Business Ethics
UNIT 12 ETHICAL AND MORAL DIMENSIONS
Structure
12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Introduction
Objectives
Ethical and Moral Dimensions
Ethnical Use of Natural Resources Three Views about Nature Attitudes towards Nature
Anthropocentrism Stewardship Ecofeminism Biocentrism and Ecocentrism
12.5
Environmental Equity
Procedural Inequity Geographical Inequity Social Inequity
12.6 12.7 12.8
Environmental Justice Environmental Racism Religious Teachings about Environment
Hinduism Jainism Buddhism Christianity Islam Sikhism
12.9 Summary 12.10 Terminal Questions
12.1 INTRODUCTION
In Unit 11 we have focused the basic concepts mobilisation, participation, people’s involvement of community, empowerment and women development, gender and feminism the process of community mobilisation and participation in the integrated environmental management. In this unit we will discuss about many social problems in terms of ethical and moral dimensions in respect of environmental management. Many environmental problems are in fact social problems in terms of moral and ethical values. Building a just, stable, harmonious world for the future generations should be the central organising principle for civilisation. Our ideas about nature have varied through the whole history of environmentalism. This unit reviews the environmental ethics, our views and beliefs about nature and environment, issue of environmental equity dealing with the environmental crisis, environmental justice and its principles, racial discrimination at the policy and public level in managing the environment, and teachings about environment in the major religions practiced in South Asia. Objectives After studying this unit, you should be able to: • • • • • discuss different ethical approaches and attitudes towards nature and environmental management; explain the importance of equity for environmental management; discuss the necessity of justice in dealing with environmental crisis; describe the effects of
Structure
12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Introduction
Objectives
Ethical and Moral Dimensions
Ethnical Use of Natural Resources Three Views about Nature Attitudes towards Nature
Anthropocentrism Stewardship Ecofeminism Biocentrism and Ecocentrism
12.5
Environmental Equity
Procedural Inequity Geographical Inequity Social Inequity
12.6 12.7 12.8
Environmental Justice Environmental Racism Religious Teachings about Environment
Hinduism Jainism Buddhism Christianity Islam Sikhism
12.9 Summary 12.10 Terminal Questions
12.1 INTRODUCTION
In Unit 11 we have focused the basic concepts mobilisation, participation, people’s involvement of community, empowerment and women development, gender and feminism the process of community mobilisation and participation in the integrated environmental management. In this unit we will discuss about many social problems in terms of ethical and moral dimensions in respect of environmental management. Many environmental problems are in fact social problems in terms of moral and ethical values. Building a just, stable, harmonious world for the future generations should be the central organising principle for civilisation. Our ideas about nature have varied through the whole history of environmentalism. This unit reviews the environmental ethics, our views and beliefs about nature and environment, issue of environmental equity dealing with the environmental crisis, environmental justice and its principles, racial discrimination at the policy and public level in managing the environment, and teachings about environment in the major religions practiced in South Asia. Objectives After studying this unit, you should be able to: • • • • • discuss different ethical approaches and attitudes towards nature and environmental management; explain the importance of equity for environmental management; discuss the necessity of justice in dealing with environmental crisis; describe the effects of
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