Business Ethics and the Environment

Our environmental organizations manifest duties of virtue in pursuit of environmental restoration and preservation. As such, they provide the key political-economic institutions that interact with our government agencies to lead and provide the visions that our environmental movement pursues. Understanding these organizations of collective duty are therefore the key to investigating the economics and politics of our environmental movement. This text examines their role, motivations, and accomplishments thereby elucidating various phases of our environmental movement such as

• the positive link between environmental restoration and economic development,
• the movement for environmental justice,
• the refinement of the aims and methods of environmental regulation,

• the political difficulties posed by the tragedy of the global commons.
  Using the conceptions of collective duties of virtue, this text effectively explains the functioning of our environmental advocacy organizations in ways and extents not accomplished elsewhere. Featuring suggested reading lists, review questions, and class discussion/essay questions in each chapter, this book is useful for students and professors in environmental business ethics and sustainability.

  Examines the environmental movement over the last half century Explores the function of environmental advocacy organizations in environmental restoration Features suggested reading lists, review questions, and class discussion/essay questions

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Richard M. Robinson is Professor of Business in the Department of Business Administration at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia, USA) where he instructs courses in business ethics and economics. He is author of several books including the textbook, Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty (Springer, 2022, 2024), Environmental Advocacy and Local Restorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), and Restoring America's Rivers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). He is a former editor of the Journal of Economics and Finance (Springer) and has authored numerous articles in scholarly academic journals.

Inhalt

Chapter 1:The Foundation of Environmental Philosophy.- Chapter 2:The Process of Moral Construction and the Environment.- Chapter 3: Moral Virtues and Ethical Decisions.- Chapter 4: Environmental Discourse.- Chapter 5:Habitat Restoration.- Chapter 6:Philosophy of the Community and the Environmental Ethic.- Chapter 7:Some Rhetoric of Environmental Equity and Economic Efficiency.- Chapter 8:The Environment as an Input of Production and Provider of Amenities.- Chapter 9:Some Environmental Advocacy Organizations and Their Contributions.- Chapter 10:Great Lakes Areas of Concern and Local Environmental Advocacy.- Chapter 11:Indigenous Justice Along the Elwha, Klamath, and Penobscot Rivers.- Chapter 12:The Business of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.- Chapter 13:Common Property Resources and the Making of the Global Tragedy.- Chapter 14:Social Stratification, the Hudson Estuary, and the Grand Calumet River.- Chapter 15:Human Caused Climate Change and its Business Deniers.