• ISBN13: 9781118494721
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
• Publication Date: June 7, 2013
• Pages: 416
• Original Price: USD 53.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 704 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Ethics & Moral Philosophy

From the Back Cover

The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays newly commissioned for this edition.

The volume includes a new discussion on ethical decision-making, as well as new coverage of pollution and climate change, and a new section on sustainability. Pedagogical features include cases and instructions on how to work-up cases into argumentative essays. The new edition has been designed to continue to meet the needs of classroom instruction with a dialogue that is both enriching and illuminating.

Michael Boylan is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author and editor of 26 books, including his manifesto on social/political philosophy A Just Society (2004), and on cosmopolitanism Morality and Global Justice: Justifications and Applications (2011). Boylan was himself the focus of an edited volume, Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's A Just Society (2009). He has served on professional and governmental policy committees and was a fellow at the Center for American Progress and a program presenter at The Brookings Institution. He has been an invited speaker in nine countries around the world, including talks in Oxford, Cambridge, Cologne, Oslo, Dublin, Sydney, and the Sorbonne.