In Their Own Words

A complete environmental ethics requires both an ethics of action and an ethics of character and flourishing. Environmental virtue ethics is the area of environmental ethics concerned with character and flourishing. This book--the first published anthology on the topic--consists of ten original and four reprinted essays by leading scholars in the field. They discuss the role that virtue and character have traditionally played in environmental discourse and reflect upon the role that they should play in the future. The selections also discuss the substantive content of particular virtues and vices and apply them to concrete environmental issues and problems.