The Ethics Of The Global Environment

Your concise, up-to-date guide to global environmental ethics. This fully updated and expanded textbook offers new reflections on global environmental issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, while remaining sensitive to global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. It supplies an ethical critique of current international environmental problems and negotiations, and the shape which international regimes will need in order to cope with global environmental problems. Key features: - Takes a distinctive approach to climate ethics - Includes new chapter on the ethics of climate change - Contains up-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti's re-forestation project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi Dam (Laos) - Integrates environmental ethics with ethical theory - Includes new passages on environmental aesthetics, lobbying websites and the Yasuni Reserve in Ecuador Robin Attfield is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he has taught philosophy since 1968. He has also served as Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at a number of African institiutions. In 2008 he was awarded a D. Litt. by Cardiff University for contributions to environmental philosophy.