Environmental Ethics
Subtitle: an Introduction and Learning Guide
By: editors, Rainer Paslack, Gamze Isildar
Contributors: Paslack, Rainer, editor; Isildar, Gamze, editor; Vrind, Rob de, editor; Simon, Jürgen, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781351277808
Subjects: Environmental ethics; Environmental responsibility; Éthique de l'environnement; Responsabilité environnementale
Description: "As the destructive consequences of environmental problems such as global warming, water scarcity and resource and biodiversity destruction have been felt ever more heavily, people are becoming more aware of the importance of and their responsibilities towards environmental protection. The causes of our problems are anthropogenic. The number of people working in what might be termed "environmental industries" or with environmental responsibilities in their day-to-day work has mushroomed. In many cases, however, individuals charged with protecting the environment have a set of empirical priorities: what *is* done, rather than moral priorities which consider what *should* be done. The need to harmonize environmental knowledge with ethical behaviour and thus achieve behavioural change and the internalization of environmentally ethical values has never been more urgent. This book, developed as part of an EU programme to diffuse the application of environmental ethics to decision-making on pollution control, is a response to the need for a restatement of environmental ethics and for a code of behaviour and set of values that can be internalised and adopted to guide the actions by individuals at the sharp end of protecting the environment: decision-makers and environmental experts/executives/staff working in municipalities and public/government organisations throughout the EU and Turkey. It is nothing short of an ethical training manual that will guide environmental experts/decision-makers in making sound judgements and decisions and will act as a bridge between environmental knowledge and environmental behaviour. The book will be essential reading for decision-makers and experts working in local authorities and governmental organisations with responsibility for environmental protection: for both graduate and postgraduate students in environment-related disciplines and for vocational education teachers with a focus on the environment."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction to environmental ethics  -- Gamze Yücel Isildar; title: chapter 2 Ethics --; title: The search for decision criteria  -- Kees Vromans; title: chapter 3 The challenge to environmental ethics  -- Rainer Paslack; title: chapter 4 Main approaches to environmental ethics  -- Kees Vromans Rainer Paslack; title: chapter 5 The need for political and legal regulation  -- Rainer Paslack Jürgen W. Simon; title: chapter 6 From environmental ethics to sustainable decision-making  -- Rob de Vrind; title: chapter 7 Summary.