Environmental ethics

Reed Elizabeth Loder

Chapter 33 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp 128-131 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Environmental Ethics considers the appropriate human treatment of nonhuman nature, including living beings like animals, and entities like mountains and rivers. The field identifies the various ways the environment should be valued, both instrumentally and intrinsically. Theories include utilitarian, rights-based (both individual and holistic), biocentrism, deep ecology, ecofeminism, social ecology, and virtue ethics. Applied environmental ethics addresses policy applications of its diverse theoretical approaches.

Keywords: Anthropocentrism; Consequentialism; Deontology; Utilitarianism; Biocentrism; Holism; Rights of nature; Ecofeminism; Deep ecology; Social ecology; Virtue ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923666
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