Environmental Ethics

Clare Palmer is a lecturer at the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom.

• Introduction: what is environmental ethics; the study of environmental ethics - natural law and virtues approaches, deontology, consequentialist approaches, questions about value; analyzing issues in environmental ethics: applying traditional ethical analyses to environmental issues, extending traditional analyses, deep ecology, social ecology, and ecofeminism; the major issues today; environmental ethics and future. Chronology. Biographical sketches: historically important figures in environmental ethics; current contributors to work in environmental ethics. Major issues in environmental ethics: agriculture; atmospheric pollution; biodiversity; climate change; deforestation; ecosystems; energy resources; Gaia; genetic engineering; hunting and fishing; natural resource depletion; nuclear power and weapons; population; sustainable development and future generations; tourism; transportation; waste; water resources; wilderness. Environmental ethics and environmental law: sources of US environmental law; environmental ethics and the law; environmental ethics and key US environmental regulations - Wilderness Act of 1964, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 1970, Endangered Species Act (ESA) 1973 (and amendments); environmental ethics and key US court cases - Sierra Club versus Morton Supreme Court of the United States no 70-34 1972, Peck versus Dunn Supreme Court of Utah 574 p.2d 367 1978, Tennesse Valley Authority versus Hill et al Supreme Court of the United States no 76-1701 1978. Codes of practice in environmental ethics: principles from umbrella/sector organizations - CERES principles, the ICC business charter for sustainable development; further umbrella/sector codes - Volkswagon environmnet policy, IBM corporate environmental policy, university of Edinburgh environmental policy statement; codes of professional ethics - the American Institute of Architects, Institution of Engineers Australia. Annotated directory of organizations: Academic centres for environmental ethics; environmental special interest groups; federal agencies; national professional organizations; international professional organizations. Selected print resources: reference works; books; selected articles; reports proceedings; periodicals. Selected nonprint resources: videos and filsm; CD-ROMs and software; online databases, forums and websites - e-mail forums, Internet resources.

…there is more than enough solid information to get anyone started on research on almost anything in environmental philosophy or environmental issues. All levels.