ENVIRONMENTAL DILEMMAS ETHICS AND DECISIONS

• Other Authors: Berry, R. J. Robert James
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Chapman & Hall 1993
• Edition: 1st ed
• Subjects: Environmental policy > Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental ethics; Environmental policy > Decision making; Environmental engineering > Decision making
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• Physical Description: xxii, 271 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0412398001

This book is by people - most of them scientists who have had to make environmental decisions. Despite popular rhetoric, our environment is not simply a jewel to be cossetted nor a resource to be plundered; it is something to be managed responsibly for everyone's sake. The authors of the case studies in this collection set out the factors that they have had to consider in devising actions which will affect the environment. The book is not a description of decision-making theory (only one of the authors is a professional philosopher), nor is it an apology for cynical pragmatism; it is an account of the factors that have to be weighed in making decisions about the air we breathe, energy sources, land use, animal welfare, commercial profit and so on. The authors are all committed environmentalists who have had to translate their principles into practice; they tell of the practical problems of maintaining their principles whilst producing answers to real problems. This is a book for managers, historians, sociologists, but above all for environmental scientists forced to make decisions on imperfect or incom plete evidence.