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The ethics of the global environment /
Learn how ethical principles and concepts apply to global environmental problems. This fully updated and expanded textbook gives you new reflections on global environmental issues. It looks at issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively add...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | 2nd edition. |
| Colección: | Edinburgh studies in world ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Learn how ethical principles and concepts apply to global environmental problems. This fully updated and expanded textbook gives you new reflections on global environmental issues. It looks at issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. Robin Attfield gives an ethical critique of current international environmental problems and negotiations, and explains how international regimes will need to change to be able to cope with global environmental problems. New for this edition. A new chapter on the ethics of climate change Up-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti's re-forestation project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi Dam New passages on lobbying websites and the Yasuni Reserve in Equador |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748654826 0748654828 9780748654864 0748654860 |