Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1597265659 ISBN 13 : 9781597265652

Editeur : Island Press, 2010

Synopsis

The world's emerging water crisis has ignited efforts to reconnect policy to human values. According to the book, all approaches to managing water, no matter how grounded in empirical data, involve moral judgments and cultural assumptions. Each of the book's six sections discuses a different approach to thinking about the relationship between water and humanity, from utilitarianism to eco-feminism to religious beliefs. Contributors range from Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church to Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and water policy expert Sandra Postel. Water Ethics will help readers understand how various moral perspectives have guided and will continue to guide water policy around the globe.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter G. Brown is a Professor in the Departments of Natural Resource Sciences, Geography, and School of the Environment at McGill University. He is author of Restoring the Public Trust and The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth, and coauthor of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy.

Jeremy J. Schmidtis aPhD candidate and Trudeau Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Island Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1597265659
• ISBN 13: 9781597265652
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Brown Dr. Peter G., Schmidt Jeremy J.
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