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                           ‘We have entered a unique century, the first century in the 35 million               EdITION
                           centuries of life on Earth in which one species can jeopardise the                      THE E
                           planet’s future. Robin Attfield’s biospheric consequentialism is 
                           insightful and persuasive, at the frontier of the crescendo of global 
                           concern for life on our wonderland planet.’                                             THICS OF THE GL
                           Holmes Rolston III, University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University
                           Your concise, up-to-date guide to global 
                           environmental ethics
                           This fully updated and expanded textbook offers new reflections on                      OBAL ENVIRONMENT
                           global environmental issues including climate change, sustainable 
                           development and biodiversity preservation, while remaining sensitive to 
                           global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at 
                           Nagoya on biodiversity. It supplies an ethical critique of current international 
                           environmental problems and negotiations, and the shape which 
                           international regimes will need in order to cope with global environmental                                  EdINBuRGH STudIES IN GLOBAL ETHICS
                           problems.
                           Key features
                              •  Takes a distinctive approach to climate ethics
                              •  Includes a new chapter on the ethics of climate change
                              •  Contains up-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti’s reforestation                                     SECONd
                                project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi Dam (Laos)                                           EdITION THE ETHICS
                              •  Integrates environmental ethics with ethical theory
                              •  Includes new passages on environmental aesthetics, lobbying websites 
                                and the Yasuni Reserve in Ecuador                                                  R
                           Robin Attfield is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he               OBIN                       OF THE GLOBAL
                           has taught philosophy since 1968. He has also served as Visiting Lecturer in 
                           Philosophy at a number of African institutions. In 2008 he was awarded a                 A
                           D. Litt. by Cardiff University for contributions to environmental philosophy.           TTFIEL                     ENVIRONMENT
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                                                       ISBN 978-0-7486-5480-2
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                            Cover image: Robin Kay, Vietnamese Jungle, Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam                                                          ROBIN ATTFIELd
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        EDINBURGH STUDIES IN GLOBAL ETHICS
          Other titles in the series:
          The Ethics of Peace and War
          Iain Atack
          Ethics, Economics and International Relations (second edition)
          Peter G. Brown
          World Ethics: The New Agenda (second edition)
          Nigel Dower
          The Ethics of Development
          Des Gasper
          World Ethics and Climate Change
          Paul G. Harris
          The Ethics of Peacebuilding
          Tim Murithi
          www.euppublishing.com/series/esge
        THE ETHICS OF
         THE GLOBAL
        ENVIRONMENT
           2nd Edition
           Robin Attfield
       © Robin Attfield, 1999, 2015 
       Edinburgh University Press Ltd 
       The Tun … Holyrood Road 
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       Edinburgh EH8 8PJ
       www.euppublishing.com 
       First published 1999
       This edition 2015
       Typeset in Times by 
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       printed and bound in Great Britain by 
       CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY
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       from the British Library
       ISBN  978 0 7486 5480 2 (hardback)
       ISBN  978 0 7486 5481 9 (paperback)
       ISBN  978 0 7486 5482 6 (webready PDF)
       ISBN  978 0 7486 5486 4 (epub)
       The right of Robin Attfield to be identified as author 
       of this work has been asserted in accordance with the 
       Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright 
       and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498).