ABSTRACT
The environmental crisis is one of humanity’s most urgent challenges. Researchers have undertaken analysis of this sphere since at least the 1970s, when interest in ecological issues started to grow. The many scholars concerned with the destruction of nature included ethicians, who started considering human–nature relations from a moral perspective. The renaissance of virtue ethics (described in Chapter 1) influenced ethicians concerned with environmental issues and led them to apply an aretological perspective to the environmental discussion. Thus, a new applied ethics was born: environmental virtue ethics (EVE). Chapter 2 presents the main issues discussed in EVE, the most important works, representatives of the discipline, and a response to criticism to EVE.
