Sökning: "environmental ethical theory"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden environmental ethical theory.
1. Ecofeminism and Environmental Ethics
Sammanfattning : This study focuses on ecofeminist ethical theory. A first aim is to clarify ecofeminist views on five central issues in the field of environmental ethics. These issues are: (1) Views of nature, (2) social constructivism and nature, (3) values of nature, (4) ethical contextualism, and (5) ethical pluralism. LÄS MER
2. Sustainability for Whom? : The Politics of Imagining Environmental Change in Education
Sammanfattning : Global initiatives regarding environmental change have increasingly become part of political agendas and of our collective imagination. In order to form sustainable societies, education is considered crucial by organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. LÄS MER
3. The Responsible Business Person : Studies of business education for sustainability
Sammanfattning : Calls for the inclusion of sustainable development in the business curriculum have increased significantly in the wake of the financial crisis and increased concerns around climate change. This has led to the appearance of new initiatives and the development of new teaching approaches. LÄS MER
4. ‘Less But Better’ Meat for Food System Sustainability - Exploring Meanings & Characterisations
Sammanfattning : Livestock systems are key drivers behind a range of pressing sustainability issues; but with that, also present central opportunities for leveraging positive food system change. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to increased understanding of what more sustainable meat production and consumption is, using ‘less but better’ as a framework. LÄS MER
5. Deliberating value : On the theory and practice of valuation of nature from neoclassical to ecological economics
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about whether it is a good idea to place monetary value on nature, to remedy the fact that we treat it as having no particular value to us humans, although it clearly has. The thesis is based on five research papers that can be said to position themselves on opposite sides in the debate on monetisation of nature. LÄS MER