ABSTRACT

As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues.
Global Ethics and Environment explores these ethical issues from a range of perspectives and using a wide range of case studies. Chapters focus on: the impact of development in new industrial regions; the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature; the application of ethics in different cultural and institutional contexts; environmental injustice in the location of hazardous materials and processes; the ethics of the impact of a single event (Chernobyl) on the global community; the ethics of transitional institutions.
This collection will both stimulate debate and provide an excellent resource for wide-ranging case study material and solid academic context.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

Towards global ethics

chapter |14 pages

An outline of the problems ahead

part |106 pages

Environmental justice: issues of principle

chapter |17 pages

Mapping human rights

chapter |25 pages

Ecological ethics from rights to recognition

Multiple spheres of justice for humans, animals and nature

part |97 pages

Global political justice

chapter |17 pages

Fairness matters

The role of equity in international regime formation

chapter |19 pages

Global ecological democracy

chapter |27 pages

Restructuring the space of democracy

The effects of capitalist globalization and the ecological crisis on the form and substance of democracy