• ISBN13: 9781032900544
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publisher Imprint: CRC Press
• Publication Date: June 2, 2025
• Pages: 178
• Original Price: USD 56.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 259 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Environmental Science

A comprehensive introductory textbook that integrates environmental ethics with social and religious perspectives. This cross-disciplinary approach helps students understand the depth and the breadth of environmental issues in a globally relevant way and the environmental debate, a critical factor of environmental management.

Emilio Chuvieco is Professor of Geography at the University of Alcalá, Spain, where he coordinates the Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group and is Director of the Environmental Ethics Chair. He is a correspondent member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences. He has taught postgraduate courses in twelve different countries. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Berkeley, Nottingham, Clark, Cambridge, Santa Barbara, Maryland, Oxford, and the Canada Center for Remote Sensing. He has coordinated 27 research projects and 20 contracts. He has supervised 43 Ph.D. theses and is co-author of 430 scientific papers and 26 books. His main research interest is the extraction of environmental information from Earth observation satellites, but he has also explored environmental ethics and how religious traditions have approached environmental protection, a topic on which he is involved on a DPHIL program at Oxford University.

María Ángeles Martín is professor of environmental impact assessment and landscape planning at the University of Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. She has a doctorate in biology from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She has been the principal investigator of a national CICYT project. She received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a master's degree in environmental policy at the Yale University School of Forestry. She has published a book with Professor Susan Clark from Yale University. She teaches environmental ethics in different Universities: Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain, University Francisco de Vitoria, Mexico, and Finis Terrae, Chile.