By Sahotra Sarkar
- Encompasses all of environmental philosophy, together with conservation biology, recovery ecology, sustainability, environmental justice, and more
- Offers the 1st therapy of selection thought in an environmental philosophy text
- Explores the conceptions of nature and moral presuppositions that underlie modern environmental debates, and, relocating from concept to perform, indicates how determination conception interprets to public policy
- Addresses either hot-button concerns, together with inhabitants and immigration reform, and such ongoing concerns as old legacies and international locations' accountability and legal responsibility for environmental problems
- Anchors philosophical options to their sensible functions, setting up the concern of the discipline's real-world importance
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