculture (Garikai Madavo) -- Chapter 18. New Waves: African Environmental Ethics and Ocean Ecosystems (Michelle Clarke) -- Chapter 19. Cleanliness is Next to Godliness: A Theological Reflection on the Solid Waste Problem in Ghana (Rev. Afia Ban).
This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational Environmentalism, ubuntu, African theocentric and teleological environmentalism are addressed in this book. It is unique in so far as it goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics by exploring how these views might be understood differently in order to conceptualize African environmental ethics. Against the background where environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, extinction of flora and fauna, and global warming are plain to see, it becomes useful to examine how African conceptions of environmental ethics could be understood in order to confront some of these problems facing the whole world. This book will be of value to undergraduate students, graduate students and academics working in the area of African Philosophy, African Environmental Ethics and Global Ethics in general. .
Ethics.
Agricultural Ethics.
International Environmental Law.
Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.