Overview
- The first critical reader on African Environmental Ethics
- Brings together a group of scholars from various African and non-African background with particular focus and interest in African Environmental Ethics
- Goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 29)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Moral Status and the African Environment
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African Ecocentric Environmental Ethics
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Environmental Justice in African Philosophy
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Questions of Animal Rights in African Philosophy
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About this book
This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational Environmentalism, ubuntu, African theocentric and teleological environmentalism are addressed in this book. It is unique in so far as it goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics by exploring how these views might be understood differently in order to conceptualize African environmental ethics. Against the background where environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, extinction of flora and fauna, and global warming are plain to see, it becomes useful to examine how African conceptions of environmental ethics could be understood in order to confront some of these problems facing the whole world. This book will be of value toundergraduate students, graduate students and academics working in the area of African Philosophy, African Environmental Ethics and Global Ethics in general.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: African Environmental Ethics
Book Subtitle: A Critical Reader
Editors: Munamato Chemhuru
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18807-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18806-1Published: 13 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18809-2Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18807-8Published: 30 May 2019
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 325
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agricultural Ethics, International Environmental Law, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary