Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016), editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005), and co-editor of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010). His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics.Allen Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and a Fellow with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He is co-editor of Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future (MIT, 2012) and serves as an officer for the International Society for Environmental Ethics (Treasurer 2013-2015, Vice-President 2016-2018, and President 2019-2021).

Ultimately this handbook is a comprehensive exposition of the breadth and depth of the field of environmental ethics. It adeptly ranges over theoretical and practical aspects as well as various subtle challenges, both conceptual/philosophical and those that impede the ability to effect change. It can serve equally well as a reference or introductory groundwork. As a result, it would be a welcome addition to any environmental ethics library. Anyone from a curious beginning student to a teacher or other professional, in practical fields ranging from academia, or politics to environmental science, will be well served with this volume.

• PART I. CONTEXT: BROAD SOCIAL CONTEXTS IN WHICH WE FIND OURSELVES; PART II. SUBJECTS OF VALUE: WHAT OUGHT TO COUNT MORALLY AND HOW; PART III. NATURE OF VALUE: THE MEANING OF VALUE AND NORMATIVE CLAIMS; PART IV. HOW THINGS MATTER: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE WAY WE OUGHT TO ACT; PART V. KEY CONCEPTS: TOOLS FOR FRAMING AND ADDRESSING PROBLEMS; PART VI. CENTRAL ISSUES: SPECIFIC AREAS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN; PART VII. CLIMATE CHANGE: THE DEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM OF OUR TIME; PART VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE: DOING WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO

Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016), editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005), and co-editor of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010). His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics.Allen Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and a Fellow with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He is co-editor of Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future (MIT, 2012) and serves as an officer for the International Society for Environmental Ethics (Treasurer 2013-2015, Vice-President 2016-2018, and President 2019-2021).

Ultimately this handbook is a comprehensive exposition of the breadth and depth of the field of environmental ethics. It adeptly ranges over theoretical and practical aspects as well as various subtle challenges, both conceptual/philosophical and those that impede the ability to effect change. It can serve equally well as a reference or introductory groundwork. As a result, it would be a welcome addition to any environmental ethics library. Anyone from a curious beginning student to a teacher or other professional, in practical fields ranging from academia, or politics to environmental science, will be well served with this volume.

• PART I. CONTEXT: BROAD SOCIAL CONTEXTS IN WHICH WE FIND OURSELVES; PART II. SUBJECTS OF VALUE: WHAT OUGHT TO COUNT MORALLY AND HOW; PART III. NATURE OF VALUE: THE MEANING OF VALUE AND NORMATIVE CLAIMS; PART IV. HOW THINGS MATTER: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE WAY WE OUGHT TO ACT; PART V. KEY CONCEPTS: TOOLS FOR FRAMING AND ADDRESSING PROBLEMS; PART VI. CENTRAL ISSUES: SPECIFIC AREAS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN; PART VII. CLIMATE CHANGE: THE DEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM OF OUR TIME; PART VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE: DOING WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO

Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016), editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005), and co-editor of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010). His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics.Allen Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and a Fellow with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He is co-editor of Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future (MIT, 2012) and serves as an officer for the International Society for Environmental Ethics (Treasurer 2013-2015, Vice-President 2016-2018, and President 2019-2021).

Ultimately this handbook is a comprehensive exposition of the breadth and depth of the field of environmental ethics. It adeptly ranges over theoretical and practical aspects as well as various subtle challenges, both conceptual/philosophical and those that impede the ability to effect change. It can serve equally well as a reference or introductory groundwork. As a result, it would be a welcome addition to any environmental ethics library. Anyone from a curious beginning student to a teacher or other professional, in practical fields ranging from academia, or politics to environmental science, will be well served with this volume.

• PART I. CONTEXT: BROAD SOCIAL CONTEXTS IN WHICH WE FIND OURSELVES; PART II. SUBJECTS OF VALUE: WHAT OUGHT TO COUNT MORALLY AND HOW; PART III. NATURE OF VALUE: THE MEANING OF VALUE AND NORMATIVE CLAIMS; PART IV. HOW THINGS MATTER: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE WAY WE OUGHT TO ACT; PART V. KEY CONCEPTS: TOOLS FOR FRAMING AND ADDRESSING PROBLEMS; PART VI. CENTRAL ISSUES: SPECIFIC AREAS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN; PART VII. CLIMATE CHANGE: THE DEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM OF OUR TIME; PART VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE: DOING WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO