Exploring Environmental Ethics

Download or read book Exploring Environmental Ethics written by Kimberly K. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies. The intended reader is anyone who expects environmental stewardship to be an important part of his or her life, as a citizen, a policy maker, or an environmental management professional. In addition to discussing major issues in environmental ethics, it invites readers to think about how an ethicist's perspective differs from the perspectives encountered in other environmental studies courses. Additional topics covered include corporate social responsibility, ecological citizenship, property theory, and the concept of stewardship as a vocation.