Have, Henk A. M. J. : ten

Agius, Emmanuel

Attfield, Robin

Hattingh, Johan

Holland, Alan

Kwiatkowska, Teresa

Rolston, Holmes

Sagoff, Mark

Yang, Tongjin

Environmental Ethics and International Policy

Paris

2006

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Environmental concerns figure prominently in the work of the United Nations, and especially in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. One focus of UNESCO has to do with the ethical principles at stake in environmental sciences and policies. What is the moral valueof the environment? What in nature is worth protecting, preserving or respecting? What do we mean by global sustainability? How much should we care for the interests of future generations? What are the implications of the principle of justice for policy decisions related to environmenta! issues?

In this volume, eight experts in environmental ethics from around the world, advising the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology, come together to address these questions.The studies presented here analyse the state of the art in the reiatively new area of applied ethics that is environmental ethics.They also develop approaches to determining how international policy can promote ethical reflection about the environment. Such reflection is essential to the extent that it can provide strong moral incentives to make environmental policy effective.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Preface

Contributors

Introduction: environment, ethics and policy
Henk A. M J. ten Have

Towards an egalitarian global environmental ethics
Tongjin Yang

Intrinsic values on Earth: nature and nations
Holmes Rohton

Environmental ethics and global sustainability
Robin Attfield

Environmental ethics: towards an intergenerational perspective
Emmanuel Agius

Must we give up environmental ethics?
Alan Holland

Environmental ethics and environmental science
Mark Sagoff

Let Earth forever remain: putting environmental ethics to work
Teresa Kwiatkowska

The state of the art in environmental ethics äs a practical enterprise: a view from the Johannesburg documents
Johan Hattingh

Index