Ethics And Global Environmental Policy

Author : H. ten Have
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231040391
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics and International Policy written by H. ten Have and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication, a joint initiative of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) and the UNESCO Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, contains essays written by eight leading international experts in this relatively new inter-disciplinary area of applied ethics. These papers consider the moral dimensions of environmental management issues and explores proposals for effective international policy-making to promote environmental objectives.

Author : Paul G. Harris
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085793161X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Global Environmental Policy written by Paul G. Harris and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weve had 20 years of government-level conferences at Kyoto, Copenhagen and Cancun, but greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Taking a cosmopolitan approach to climate change in this excellent and timely book, Paul Harris and his contributors argue that citizen action is an essential complement to state action. The challenging, unsettling and absolutely vital argument of these high quality essays is that distance makes no moral difference in our globalised world; individual high emitters have a duty to reduce their emissions, wherever they are. - Andrew Dobson, Keele, University, UK This collection of provocative essays re-evaluates the worlds failed policy responses to climate change, in the process demonstrating how cosmopolitan ethics can inform global environmental governance. A cosmopolitan worldview points to climate-related policies that are less international and more global. From a cosmopolitan perspective, national borders should not delineate obligations and responsibilities associated with climate change. Human beings, rather than the narrow interests of nation-states, ought to be at the centre of moral calculations and policy responses to climate change. In this volume, expert contributors examine questions of individual and global responsibility, burden sharing among people and states, international law and environmental justice, capitalism and voluntary action, pluralist cooperation and hegemony, and alternative approaches to climate action and diplomacy. The book helps to illuminate new principles for global environmental policy that can come from cosmopolitan conceptions of climate change.

Author : Charles H. Eccleston
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439847673
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Environmental Policy written by Charles H. Eccleston and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event. Focusing on development of proactive policies, Global Environment Policy: Concepts, Principles, and Practice provides the essential scientific and socioeconomic framework for formulating pragmatic and comprehensive environmental policies. It discusses topics of interest to American and international audiences. Beginning with basic concepts, the book proceeds successively on to more advanced principles, theories, and practices for developing and implementing comprehensive environmental policy solutions. Topics are introduced in a logical, yet connected, user-friendly manner. Using practical case studies and examples, the book illustrates both the power and limitations of theoretical approaches. It defines the scope and nature of the environmental policy problem, outlining its origins and evolution, and introduces the policy frameworks of the United Nations, European Union, and the United States. Each chapter begins with a case study and ends with a problem set; the questions are designed to elicit practical and critical thinking. The book ends with two capstone problems that exemplify nearly every major topic and aspect presented in this book. Upon completion, students should possess the competency required to examine a real world problem, evaluate it in terms of the concepts, principles, and tools described throughout the book, and develop a practical policy solution for resolving that problem.

Author : Frederick Ferré
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820316178
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Environmental Policy written by Frederick Ferré and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, leading environmentalists and philosophers explore the relationship between environmental ethics and policy, both in theory and practice. The first section of the book focuses on four approaches to change in ethical theory: ecological science, feminist metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, and holistic postmodern technology. In subsequent sections the contributors emphasize the need for nontraditional solutions and attempt to expand awareness of the most pressing practical problems. Among the topics discussed are the possibilities of real international cooperation, the inequitable but economically intractable issue of global gasses, the political and ethical challenges of city planning, and the growing evidence of fundamental inappropriateness in treating land as legal private property. This volume is based on essays presented in 1992 at the Second International Conference on Ethics and Environmental Policy. The conference was held in response to the increasing need for a new ethics that would counter the traditional human-centered, dominantly individualistic approach of the industrial world toward the environment.

Author : Robin Attfield
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654860
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics of the Global Environment written by Robin Attfield and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated and expanded textbook looks at issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity.

Author : Alexander Gillespie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of international environmental ethics shows how nations are creating environmental laws and policies which are continually inviting failure since such laws are riddled with inconsistencies and are contradictory in purpose.

Author : Dennis Soden
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824719890
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration written by Dennis Soden and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-07-16 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting case studies involving Rwanda, Nepal, Australia, Japan, and Mexico, including "real-time" policy and administrative questions, this versatile reference/text provides a wide perspective on national and international environmental problems and policies, featuring discussions with a regional emphasis as well as global significance. Pooling the work of over 60 international contributors in disciplines ranging from anthropology to political science, the Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration illustrates how environmental concerns are incorporated into administrative functions and policy processes.

Author : Robert Jay Goldstein
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics and Law written by Robert Jay Goldstein and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores a broad range of topics approaching environmental ethics from many different angles. A common thread running through the volume is the analysis of ethical principles as the backbone of practical policies and law for the benefit of the environment, and ultimately for the benefit of its inhabitants. The contributors are all at the forefront of their respective fields and fall into two essential categories: well-established scholars in the field of environmental ethics; and a group of newer voices that have followed what might be characterized as the first wave of environmental ethics scholarship.

Author : Ruchi Anand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351926861
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Environmental Justice written by Ruchi Anand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work satisfies the need for a thorough assessment of environmental justice concerns at the global level. Using three international environmental case studies, the book extends the theory of environmental justice, commonly used in domestic settings, to the international arena of environmental law, policy and politics. Spanning the traditional boundaries between political science, international relations, international law, international political economy and policy studies, this text is intended primarily for scholars of environmental justice, national and international policymakers, businesses, activists and students of international environmental law, public policy and political economy of the third world.

Author : Chukwumerije Okereke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134126883
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance written by Chukwumerije Okereke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, this book detailes the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it.