9780415145091: Environmental Values
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ISBN 10: 0415145090 ISBN 13: 9780415145091
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

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We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming. In everyday life people mourn the loss of valued landscapes and urban spaces. Underlying these problems are conflicting priorities and values. Yet dominant approaches to policy-making seem ill-equipped to capture the various ways in which the environment matters to us.

Environmental Values introduces readers to these issues by presenting, and then challenging, two dominant approaches to environmental decision-making, one from environmental economics, the other from environmental philosophy. The authors present a sustained case for questioning the underlying ethical theories of both of these traditions. They defend a pluralistic alternative rooted in the rich everyday relations of humans to the environments they inhabit, providing a path for integrating human needs with environmental protection through an understanding of the narrative and history of particular places. The book examines the implications of this approach for policy issues such as biodiversity conservation and sustainability.

Written in a clear and accessible style for an interdisciplinary audience, this volume will be ideal for student use in environmental courses in geography, economics, philosophy, politics and sociology.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John O'Neill is  Professor of Political Economy at The University of Manchester.

Alan Holland is Emeritus Professor of Applied Philosophy at Lancaster University

Andrew Light is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415145090
ISBN 13 
9780415145091
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
250
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780415145084: Environmental Values

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ISBN 10:  0415145082 ISBN 13:  9780415145084
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007
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