The environmental responsibility reader
By: Martin Reynolds, Chris Blackmore and Mark J. Smith, editors
Contributors: Open University
Publisher: Zed
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781848134010; 9781848133174; 9781848133181
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE; SCIENCE; Environmental responsibility; Environmental Science (see also Chemistry; Citizen participation; Environmental); Environmental protection; Environmental Policy; Public Policy
Description: The Environmental Responsibility Reader is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary environmental works that offers a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in environmental responsibility, steering the reader through each development in thought with a unifying and expert editorial voice.
Notes: Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: About the editors; About this book; Acknowledgements; Introduction to environmental responsibility; Reference; Part one; title: Ethical and cultural traditions; Introduction to part one; 1; title: Silent spring; Reading 1a: A fable for tomorrow; Reading 1b: And no birds sing; References; 2; title: The land ethic; The community concept; Substitutes for a land ethic; The outlook; 3; title: On values and obligations to the environment; Notes; References; 4; title: Environmental ethics; Introduction; Despair? Issues and values: normative ethics; Apathy? How to do ethics and be ethical: philosophical ethics.