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The concern of this book is the question of why the environment is protected in the international arena. This question is rarely asked because it is assumed we all want to achieve the same ends. However, in this study of international environmental ethics, Alexander Gillespie explodes this myth. He shows how nations, like individuals, are creating environmental laws and policies which are continually inviting failure since such laws are riddled with inconsistencies and are ultimately contradictory in purpose. Specifically, he seeks a nexus between the reasons why nations protect the environment, how these reasons are reflected in law and policy, and what complications arise from these choices.

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This is one of the most sophisticated and convincing considerations of the ethical bases of environmental policy currently available. Recommended for undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. --Choice<br> The book provides thoughtful and provocative analysis of the ethical bases for protecting the environment....Readers will enjoy this stimulatin book and the author's refreshing, critical style in addressing the philosophical bases for our actions to protect (or often to degrade) the environment. --The American Journal of International Law<br>

This is one of the most sophisticated and convincing considerations of the ethical bases of environmental policy currently available. Recommended for undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. --Choice The book provides thoughtful and provocative analysis of the ethical bases for protecting the environment....Readers will enjoy this stimulatin book and the author's refreshing, critical style in addressing the philosophical bases for our actions to protect (or often to degrade) the environment. --The American Journal of International Law This is one of the most sophisticated and convincing considerations of the ethical bases of environmental policy currently available. Recommended for undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. --Choice The book provides thoughtful and provocative analysis of the ethical bases for protecting the environment....Readers will enjoy this stimulatin book and the author's refreshing, critical style in addressing the philosophical bases for our actions to protect (or often to degrade) the environment. --The American Journal of International Law This is one of the most sophisticated and convincing considerations of the ethical bases of environmental policy currently available. Recommended for undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. --Choice The book provides thoughtful and provocative analysis of the ethical bases for protecting the environment....Readers will enjoy this stimulatin book and the author's refreshing, critical style in addressing the philosophical bases for our actions to protect (or often to degrade) the environment. --The American Journal of International Law This is one of the most sophisticated and convincing considerations of the ethical bases of environmental policy currently available. Recommended for undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. --Choice The book provides thoughtful and provocative analysis of the ethical bases for protecting the environment....Readers will enjoy this stimulatin book and the author's refreshing, critical style in addressing the philosophical bases for our actions to protect (or often to degrade) theenvironment. --The American Journal of International Law

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