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Introduction: Should African philosophers care about the sub-Saharan environment? -- Peripherality and non-philosophy in African philosophy : Womanist philosophy, environmental philosophy and other provocations / Bruce B. Janz -- Gaia hypothesis from an African perspective / Alexander O. E. Animalu and Jeff Unaegbu -- How to ground animal rights on African values : a constructive approach / Thaddeus Metz -- An African account of the moral obligation to preserve biodiversity / Kevin G. Behrens -- Transformation of urban space in South-West Nigeria, 2011 to present : ethical issues in development and aesthetics / Olatunji A. Oyeshile -- Animal rights vs. animal care ethics : interrogating the relationship to non-human animals in Yorùbá culture / Ebunoluwa Olufemi Oduwole and Ademola Kazeem Fayemi -- Women and the environment in Africa / Workineh Kelbessa -- Women's identities in African environmental ethics : a conversational approach / Ademola Kazeem Fayemi and Oladele Abiodun Balogun -- Ohanife : an account of the ecosystem based on the African notion of relationship / Jonathan O. Chimakonam -- Hermeneutics of trees in an African context : enriching the understanding of the environment 'for the common heritage of humankind.' /Angela Roothaan -- Global warming as an ontological boomerang effect : towards a philosophical rescue from the African place / Victor C. A. Nweke -- Laudato Si and the ecological crisis / Ralph Okechukwu Madu -- Catalysing climate change action in Nigeria : moderate anthropocentrism and the African perspective of the cosmos / Ada Agada -- Zimbabwe's environmental crisis : questioning ubuntu? / Fainos Mangena -- Exploring the African traditional belief systems (totems and taboos) in natural resources conservation and management in Ghana / Francis Diawuo and Abdul Karim Issifu.

Many environmental scientists, scholars and activists characterise our situation as one of alienation from nature, but this notion can easily seem meaningless or irrational. In this book, Simon Hailwood critically analyses the idea of alienation from nature and argues that it can be a useful notion when understood pluralistically. He distinguishes different senses of alienation from nature pertaining to different environmental contexts and concerns, and draws upon a range of philosophical and environmental ideas and themes including pragmatism, eco-phenomenology, climate change, ecological justice, Marxism and critical theory. His novel perspective shows that different environmental concerns - both anthropocentric both anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric - can dovetail, rather than compete with, each other, and that our alienation from nature need not be something to be regretted or overcome. His book will interest a broad readership in environmental philosophy and ethics, political philosophy, geography and environmental studies

'Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism' by Padmasiri de Silva with a foreword by Alastair S. Gunn is reviewed.