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Working toward sustainability : ethical decision making in a technological world /
"Because sustainability ultimately rests on ethics, this groundbreaking book is a crucial link in extending sustainability from a mere intellectual exercise to a broader spectrum. Ethics of Sustainability develops a comprehensive ethical foundation for sustainability by bringing together nine e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Wiley book on sustainable design.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Working toward Sustainability; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MAKING CONNECTIONS; SHIFTING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY; THE STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK; Chapter 1 A Context for Sustainability; THE RATIONALE FOR SUSTAINABILITY; Sustainability Interlude; A Response to a Crisis; CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES; Population and Consumption; Climate Change; Nonrenewable Resource Depletion; Loss of Biodiversity; Overfishing; Eutrophication; Desertification and Acidification; Poverty; Ecosystem Services and Quality of Life; THE ETHICAL CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY; THE THREE-LEG MODEL OF SUSTAINABILITY.
- CONCLUSIONChapter 2 The Technology Challenge; OVERVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY; Defining Technology; A Brief History of Technology; THE TECHNOLOGY PARADOX; Technological Optimism versus Technological Pessimism; Developing a More Nuanced View of the Impacts of Technology; CONSEQUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY; Predicting Consequences of Technology; Reducing the Uncertainty of Technology; Technology Risk Assessment, Acceptance, and Management; ALTERNATIVE, APPROPRIATE, AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY; THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 3 Introduction to Ethical Concepts.
- RELIGIOUS ETHICSCommon Ideals; Views of Human Nature; SECULAR AND PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICAL TRADITIONS; Justice; Deontological Ethics; Rights; Consequentialist Ethics; Objectivism and Ethical Relativism; Objectivism and Relativism in Sustainability; ETHICS AS A TOOL FOR MAKING DECISIONS; Framing Ethical Problems; Conflicting Values; THE THREE LEGS OF SUSTAINABILITY; Social Ethics; Environmental Ethics; Economic Ethics; Integrating the Three Legs; CONCLUSION; Chapter 4 Social Dimensions of Sustainability Ethics; JUSTICE, FAIRNESS, AND RECIPROCITY; The Golden Rule; Ethics of Care.
- DISTRIBUTIONAL PRINCIPLESDistribution in a Just Society; Distributing Disadvantages; EXPLORING INTERDEPENDENCE; Thinking Globally, Acting Locally; Life on Spaceship Earth; Environmental Justice; OBLIGATIONS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS; Intergenerational Justice; A Look Back at Looking Forward; Future Quality of Life; Beyond Seven Generations; CONCLUSION; Chapter 5 Environmental Dimensions of Sustainability Ethics; THE EMERGENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; The Birth of Modern Environmental Ethics; Environmentalism Becomes Mainstream; Undertones of the Sacred; RELIGION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS.
- Religion and NatureGreening Religion; ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; Development of Ecology; CARICATURES OF NATURE; A Closer World; CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; Getting the Scale of Ethics Right; Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and Social Ecology; Pluralistic Approaches; Bioregionalism; The New Agrarian Movement; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND NONHUMAN ANIMALS; Making a Case for the Individual; Mixed Communities; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND THE ETHICS OF SUSTAINABILITY; Identifying Values; Emphasizing Human Priorities; CONCLUSION.