Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, <i>Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions</i> contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s. <ul><li>Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics </li><li>Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field </li><li>Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric precedents </li><li>Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the field by featuring seminal work from eminent philosophers, biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, nature writers, business writers, and others </li><li>Designed to be used with a web-site which contains a continuously updated archive of case studies:<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: #1f497d; font-size: 11pt;"></span></p> </li></ul>