Engineers and Environmental Ethics

Environmental ethics deals with the ethical problems surrounding environmental protection which aims to provide ethical justification and moral motivation for the cause of global environmental protection. Most ethical theories considers human as the only ones that have right to moral consideration. But environmental ethics emerged as a protest to this anthropocentric worldview. According to many environmental ethical theories nature also has the right to moral consideration. This book discusses about the responsibility for the environment to be shared by engineers, industry, government, and the public. It also introduces some perspectives developed in the new field of environmental ethics that enter into engineers’ personal commitments and ideals.