![]() | Global Water Ethics: Towards a global ethics charter Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Humanities; Law; Environmental Law - Environmental Studies; Environmental Issues; Environment & Philosophy; Environment & Resources; Environment & Society; Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties; Business Management and Accounting; Industry & Industrial Studies; Human Geography; Philosophy; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Environmental Geography; Ethics - Jurisprudence; Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics; Energy Industries & Utilities; Ethics Philosophy; 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. Overall the book provides a stimulating examination of water ethics in theory and practice, relevant to academics and professionals in the fields of water resource management and governance, environmental ethics, geography, law and political science. Rafael Ziegler is Head of Research at GETIDOS (Getting things done sustainably), based in Greifswald, Germany. He has worked as a lecturer at McGill University, ECLA and FU Berlin, and as a Deputy Professor of environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald. David Groenfeldt is Director of the Water-Culture Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. He is the author of Water Ethics: A Values Approach to Solving the Water Crisis (Routledge, 2013). |
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