Ecology, Economics, Ethics : The Broken Circle

Bormann, F Herbert; Kellert, Stephen R

ISBN 10: 0300049765 / ISBN 13: 9780300049763

Edité par Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, USA, 1991

A propos de cet article

First edition, first printing. xviii, 234pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, copper titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends, stain at bottom of front board. Light blue endpapers. Pages just starting to tan. Internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, mirrors volume damage. 8vo. A distinguished group of environmental experts argue that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes their relationships.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ecology, Economics, Ethics : The Broken Circle
• Éditeur: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, USA
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300049765
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300049763
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• Impression: 1st Impression
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

In this book a distinguished group of environmental experts argues that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relations, the interconnected circle, among ecology, economics, and ethics. Currently the circle is broken, they say, because environmental policy is decided on short-term estimations of material return that take little account of the economic or moral burdens that will be borne by future generations if we deplete our resources now. We must, assert the authors, have a better knowledge of the science underlying our environmental problems, we must understand their causes and consequences in relation to our economic and political systems, and we must recognize that an effective response will requre a shift in a technologically oriented society's ethical attitudes toward the natural environment. The authors address a wide range of concerns from global atmospheric degradation and spreading toxification to loss of forests and massive species extinctions. They offer to the general reader, students, and professionals practical assessments and remedies for many of these problems. They suggest, for example, mechanisms that provide economic incentives for conservation; engineering and technical adaptations to use resources more effectively and dispose of waste products; better economic accounting procedures for measuring the real environmental costs of our depletion of natural resources; and a remodelled education system that better prepares us to see each individual's responsibility to the environment.

Revue de presse

Un groupe de spécialistes reconnus se penche sur les questions écologiques : de leur point de vue, on ne trouvera une solution aux problèmes d'environnement que le jour où l'on reconnaîtra qu'écologie, économie et éthique sont liés. -- Idées clés, par Business Digest