Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World

Deane Curtin puts today's most important social and environmental ethical issues into their historical political and philosophical contexts and offers deep insights into the nature of our freedom and its relation to justice in our globalized commercialized culture. Using familiar literary and historical icons to make surprising points about colonial attitudes and practices he also demonstrates the unique linkages between colonialism and environmentalism. Using an array of well-documented cases from around the world <I>Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World</I> is an accessible and very readable book ideal for students of environmental ethics globalization environmental politics or environmental political theory as well as for anyone interested in policy and practical options for change.