Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Author: William L. Ascher

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2002-03-29

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0822381036

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The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental governance, it also provides detailed and balanced discussions about specific environmental issues. The guide combines formal, objective entries with critical commentaries that emphasize different opinions and controversies. With succinct explanations of more than a thousand terms, thoughtful interpretations by international experts, and helpful cross-referencing, this resource is designed to serve as a roadmap for understanding the issues and debates in the overlapping fields of environment and development. Intended for use by activists, journalists, policymakers, students, scholars, and interested citizens, the Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy will be a helpful tool for anyone trying to get a comprehensive look at the many environmental organizations, schools of thought, development programs, international environmental treaties, conventions, and strategies that have proliferated in the past few decades.

Ethics for Disaster
Ethics for Disaster

Author: Naomi Zack

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-05-12

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1538179660

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Ethics for Disaster shows how individual and government preparation and response to hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, pandemics, and other disasters are ethical matters. Confronting the social inequalities revealed by these disasters, we must also acknowledge how the lack of preparation for climate change and pandemics has shifted these threats from modern, isolated disasters into constant contemporary risks. This second edition presents four new chapters about disaster-as-risk from; climate change, the natural elements of earth, air, wind, and fire; the COVID-19 and other pandemics; and innocent victims and refugees. Now more than ever, we need good and just moral principles to guide us through the disruptive crises ahead––especially for minorities. Humanism and humanitarianism are vital. Zack combines moral philosophy, political theory, public policy, and environmental science to present new ways to think about changes in the world we all share.

The Lifeboat
The Lifeboat

Author: Charlotte Rogan

Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0316202843

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The sinking of an ocean liner leaves a newly married woman battling for survival in this powerful debut novel. Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life. In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die. As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it? The Lifeboat is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.

Six Billion and More
Six Billion and More

Author: Susan Bratton

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780664251864

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Drawing on information from demographers, economists, ecologists, and sociologists, Bratton argues that individuals should use Christian values when dealing with the regulation of human population. "Theological groundwork for developing a Christian contraceptive ethos".--Carol Benson Holst, Ministry for Population Concerns.

Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice

Author: Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-09-26

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0198034709

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Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation--and then bringing them to bear on real-world social issues--she shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population, among them Appalachians, African-Americans, workers in hazardous jobs, and indigenous people in developing nations. She argues that burdens like pollution and resource depletion need to be apportioned more equally, and that there are compelling ethical grounds for remedying our environmental problems. She also argues that those affected by environmental problems must be included in the process of remedying those problems; that all citizens have a duty to engage in activism on behalf of Environmental Justice; and that in a democracy it is the people, not the government, that are ultimately responsible for fair use of the environment.

The Ethics of the Environment
The Ethics of the Environment

Author: Robin Attfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 1351890417

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This book brings together over thirty of the foremost contributions to environmental ethics, from pioneering papers to recent work at the cutting edge of thought in this field. It also unites them through an innovative introductory essay which appraises both strengths and weaknesses and presents a distinctive view of the subject. Areas covered include the land ethic, Deep Ecology, biocentric approaches, environmental virtue ethics, feminist contributions, debates on equity and on the interests and representation of future generations, preservation, sustainability and sustainable development. The importance of attempts to discover a comprehensive ethic relevant both to the environment and other key areas of ethical debate is highlighted. Robin Attfield has been working in this field for thirty years, and has published several related collections and monographs, of which the latest is Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century, published by Polity in 2003. The Ethics of The Environment complements that work, from which it incorporates a significant extract about the considerable practical difference that environmental ethics is capable of making.

LIFEBOAT AESTHETICS
LIFEBOAT AESTHETICS

Author: PHILLIP BALDWIN

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1365228886

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A good rationality? The only rationality. These rooms are designed and efficient when stacked against others. When stacked against themselves they appeared to be curved or at lease they could be curved....what would that do to our consciousness? If They exist as curved rooms? Could we see the patterns emerging after They exist as blips upon the EEG memory. What about the pundits who have designed and built them for us? They are looking for the regular within the regular. Standardizing the working class soul? I passed by the clay matrons and they work in circles always circles. They try to complete the mistakes that the machine put them into: orbits. Especially at a time they should break from orbits. Moving forward the text emerges towards the self: using a machine, what can we do over? And then in an OCD effort, the obsessive-compulsive effort, circularity, just a center of there being. And they're being is one of unhappiness. Time to cut the trajectory...the gravitational pull of 'the mistake'.