The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth: the future of our built environment - Couverture souple

Kirkman, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1441102809 ISBN 13 : 9781441102805

Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2010

Synopsis

The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth is about the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy. Decisions about the built environment have taken on a particular urgency in recent months. The financial crisis that began in the home mortgage system, the instability of fuel prices, and longterm projections of oil depletion and climate change are now intertwined with more conventional concerns about metropolitan growth, such as traffic flow and air quality. Now, it would seem, is an excellent time for clear thinking about what the built environment can and should become in the future.
Robert Kirkman argues that decisions about how to configure and live within the built environment have ethical dimensions that are sometimes hard to see, questions relating to wellbeing, justice, and sustainability.
This book provides practical guidance for sorting through the ethical implications surrounding metropolitan growth, bringing the most immediate concerns of ordinary people to the centre of environmental ethics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Kirkman is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. His previous publications include Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science (Indiana UP, 2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1441102809
• ISBN 13: 9781441102805
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Oliver Edwards; https://strengholt.nl/en/; ; 22 Liuleburgaz Str., floor 4, app. 9; Plovdiv; 4000; Bulgarie