Global Water Ethics: Towards a global ethics charter
Rafael Ziegler, "Global Water Ethics: Towards a global ethics charter "
English | ISBN: 1138204293 | 2017 | 316 pages | PDF | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 1138204293 | 2017 | 316 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally sustainable and socially just. This book assesses the implications of ongoing research in framing a new discipline of water ethics in practice.
Contributions consider the difficult ethical and epistemological questions of water ethics in a global context, as well as offering local, empirical perspectives. Case study chapters focus on a range of countries including Canada, China, Germany, India, South Africa and the USA. The respective insights are brought together in the final section concerning the practical project of a universal water ethics charter, alongside theoretical questions about the legitimacy of a global water ethics.