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Author:

Attfield, Robin.

Title:

The ethics of the global environment / Robin Attfield.

Publisher:

Purdue University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

viii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Environmental ethics.
Global environmental change--Moral and ethical aspects.
Environmental responsibility--Moral and ethical aspects.

Notes:

"This edition available only in the United States and Canada" -- t.p. verso. Published under license from Edinburg University Press. Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.

Contents:

pt. 1. Concepts, theories and values. 1. Nature and the global environment -- 2. Global ethics and environmental ethics -- 3. Trustees of the planet -- 4. The ethics of extinction -- pt. 2. Applications and issues. 5. Global resources and climate change -- 6. Sustainable development -- 7. Population and poverty -- 8. Biodiversity and preservation -- pt. 3. Global justice and global citizenship. 9. Environmental justice and world order -- 10. Sustainability : perspectives and principles -- 11. World citizenship in a precarious world.

ISBN:

9781557531896
1557531897

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42761284

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)