Overview
- A comprehensive look at environmentalism within a context of general ethical concerns
- Sets the Environmental Movement at the center of social and political philosophy
- Connects environmental ethics to broader normative issues that are pervasive, such as social justice
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
Part of the book series: Library of Public Policy and Public Administration (LPPP, volume 16)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Interpretative Framework
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Telling “Telling” Stories
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Empowering the Civic
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Back Matter
Keywords
- A Climate of Justice
- Daniel Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology
- Existing as Contemporaries
- Neurobiology and Human Dignity
- Open Access
- People of the Earth
- The Earth and Our Humanity
- The Earth and the Social
- The Interpretative Framework
- The Tailwinds of American Prosperity
- The Western Individual
- White Compromises and American Prosperity
About this book
This open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of economic, social, and racial justice. Brown shows how our current social climate maintains systemic injustices, and he uncovers resources for change through a civic ethics of repair and reciprocity. A must-read for researchers and educators in the area of environmental ethics and those teaching courses in the fields of public policy and environmental sustainability.
With the support of more than 30 libraries, the LYRASIS United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund has enabled this publication related to SDG13 (Climate Action) to be available fully open access.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marvin T. Brown has been teaching, consulting, and writing in the areas of business and social ethics for 40 years, always exploring the necessary conditions for creative conversation on critical issues. Alongside his teaching at the University of San Francisco and other Bay Area universities, Brown has served as an ethics consultant for various businesses and has been invited to give lectures and workshops in the United States, Germany, Poland, Argentine, Venezuela, Norway, Canada, and China. He has also presented numerous times at the annual meetings of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, the Society of Business Ethics, and the International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics.
Brown’s writings have evolved from a focus on the work environment (Working Ethics, 1990 and The Ethical Process, 1993), to the organization in society (Corporate Integrity, 2005), to the social economy (Civilizing the Economy, 2010), and more recently, to the social context of environmentalism (A Climate of Justice). His books, and multiple essays, have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Korean, and Chinese.
In 2019 Marvin Brown received a Lifetime Service Award from the Philosophy Department at the University of San Francisco. He has also received a Faculty Service Award from USF and an Alumni Achievement Award from Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Brown has a Ph.D. in Theology and Rhetoric from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, a M.D. in Practical Theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and a B.A in Religion and Philosophy from Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism
Authors: Marvin T. Brown
Series Title: Library of Public Policy and Public Administration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77363-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77362-5Published: 22 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77365-6Published: 17 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77363-2Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 1566-7669
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 185
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature