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Ethics of the global environment / Robin Attfield.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Edinburgh studies in global ethicsPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015Edition: 2nd edDescription: viii, 272 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780748654819 (pbk.)
  • 074865481X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 179.1 ATE 2015
Contents:
Part I. Concepts, theories and values -- Nature and the global environment -- Global ethics and environmental ethics -- Trustees of the planet -- The ethics of extinction -- Part II. Applications and issues -- Global resources and climate change -- Sustainable development -- Population and poverty -- Biodiversity and preservation -- Part III. Global justice and global citizenship -- Environmental justice and world order -- Sustainability: perspectives and principles -- The ethics of climate change -- World citizenship in a precarious world.
Summary: "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"--Back cover.
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Books Central Library, University of Rajshahi Reading Room Non-fiction 179.1 ATE 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-1 Not For Loan BDT B58636
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Includes bibliographical references (page 243-264) and index.

Part I. Concepts, theories and values -- Nature and the global environment -- Global ethics and environmental ethics -- Trustees of the planet -- The ethics of extinction -- Part II. Applications and issues -- Global resources and climate change -- Sustainable development -- Population and poverty -- Biodiversity and preservation -- Part III. Global justice and global citizenship -- Environmental justice and world order -- Sustainability: perspectives and principles -- The ethics of climate change -- World citizenship in a precarious world.

"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"--Back cover.

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