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This innovative book takes a new look at environmental ethics and the need for ecological and biological integrity. Laura Westra explores the necessity for radical alteration not only of interpersonal ethics, but also of social institutions and public policy. In the process, Westra denies the validity of majority rule in environmentally ethical concerns. Issues discussed in the book include the link between ecological integrity and human health; an environmental evaluation of business and technology; biotechnology and transgenics in agriculture and aquaculture; and the environmental ethics of the ancient Greeks and Kant. Living in Integrity is a valuable book for philosophers and environmentalists alike.
Table des matières
Part 1 Part 1
Chapter 2 Living with Integrity: The Problems and the Promise
Chapter 3 The Link between Ecological Integrity and Human Health in the Present and the Future: Second-Order Principles
Chapter 4 Environmental Risks, Rights, and the Failure of Liberal Democracy: Some Possible Remedies
Part 5 Part II
Chapter 6 Why We Need a Nonanthropocentric Environmental Evaluation of Technology for Public Policy
Chapter 7 Development and Environmental Racism: The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni
Chapter 8 Biotechnology and Transgenics in Agriculture and Aquaculture: The Perspective from Ecosystem Integrity
Part 9 Part III
Chapter 10 The Greeks and Kant: The Quest for Compatible Ethics
Chapter 11 Integrity, Public Policy, and the Law: A Question of Sustainability
Chapter 12 From Living with Integrity to Living in Integrity: Second-Order Principles for a Global Ethic
Chapter 13 A Design for a Global Ethic
Chapter 14 Index
A propos de l'auteur
Laura Westra has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence from Osgoode Hall Law School, and has taught in the fields of philosophy, ethics, and environmental law at several universities including University of Windsor, Canada and University of Parma, Italy. She has published 37 books (monographs and collections) and over 90 articles and chapters in books, and is the founder and director of the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) since 1992.
