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Environmental ethics

Index Environmental ethics

Environmental ethics is the part of environmental philosophy which considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including humans to including the non-human world. [1]

85 relations: A Sand County Almanac, Adam and Eve, Alan Marshall (New Zealand author), Aldo Leopold, Anarcho-primitivism, Ansel Adams, Aristotle, Arne Næss, Baruch Spinoza, Biocentrism (ethics), Bioethics, Biotic ethics, Bowling Green State University, Clearcutting, Climate ethics, Colorado State University, Conservation (ethic), Conservation movement, Crop art, Dartington, Deep ecology, Deutsches Museum, Earth Day, Earth Economics, Ecocentrism, Ecofeminism, Ecological economics, Ecology, EcoQuest, Ecotheology, Environmental design, Environmental engineering, Environmental Ethics (journal), Environmental health ethics, Environmental law, Environmental movement, Environmental organization, Environmental philosophy, Environmental racism, Environmental resource management, Environmental skepticism, Environmental sociology, Environmental studies, Environmental Values, Environmental virtue ethics, Environmentalism, Extinction, Gaia hypothesis, Garrett Hardin, Hans Jonas, ..., Holism, Hudson River School, Human ecology, Industrial Revolution, Integrated geography, Internal combustion engine, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, James Lovelock, John L. O'Sullivan, John Muir, Kyoto Protocol, List of environmental philosophers, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Lynn Townsend White Jr., Manifest destiny, Michael A. Smith, Peter Singer, Peter Vardy (theologian), Population control, Rachel Carson, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Resource depletion, Schumacher College, Self-validating reduction, Sierra Club, Solastalgia, Speciesism, Sustainability, Terraforming, Thought experiment, Trail ethics, University of Greifswald, University of Montana, University of North Texas, Van Rensselaer Potter. Expand index (35 more) »

A Sand County Almanac

A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There is a 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold.

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Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman.

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Alan Marshall (New Zealand author)

Alan Marshall is a New Zealand author, artist, & scholar working within the discipline of environmental studies.

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Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist.

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Anarcho-primitivism

Anarcho-primitivism is an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization.

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Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.

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Arne Næss

Arne Dekke Eide Næss (27 January 1912 – 12 January 2009) was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "deep ecology" and was an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century.

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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa,; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin.

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Biocentrism (ethics)

Biocentrism (from Greek βίος bios, "life" and κέντρον kentron, "center"), in a political and ecological sense, as well as literally, is an ethical point of view that extends inherent value to all living things.

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Bioethics

Bioethics is the study of the ethical issues emerging from advances in biology and medicine.

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Biotic ethics

Biotic ethics (also called life-centered ethics) is a branch of ethics that values not only species and biospheres, but life itself.

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Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a large, primarily residential, public research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States.

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Clearcutting

Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down.

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Climate ethics

Climate ethics is an area of research that focuses on the ethical dimensions of climate change (also known as global warming), and concepts such as climate justice.

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Colorado State University

Colorado State University (also referred to as Colorado State, State, and CSU) is a public research university located in Fort Collins, in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Conservation (ethic)

Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection.

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Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.

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Crop art

Crop art is an environmental art practice using plants and seeds in the landscape to create statements, marks and/or images.

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Dartington

Dartington is a village in Devon, England.

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Deep ecology

Deep ecology is an ecological and environmental philosophy promoting the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus a radical restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.

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Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.

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Earth Day

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22.

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Earth Economics

Earth Economics is a 501c3 non-profit headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, United States.

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Ecocentrism

Ecocentrism (from Greek: οἶκος oikos, "house" and κέντρον kentron, "center") is a term used in ecological political philosophy to denote a nature-centered, as opposed to human-centered (i.e. anthropocentric), system of values.

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Ecofeminism

The term Ecofeminism is used to describe a feminist approach to understanding ecology.

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Ecological economics

Ecological economics (also called eco-economics, ecolonomy or bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen) is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems, both intertemporally and spatially.

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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EcoQuest

EcoQuest is a series of two educational adventure games developed by Sierra On-Line.

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Ecotheology

Ecotheology is a form of constructive theology that focuses on the interrelationships of religion and nature, particularly in the light of environmental concerns.

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Environmental design

Environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products.

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Environmental engineering

Environmental engineering system is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of scientific and engineering principles for protection of human populations from the effects of adverse environmental factors; protection of environments, both local and global, from potentially deleterious effects of natural and human activities; and improvement of environmental quality.

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Environmental Ethics (journal)

Environmental Ethics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of philosophical aspects of environmental problems.

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Environmental health ethics

Environmental health ethics is a field of study that combines environmental health policies and ethical consideration towards a mutually acceptable goal.

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Environmental law

Environmental law, also known as environmental and natural resources law, is a collective term describing the network of treaties, statutes, regulations, common and customary laws addressing the effects of human activity on the natural environment.

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Environmental movement

The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.

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Environmental organization

An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.

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Environmental philosophy

Environmental philosophy is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the natural environment and humans' place within it.

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Environmental racism

Environmental racism is a term used to describe environmental injustice within a racialized context.

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Environmental resource management

Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment.

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Environmental skepticism

Environmental skepticism is the belief that claims by environmentalists, and the environmental scientists who support them, are false or exaggerated.

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Environmental sociology

Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environments.

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Environmental studies

Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment in the interests of solving complex problems.

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Environmental Values

Environmental Values started as a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal closely associated with the ecological economics movement, but also firmly based in applied ethics.

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Environmental virtue ethics

Environmental virtue ethics (EVE) is, as the name suggests, a way of approaching environmental ethics through the lens of virtue ethics.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Gaia hypothesis

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.

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Garrett Hardin

Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American ecologist and philosopher who warned of the dangers of overpopulation.

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Hans Jonas

Hans Jonas (10 May 1903 – 5 February 1993) was a German-born American Jewish philosopher, from 1955 to 1976 the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

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Holism

Holism (from Greek ὅλος holos "all, whole, entire") is the idea that systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic) and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not just as a collection of parts.

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Hudson River School

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism.

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Human ecology

Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Integrated geography

Integrated geography (also referred to as integrative geography, environmental geography or human–environment geography) is the branch of geography that describes and explains the spatial aspects of interactions between human individuals or societies and their natural environment.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a heat engine where the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) is a scholarly online encyclopedia, dealing with philosophy, philosophical topics, and philosophers.

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James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock, (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.

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John L. O'Sullivan

John Louis O'Sullivan (November 15, 1813 – March 24, 1895) was an American columnist and editor who used the term "manifest destiny" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States.

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John Muir

John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.

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Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part one) global warming is occurring and (part two) it is extremely likely that human-made CO2 emissions have predominantly caused it.

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List of environmental philosophers

A list of environmental philosophers, ordered alphabetically, which includes living or recently deceased individuals who have published in the field of environmental ethics/philosophy (most of whom have PhDs in Philosophy, and are employed as philosophy professors), and those who are commonly regarded as precursors to the field.

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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (also referred to as LMU or the University of Munich, in German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university located in Munich, Germany.

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Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Lynn Townsend White Jr. (April 29, 1907 – March 30, 1987) was an American historian.

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Manifest destiny

In the 19th century, manifest destiny was a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.

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Michael A. Smith

Michael Andrew Smith (born 23 July 1954) is an Australian philosopher who teaches at Princeton University (since September 2004).

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Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer, AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher.

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Peter Vardy (theologian)

Peter Vardy (born 1945) is a British academic, philosopher, theologian and author who has been described as "one of the leading experts of religion and values education in Britain, Australia and New Zealand".

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Population control

Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population.

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Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in the environmental humanities located in Munich, Germany.

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Resource depletion

Resource depletion is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.

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Schumacher College

Schumacher College was founded in 1990 by Satish Kumar, John Lane and others, and first opened to students in January 1991 in Dartington, Totnes, Devon, UK.

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Self-validating reduction

A self-validating reduction is kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of which the result is a dramatic reduction in a person, group, or natural being.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.

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Solastalgia

for studio album by Missy Higgins, see Solastalgia Solastalgia (/sɒləˈstældʒə/) is a neologism that describes a form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change.

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Speciesism

Speciesism involves the assignment of different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely on the basis of their species membership.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.

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Terraforming

Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.

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Thought experiment

A thought experiment (Gedankenexperiment, Gedanken-Experiment or Gedankenerfahrung) considers some hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences.

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Trail ethics

Trail ethics deals with ethics as it applies to the use of trails.

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University of Greifswald

The University of Greifswald (Universität Greifswald) is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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University of Montana

The University of Montana (often simply referred to as UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana, in the United States.

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University of North Texas

The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research institution in Denton with programs in natural, formal, and social sciences, engineering, liberal arts, fine arts, performing arts, humanities, public policy, graduate professional education, and post-doc research.

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Van Rensselaer Potter

Van Rensselaer Potter II (August 27, 1911 – September 6, 2001) was an American biochemist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_ethics

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