The Ethics of the Environment
This is a book Robin was invited to edit, which collects and includes 33 essays central to environmental ethics.
The Ethics of the Environment (The International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics) 2008
It is one of the volumes of the International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics, and has become one of the standard collections of classical texts in this field. The seven parts are entitled: ‘Values and the Environment’, ‘The Land Ethic and Deep Ecology’, ‘Biocentric Approaches’, ‘Virtue Ethics and Human Values’, ‘Equity and the Future’, ‘Preservation, Development and Sustainability’ and ‘Making a Difference’. Robins main contribution was to supply an introductory essay. The collection also carries an index of names. The publisher of this 2008 volume, Ashgate, was subsequently acquired by Routledge in 2015.
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This book brings together over thirty of the foremost contributions to environmental ethics, from pioneering papers to recent work at the cutting edge of thought in this field. It also unites them through an innovative introductory essay which appraises both strengths and weaknesses and presents a distinctive view of the subject. Areas covered include the land ethic, Deep Ecology, biocentric approaches, environmental virtue ethics, feminist contributions, debates on equity and on the interests and representation of future generations, preservation, sustainability and sustainable development. The importance of attempts to discover a comprehensive ethic relevant both to the environment and other key areas of ethical debate is highlighted. Robin Attfield has been working in this field for thirty years, and has published several related collections and monographs, of which the latest is Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century, published by Polity in 2003. The Ethics of The Environment complements that work, from which it incorporates a significant extract about the considerable practical difference that environmental ethics is capable of making.