In this study, Clare Palmer challenges the belief that the process thinking of writers like A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne has offered an unambiguously positive contribution to environmental ethics. She compares process ethics to a variety of other forms of environmental ethics, as well as deep ecology, and reveals a number of difficulties associated with process thinking about the environment.
Providing a unique analysis of the growing social and environmental responsibility within the corporate sector, this book discusses corporate innovation, entrepreneurial approaches and corporate culture.
This volume focuses on the role of businesses in protecting the environment, utilizing studies of previous cases as well as current strategies and methods of possible future corporate conduct. The book provides an overview of the topic of business, ethics, and the environment, a series of recent cases and analyses, current and proposed corporate strategies, and suggestions for future approaches to business and environmental problems.
This volume studies the ethical obligations that businesses may have for protecting the environment. It explores the public policy debate of how to regulate corporations--or how corporations should regulate themselves--to deal with important environmental issues. The essays are grouped in three separate sections, covering business and government interaction, public attitudes and involvement in environmental issues, and environmental problems and solutions. The focus throughout is on specific environmental issues and case studies.
Global Ethics and Environment explores several ethical issues from a range of perspectives and uses a wide range of case studies. The book focuses on the impact of development in new industrial regions and the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature. The editors also discuss the ethics of the impact of a single event, like the Chernobyl disaster, on the global community.
This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that every living organism has interests which ought, other things being equal, to be protected, Varner contends that some interests take priority over others. He defends both a sentientist principle giving priority to the lives of organisms with conscious desires and an anthropocentric principle giving priority to certain very inclusive interests which only humans have. He then shows that these principles not only comport with but provide significant support for environmental goals.
Much has been written in recent years on environmental ethics relating to the more general 'natural' environment but little specifically written about ethics of the built environment. Ethics and the Built Environment responds to this need and offers a debate on the ethical dimension of building in all its forms from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and approaches.This book should be of interest to architects, students of building and building design, environmentalists, politicians and general readers with an interest in ethics.