Human Value, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability

The Precautionary Ecosystem Health Principle

By:

Mark Ryan

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders

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It is widely acknowledged that we have a duty to protect the environment. Yet, current environmental policy discussions demonstrate that fulfilling this in practice is a difficult, complex, and costly task. There are many ethical questions arising from such discussions. Should we care about the environment because it is economically valuable or because nature has intrinsic value? How do we establish an ethical trade-off between our current needs and those of future generations? Should we protect individual species or entire ecosystems instead? What way should we discuss societal values and ideals, or should scientific analysis take precedence within decision making practice? This book aims to tackle some of these thorny sustainability issues and responds to them with a cohesive, original alternative in the form of the precautionary ecosystem health principle (PEHP). It provides a detailed philosophical approach and advocates that a PEHP approach is able to overcome many of these stark and challenging difficulties within sustainability theory and environmental policy.

Author Biography:

Mark Ryan is a Teaching and Research Associate in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Release date NZ

October 3rd, 2016

Author

Mark Ryan

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

Illustrations, unspecified; Tables

Pages

220

Series

Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders

Dimensions

151x229x17

ISBN-13

9781783487981

Product ID

24206379

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