About the BookThe Environmental Responsibility Reader is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary environmental works that offers a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in environmental responsibility, steering the reader through each development in thought with a unifying and expert editorial voice. This essential text expertly explores seemingly intractable modern-day environmental dilemmas - including climate change, fossil fuel consumption, fresh water quality, industrial pollution, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss. Starting with "Silent Spring" and moving through to more recent works the book draws on contemporary ideas of environmental ethics, corporate social responsibility, ecological justice, fair trade, global citizenship, and the connections between environmental and social justice; configuring these ideas into practical notions for responsible action with a unique global and integral focus on responsibility. What People Have Said About the Book'This collection brings together in one place key texts of leading thinkers in environmental ethics. No one who takes environmental responsibility seriously will want to be without this book.' - Ruth Chadwick, Director, ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen) Cardiff University 'In these tumultuous times, I shall keep this rich mix of classic texts close at hand. They combine inspiration, ethics and pragmatic reflection on why we have reached the crisis we face today and tomorrow. This kind of deep thinking will be key to whether we can shift to become global citizens with an eye to the future.' - Dr Camilla Toulmin, Director, International Institute for Environment and Development 'A welcome and timely reminder that we need to take up our environmental responsibilities now following the inspiring guidance provided by this excellent collection.' - Wendy Harcourt, Editor of 'Development' and the forthcoming Zed Book Series on 'Gender and Environment' 'The environmental challenges of the 21st Century are the most complex, difficult and dangerous that humanity has ever faced. Perplexity is a common human response to complexity. Inaction is what follows from perplexity. The readings brought together into this volume provide hugely valuable insights into how best we could navigate this landscape of environmental risks and opportunities more successfully.’ - Tom Burke, founding director of E3G ContentsSection 1: Introduction Section 2: Ethical and Cultural Traditions Section 3: Nature Matters: Preserving and shaping environments Section 4: Individual and collective responsibility and action Section 5: Ecological citizenship: Social and environmental justice and corporate social responsibility Section 6: Summary About the EditorsMartin Reynolds, a Lecturer in Systems at The Open University, is Course Team Chair for the OU postgraduate course Environmental responsibility and, since 2002, Chair for Environmental ethics. He started work at The Open University in 2000 and has been writing for postgraduate courses on environmental ethics, environmental decision making and institutional development. He has researched and published widely, including his book: Operational Research and Environmental Management (co-authored with Gerald Midgley), and contributed many book chapters, journal papers and policy briefings. Chris Blackmore, a Senior Lecturer in Systems and Environment at The Open University, is a founding course team member for the OU postgraduate course Environmental ethics. She is currently a member of the management team for the OU-wide Ethics Centre. She's also the founding Course Team Chair of the postgraduate course Environmental decision making and still one of its Co-Chairs and a course author. Her main research area, in which she has various publications, is in learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making, including issues of ethics, social learning, global citizenship, sustainability and responsibility. Mark J. Smith, Politics and International Studies and the Center for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University, researches environmental responsibility, transnational corporations, civic engagement and the role of ethics in politics and the environment. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Environment and Citizenship, Responsible Politics, Ecologism, Social Science in Question, Thinking through the Environment, Rethinking State Theory and Culture, as well as many chapters and articles. Formerly at Sussex University, his visiting professorships include the University of Oslo and Norwegian Business School and he has been a researcher in universities in the US and South Africa.
About the BookThe Environmental Responsibility Reader is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary environmental works that offers a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in environmental responsibility, steering the reader through each development in thought with a unifying and expert editorial voice. This essential text expertly explores seemingly intractable modern-day environmental dilemmas - including climate change, fossil fuel consumption, fresh water quality, industrial pollution, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss. Starting with "Silent Spring" and moving through to more recent works the book draws on contemporary ideas of environmental ethics, corporate social responsibility, ecological justice, fair trade, global citizenship, and the connections between environmental and social justice; configuring these ideas into practical notions for responsible action with a unique global and integral focus on responsibility. What People Have Said About the Book'This collection brings together in one place key texts of leading thinkers in environmental ethics. No one who takes environmental responsibility seriously will want to be without this book.' - Ruth Chadwick, Director, ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen) Cardiff University 'In these tumultuous times, I shall keep this rich mix of classic texts close at hand. They combine inspiration, ethics and pragmatic reflection on why we have reached the crisis we face today and tomorrow. This kind of deep thinking will be key to whether we can shift to become global citizens with an eye to the future.' - Dr Camilla Toulmin, Director, International Institute for Environment and Development 'A welcome and timely reminder that we need to take up our environmental responsibilities now following the inspiring guidance provided by this excellent collection.' - Wendy Harcourt, Editor of 'Development' and the forthcoming Zed Book Series on 'Gender and Environment' 'The environmental challenges of the 21st Century are the most complex, difficult and dangerous that humanity has ever faced. Perplexity is a common human response to complexity. Inaction is what follows from perplexity. The readings brought together into this volume provide hugely valuable insights into how best we could navigate this landscape of environmental risks and opportunities more successfully.’ - Tom Burke, founding director of E3G ContentsSection 1: Introduction Section 2: Ethical and Cultural Traditions Section 3: Nature Matters: Preserving and shaping environments Section 4: Individual and collective responsibility and action Section 5: Ecological citizenship: Social and environmental justice and corporate social responsibility Section 6: Summary About the EditorsMartin Reynolds, a Lecturer in Systems at The Open University, is Course Team Chair for the OU postgraduate course Environmental responsibility and, since 2002, Chair for Environmental ethics. He started work at The Open University in 2000 and has been writing for postgraduate courses on environmental ethics, environmental decision making and institutional development. He has researched and published widely, including his book: Operational Research and Environmental Management (co-authored with Gerald Midgley), and contributed many book chapters, journal papers and policy briefings. Chris Blackmore, a Senior Lecturer in Systems and Environment at The Open University, is a founding course team member for the OU postgraduate course Environmental ethics. She is currently a member of the management team for the OU-wide Ethics Centre. She's also the founding Course Team Chair of the postgraduate course Environmental decision making and still one of its Co-Chairs and a course author. Her main research area, in which she has various publications, is in learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making, including issues of ethics, social learning, global citizenship, sustainability and responsibility. Mark J. Smith, Politics and International Studies and the Center for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University, researches environmental responsibility, transnational corporations, civic engagement and the role of ethics in politics and the environment. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Environment and Citizenship, Responsible Politics, Ecologism, Social Science in Question, Thinking through the Environment, Rethinking State Theory and Culture, as well as many chapters and articles. Formerly at Sussex University, his visiting professorships include the University of Oslo and Norwegian Business School and he has been a researcher in universities in the US and South Africa. |
