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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: PHILOSOPHY -- 1 Toward an Earth Ethic: Aldo Leopold's Anticipation of the Gaia Hypothesis -- 2 Climate Change, Environmental Ethics, and Biocentrism -- 3 Moral Ambiguities in the Politics of Climate Change -- 4 Ethical and Prudential Responsibilities, Culture and Climate Change -- PART II: GOVERNANCE -- 5 Closing the Boxes, Enlarging the Circles: Toward a New Paradigm of Global Governance and Economy -- 6 Climate Change Policy with a Renewed Environmental Ethic: An Ecological Economics Approach -- 7 Two Global Crises, Ethics Renewal, and Governance Reform -- PART III: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- 8 Climate Change, Developing Countries, and Human Rights: An International Law Perspective -- 9 Future Generations' Rights: Linking Intergenerational and Intragenerational Rights in Ecojustice -- 10 Climate Change and Poverty: Confronting Our Moral and Ethical Commitments: Some Reflections -- PART IV: CIVIL SOCIETY -- 11 Soft Power, NGOs, and Climate Change: The Case of The Nature Conservancy -- 12 Climate Changes Everything -- PART V: CASE STUDIES -- 13 Trends and Impacts of Climate Change in Cameroon, Central Africa: Considerations for Renewed Ethics towards Resilience Options for the Community -- 14 Addressing Climate Change: Challenges, Ethics, and Hope -- Contributors

Possibilities are not neutral. Our engagement with the possible – the possibilities we value and the possibilities we ignore – will, to a degree, always be constrained by the moral universe we inhabit. Philosophy has always been concerned with normative questions – how should we live, what should we value? With growing inequality, rapid and potentially destructive technological development, and multiple environmental crises, the limits of traditional ethical and political philosophies are becoming apparent, particularly in areas focused on novel technologies and the environment. There can be an extremely fruitful dialogue between Possibility Studies and environmental ethics in examining the possibility of realising novel ethical frameworks to help us navigate the myriad problems of the world.

Abstract
This paper employs the concept of deep time to supply a philosophical argument about the kind of environmental ethics required in the present. Considerations from the evolutionary past are deployed to support the intrinsic value of health and well-being in addition to that of pleasure. The well-being of a species is held to consist in that of its individual members, past, present and future. Duties to species accordingly include promoting the well-being of future species members, since the impacts of human actions in a technological age are spread out across the future. These impacts include impacts on non-human species after humanity has become extinct; if these impacts matter, then a non-anthropocentric ethic is needed to explain why they do, since an anthropocentric ethics is incapable of explaining this.

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are becoming increasingly important. In this work, Robin Attfield traces the origins of environmental ethics as a discipline, and considers how it defends the independent value of living creatures, and the need to make decisions informed by the needs and interests of future generations. Exploring the diverse approaches to ethical decisions and judgements, he highlights the importance of making processes of production and consumption sustainable and of addressing human population levels, together with policies for preserving species, sub-species, and their habitats.

Environmental ethics is an area that investigates the subject of which ethical norms are suitable for governing human relations with the natural environment. The association among humanity and her environment turn out to be an ethical dilemma amid the twentieth century, when accelerated economic and scientific development was convoyed by deep modifications in our global ecological systems. In response, environmental ethics calls for restrictions to this dichotomous association between man and nature. This paper unites the existing literatures on environmental ethics, asking for a move from philosophical postulations to tangible action so as to save our world.

Volume 1. Foreword -- Introduction -- Afterword -- List of articles -- Contributors -- Thematic outline -- Encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy Abbey to Israel -- Volume 2. Encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy Jackson to Wright -- List of appendices -- Text acknowledgments -- Glossary -- List of primary sources -- Primary sources -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.

Environmental ethics is an academic subfield of philosophy concerned with normative and evaluative propositions about the world of nature and, perhaps more generally, the moral fabric of relations between human beings and the world we occupy. This Handbook contains forty-five newly commissioned essays written by leading experts and emerging voices. The essays range over a broad variety of issues, concepts, and perspectives that are both central to and characteristic of the field, thus providing an authoritative but accessible account of the history, analysis, and prospect of ideas that are essential to contemporary environmental ethics.