Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence

By Richard G. Botzler and Susan J. Armstrong

Book Overview

This anthology offers a comprehensive collection of articles on the topic of environmental ethics. The contributions examine diverse approaches to environmental ethics from a variety of disciplines,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072838450
• ISBN13: 9780072838459
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 609 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent introduction to key environmental debates

A very useful undergraduate level reader in environmental ethics. I use it in the course I teach in the UK. It would also make a good tool for self-teaching or for self-led small group study. For each chapter of readings there are discussion topics, an exercise, suggestions for a debate and a selection of further reading. The wide-ranging readings are carefully chosen, edited and arranged into key themes such as morality, aesthetics, ecofeminism and environmetnal ethics in society. The only other book to cover similar material in a similar manner is Louis Pojman's 'Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Practice'. In my opinion they are equally valuable, making it difficult (should it be neccessary) to choose between them. From a British perspective they both lack historical depth. Botzler and Armstrong's book has only two readings from the eighteenth century or earlier (St Francis and Kant) but this can be supplied from elsewhere if needed.