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Refounding Environmental Ethics: Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice

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Providing a bold and original rethinking of environmental ethics, Ben Minteer'sa"Refounding Environmental Ethics"awill help ethicists and their allies resolve critical debates in environmental policy and conservation practice.

Minteer considers the implications of John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy for environmental ethics, politics, and practice. He provides a new and compelling intellectual foundation for the fieldOCoone that supports a more activist, collaborative and problem-solving philosophical enterprise.

Combining environmental ethics, democratic theory, philosophical pragmatism, and the environmental social sciences, Minteer makes the case for a more experimental, interdisciplinary, and democratic style of environmental ethicsOCoone that stands as an alternative to the field's historically dominant OC nature-centeredOCO outlook.

Minteer also provides examples of his pragmatic approach in action, considering a wide range of application and issues, including invasive species, ecological research, biodiversity loss, protected area management, and conservation under global climate change.

Language: English

Pages: 214

Format: Hardcover

Release: November 04, 2011

ISBN 13: 9781439900833

Refounding Environmental Ethics: Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice

0/5 ( ratings)

Providing a bold and original rethinking of environmental ethics, Ben Minteer'sa"Refounding Environmental Ethics"awill help ethicists and their allies resolve critical debates in environmental policy and conservation practice.

Minteer considers the implications of John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy for environmental ethics, politics, and practice. He provides a new and compelling intellectual foundation for the fieldOCoone that supports a more activist, collaborative and problem-solving philosophical enterprise.

Combining environmental ethics, democratic theory, philosophical pragmatism, and the environmental social sciences, Minteer makes the case for a more experimental, interdisciplinary, and democratic style of environmental ethicsOCoone that stands as an alternative to the field's historically dominant OC nature-centeredOCO outlook.

Minteer also provides examples of his pragmatic approach in action, considering a wide range of application and issues, including invasive species, ecological research, biodiversity loss, protected area management, and conservation under global climate change.

Language: English

Pages: 214

Format: Hardcover

Release: November 04, 2011

ISBN 13: 9781439900833

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