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Environmental Ethics: An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy

The text serves as an introduction to ethical theory as it applies to environmental issues and as a casebook on contemporary problems of science, industry, and individual decision-making. It provides a readable, yet philosophically careful survey of the field of environmental ethics. It is comprehensive, covering topics from the relevance of Aristotle's ethics for environmental issues to Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism.

Subject
philosophy
Themes
environment
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 277 pages

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