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The book examines issues in environmental justice, as part of the broader discourse on environmental ethics. Its focuses on issues relating to consumption, environmental problems, global warming and climate change. It examines solutions to some of these problems from some perspectives including from African and Native American philosophies.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Environmental Justice, Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability
Chapter 2: Principles of Environmental Justice, Global Ecological Footprint and Biodiversity
Chapter 3: Population and the Debate on Ecological Deficit
Chapter 4: Consumerism and the Debate on Ecological Deficit
Chapter 5: Redistribution of Resources and Ecological Deficit
Chapter 6: Global Warming and Climate Change
Chapter 7: The UNFCCC and Climate Change
Chapter 8: The Three Obligations in the UNFCCC and Climate Change
Chapter 9: Beneficence and Justice in the UNFCCC's Three Obligations
Chapter 10: The Obligations of Beneficence and Justice in the UNFCCC
Chapter 11: Some Problems for the UNFCCC and the Obligations
Chapter 12: The Tragedy of the Commons and Climate Change
Chapter 13: Alternate Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons for Climate Change
Chapter 14: Non-Western Perspectives on the Environment: Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism
and Buddhism)
Chapter 15: Non-Western Perspectives on the Environment: Native American and African
Worldviews
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Edwin Etieyibo is professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Summary
The book examines issues in environmental justice, as part of the broader discourse on environmental ethics. Its focuses on issues relating to consumption, environmental problems, global warming and climate change. It examines solutions to some of these problems from some perspectives including from African and Native American philosophies.
