Exploring Environmental Ethics : An Introduction

Kimberly K. Smith

ISBN 10: 3319773941 / ISBN 13: 9783319773940

Edité par Springer, Berlin, Springer International Publishing, Springer, 2018

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies. The intended reader is anyone who expects environmental stewardship to be an important part of his or her life, as a citizen, a policy maker, or an environmental management professional. In addition to discussing major issues in environmental ethics, it invites readers to think about how an ethicist's perspective differs from the perspectives encountered in other environmental studies courses. Additional topics covered include corporate social responsibility, ecological citizenship, property theory, and the concept of stewardship as a vocation.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Exploring Environmental Ethics : An Introduction
• Éditeur: Springer, Berlin, Springer International Publishing, Springer
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3319773941
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783319773940
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 242 L x 160 H x 13 P (en millimètres) 242 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 13 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 286 grammes

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Synopsis

This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies. The intended reader is anyone who expects environmental stewardship to be an important part of his or her life, as a citizen, a policy maker, or an environmental management professional. In addition to discussing major issues in environmental ethics, it invites readers to think about how an ethicist's perspective differs from the perspectives encountered in other environmental studies courses. Additional topics covered include corporate social responsibility, ecological citizenship, property theory, and the concept of stewardship as a vocation.

À propos de l?auteur

Kimberly Smith is Professor of Environmental Studies and Political Science at Carleton College, teaching courses in political theory, constitutional law, environmental ethics and environmental politics. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her publications include African American Environmental Thought (University Press of Kansas, 2007) and Governing Animals: Animal Welfare and the Liberal State (Oxford University Press, 2012).