Environmental Ethics

Mfonobong David Udoudom, Okpe Okpe, Timothy Adie, Samuel Akpan Bassey

Abstract


Environmental ethics is an area that investigates the question of which ethical norms are appropriate for governing human interactions with the natural environment. Considered a branch of applied or practical ethics, environmental ethics has only existed as a subject since the late 1970s. However, concern about environmental problems is growing, and many philosophers claimed that the mainstream of ethics' only focus on humans' relationships with other humans leaving behind clear theoretical framework for ethically evaluating the relationship among humans and the nonhuman natural world. In response to this position, they recommended that a new field of inquiry was needed to investigate this matter directly. This paper looks into the thrust of environmental ethics. 

Keywords


Environmental ethics; Capitalism; Sustainable Development.

Full Text:

PDF

References


Ames, B N. “Identifying Environmental Chemicals Causing Mutations and Cancer.” Science 204.4393 (1979): 587–593. Web.

Ashton T.S., The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830 (London: Oxford University Press, 1948)

Bassey, Samuel Akpan. "Karl Marx Alienation and the Nigerian Workers." Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) 8th ser. 2.8 (2016): 1550-555. Web.

Boyd, Philip W. “Geopolitics of Geoengineering.” Nature Geoscience 2.12 (2009): 812–812. Web.

Brunekreef, Bert. “Air Pollution and Human Health: From Local to Global Issues.” Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. Vol. 2. N.p., 2010. 6661–6669. Web.

Das, Jatindra Kumar. Human Rights Law and Practice. S.L.: Prentice-Hall of India, 2016.

Gardiner, Stephen M. “A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption.” Environmental Values 15.3 (2006): 397–413. Web.

Gardiner, Stephen M. “Ethics and Global Climate Change*.” Ethics 114 (2004): 555–600. Web.

Hampicke, Ulrich. “Climate Change Economics and Discounted Utilitarianism.” Ecological Economics 72 (2011): 45–52. Web.

Kain, P. “Kantian Ethics.” Philosophical Review 119 (2010): 104–108.

Kelly, Frank J. “Oxidative Stress: Its Role in Air Pollution and Adverse Health Effects.” Occupational and Environmental Medicine 60.8 (2003): 612–616. Web.

Kelly, Frank J. “Oxidative Stress: Its Role in Air Pollution and Adverse Health Effects.” Occupational and Environmental Medicine 60.8 (2003): 612–616. Web.

Perez-Padilla, Rogelio. “Hidden Respiratory Disease-Associated Deaths.” International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 12.4 (2008): 458–464. Print.

Robinson, Andrea L. “The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate.” Science & Christian Belief 28.1 (2016): 48–50. Web.

Sandler, Sergeiy. “A Strange Kind of Kantian: Bakhtin???s Reinterpretation of Kant and the Marburg School.” Studies in East European Thought 67.3-4 (2015): 165–182. Web.

Schwartz, Priscilla. “The Polluter-Pays Principle.” Research Handbook on International Environmental Law (2005): 243–261. Web.

Shams, Falahud Din. “Statement of Faith: Holy Bible and Holy Qurán.” The Muslim Sunrise 91 (2011).

World Health Organization. “WHO Air Quality Guidelines for Particulate Matter, Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide: Global Update 2005: Summary of Risk Assessment.” Geneva: World Health Organization (2006): 1–22. Web.

Zillman, Donald N. Beyond the carbon economy: energy law in transition. Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2010. Print.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.33258/birci.v2i2.236

Article Metrics

Abstract view : 432 times
PDF - 355 times

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.