Environment & Philosophy

This book is about the unconcern for, and subjugation of, the environment by philosophy in Africa. The issue of environment is still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in the sub-Saharan Africa. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Philosoph..

This book provides a new perspective on the topic of sacred natural sites and cultural heritage, by linking and embedding them within local Asian cultures...

Climate change is the greatest challenge civilization has ever faced.  This collection explores fundamental alternatives, for the sake of civil evolution._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Global Ethics..

This book assesses the implications of research for global water ethics and the idea of a water ethics charter. ..

This book gives a theoretical and practical demonstration of how ethics and technical considerations can aid the development of sustainability indexes to overcome the division in the literature and in aid sustainability initiatives. Guidelines for index development are combined with a pragmatic theo..

This book gives a theoretical and practical demonstration of how ethics and technical considerations can aid the development of sustainability indexes to overcome the division in the literature and in aid sustainability initiatives. Guidelines for index development are combined with a pragmatic theo..

This book focuses on nuclear waste management, which can work in democratic countries only if viewed as legitimate by the population. This book posits the inability of democracies to establish such legitimacy as an explanation for the current absence of public policy decisions that can identify a so..

The missing part in today’s environmental debate is an in-depth understanding of the idea of Naturalness, and what, if anything, it denotes. This book elucidates what we mean by "natural" in general and works out an original concept of naturalness that can serve as a guide to understand the real lim..

The missing part in today’s environmental debate is an in-depth understanding of the idea of Naturalness, and what, if anything, it denotes. This book elucidates what we mean by "natural" in general and works out an original concept of naturalness that can serve as a guide to understand the real lim..

This publication brings together for the first time, and in an interdisciplinary spirit, contemporary approaches to the study of plants provided by international scholars of established reputation, from both philosophy and relevant sustainability fields. It will be of great interest to students and ..

This textbook provides an overview of different ways of conceptualising nature in epistemological terms, reflecting the tensions between the polarities of humans as masters or protectors of nature, or as part of or outside of nature...

This textbook provides an overview of different ways of conceptualising nature in epistemological terms, reflecting the tensions between the polarities of humans as masters or protectors of nature, or as part of or outside of nature...