The nexus of environmental ethics and environmental sustainability: An empirical assessment

Author(s):  
Choy Yee Keong
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanveer Ahmad Bhat ◽  
Prof. Ahrar Husain

Science, as a part of way of life, has been developed to help human beings and has the ethical responsibility of improving the quality of life. As far as Environment is concerned, the preliminary harmonic association between man and Environment has been critically distressed throughout current decades. The unrestrained progression of Technology and mankind’s leading performance over Nature, have shaped serious environmental troubles. Unless these troubles will be restricted, they may create lasting unfavorable trends which may even put at risk earth’s capacity. In order to attain feasible progress and harmonious coexistence between Mankind and Nature, mankind has to shape a novel association with the environment. At present the world is witnessing numerous environmental problems, which are the result of un-mindful exploitations of natural resources by human beings. There is an urgent need to create environmental ethics among all the citizens in general and student community in particular so as to enable us in ensuring Environmental Sustainability which is one amongst the Millennium Development Goals. The present study was conducted on Tribal and Non-Tribal Secondary Students of Jammu and Kashmir on a randomly selected sample of 302 Tribal and 277 Non-Tribal Secondary School Students. The researcher found that the Non-Tribal Secondary School Students have high Environmental Ethics than their Tribal counterparts.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Batavia ◽  
Jeremy T. Bruskotter ◽  
Michael Paul Nelson

Though largely a theoretical endeavour, environmental ethics also has a practical agenda to help humans achieve environmental sustainability. Environmental ethicists have extensively debated the grounds, contents and implications of our moral obligations to nonhuman nature, offering up different notions of an 'environmental ethic' with the presumption that, if humans adopt such an environmental ethic, they will then engage in less environmentally damaging behaviours. We assess this presumption, drawing on psychological research to discuss whether or under what conditions an environmental ethic might engender pro-environmental behaviour. We focus discussion on three lines of scholarship in the environmental ethics literature, on 1) intrinsic value, 2) care ethics, and 3) the land ethic. We conclude by commenting generally on both the limits and transformative potential of an environmental ethic in its larger sociocultural context.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-394
Author(s):  
Moh. Mufid

This article aims to examine the role of schools in fostering an attitude of eco-literacy students and ensuring environmental sustainability by green lifestyle implementation (green lifestyle). The idea of green schools is an attempt to realize the millennial generation of environment-friendly students. To support this, it needs revitalization ecologically sound scientific schools: First, revitalization in the field of interpretation studies with an ecological approach. Second, the revitalization of jurisprudence with ecological insights. Third, develop an ecological study of Sufism. The results show that Islamic boarding schools as educational institutions have great potential to solve social problems ecologically. Pesantren can be a model of education that instils the normative ecological-religious value to foster self-consciousness and care about the environment. Therefore, it takes a revitalization of knowledge in pesantren to give birth to piety and ecological awareness among the students. Revitalization of knowledge in pesantren can be done through the internalization of ecological insight into the discipline of the religious sciences that are taught in schools. Study commentary directed at understanding the verses with a thematic-ecological approach that can provide insight into the Qur’an in a comprehensive manner to the students to interact with their environment. Jurisprudence oriented towards environmental issues that can be equipped to respond to the dynamics of Islamic legal thought that is responsive to the problems of social-ecological. Likewise, the study of Sufism is done by the redefinition of the terms of the key disciplines of Sufism, like repentance, asceticism, mahabbah, and others, thus produce an environmental ethics attitude.


2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Richie

Van Rensselaer Potter riteneva che fossimo giunti ad un punto in cui “la conoscenza si accumula più velocemente della saggezza per gestirla”. Ciò è certamente vero per la tecnologia medica, ma si riferisce anche ai cambiamenti climatici. Sappiamo, per esempio, che l’inquinamento atmosferico è oggigiorno il più grande rischio per la salute ambientale del mondo. Eppure la nostra società non ha la saggezza di creare strategie per arrestare i cambiamenti climatici, e lasciamo che questi si implementino autonomamente. La bioetica ambientale è una fonte di saggezza che può fornire strategie per affrontare il cambiamento climatico, ossia “una saggezza per gestirlo”. Il presente articolo intende in primo luogo individuare le origini concettuali della “bioetica” all’interno della lunga tradizione della teologia morale cattolica, seguita dal più recente avvento della bioetica all’interno dell’etica secolare. In seguito, si analizzeranno in dettaglio i due filoni fondamentali della bioetica attuale a partire dal 1970: la bioetica ambientale e il “mantra” della Georgetown University. Dopo aver fornito tale sfondo teorico, sarà affrontato il punto cruciale dell’articolo: si tenterà di sintetizzare in tre modelli essenziali, costitutivi della bioetica ambientale, gli innumerevoli dibattiti che avvengono nell’ambito delle tecnologie mediche, dell’assistenza sanitaria e della conservazione ambientale. Li ho chiamati “il modello tecnologico”, “il modello dell’assistenza sanitaria” e “il modello ecologico”. Il mio obiettivo non è tanto quello di sostenere un paradigma piuttosto che un altro. Al contrario, un’adeguata categorizzazione potrebbe portare ad un dialogo più dinamico ed efficace sulla sostenibilità ambientale in ambito medico. L’assistenza sanitaria del XXI secolo sarà definita dagli sforzi per riunire l’ecologia e la bioetica. E, a partire dai distinti approcci all’interazione tra ecologia, assistenza sanitaria e tecnologia, le radici comuni dell’etica ambientale e della bioetica potranno produrre una perfetta cifra per un reale bio-etica (etica della vita). ---------- Van Rensselaer Potter believed that we are at a point where “knowledge is accumulating faster than the wisdom to manage it”. This applies to medical technology, certainly. But it also applies to climate change. We know, for instance, that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Yet we, as a society, do not have the wisdom to create strategies for halting climate change, let alone implement them. Environmental bioethics is one source of wisdom that can provide strategies for addressing climate change, that is, “the wisdom to manage it”. This article will first locate the conceptual origins of “bioethics” within the long tradition of Catholic moral theology, followed by the more recent advent of bioethics within secular ethics. Then, I will detail the two basic strands of modern bioethics since the 1970’s: environmental bioethics and the Georgetown mantra. After this background has been provided, the crux of my article will be put forth. I will synthesize the many conversations occurring within medical technologies, health care, and environmental conservation into three basic models constitutive of environmental bioethics. I have named these “the technology model”, “the health care model” and “the ecology model”. My objective is not to advance one paradigm over another. Rather, categorizing should lead to a more dynamic and effective conversation on environmental sustainability in the medical industry. Efforts at reuniting ecology and bioethics will be a defining feature of health care in the 21st century. And, with variegated approaches to the interplay between ecology, health care, and technology, the common roots of environmental ethics and bioethics can produce a seamless garment for a truly bio (life) ethic.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Ephraim Ahamefula Ikegbu ◽  
Maduka Enyimba

Human actions and conduct have both positive and negative effects on humankind and its environment. This is why ethicists have propounded different theories that are supposed to guide peoples’ conduct in order to distinguish the right from the wrong. Environmental ethics as an aspect of environmental philosophy attempts a justification of the rightness and wrongness of human activities as they affect other non-human members of the society or environment. Despite the efforts of both ethicists and environmentalist, humans have continued to conduct themselves in a manner, most unhealthy to the environmental resources. This is the problematic that informed this research on “Ethics, Environment and Philosophy:  Towards Sustainable Development in Africa”. The main objective is to apply selected ethical theories to the philosophical study of environment in order to ascertain their implications for sustainable development in Africa. To achieve this goal, philosophical methods of critical analysis, conceptual clarification and deduction were employed in the examination and exposition of the nature and tenets of the following selected ethical theories: Platonism, Hedonism, Subjectivism, Teleologism and Deontologism. It was discovered upon application that, these theories present both positive and negative implication for environment, philosophy and development. Hence, humans must be positively minded whenever they undertake any action be it from the perspective of Platonists, Hedonists, Subjectivists, Teleologists or Deontologists. If there must be development and sustainability in the environment, then the positive aspects of each of these theories must be harnessed to yield what this paper describes as environmental eclecticism. Keywords: Ethical Theories, Environment, Philosophy, Sustainable Development, Environmental Eclecticism.


BIO-PEDAGOGI ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Dini Pusparini

Based on the results of science learning process in SMP Negeri 3 Kusan Hilir, in the learning process especially KD 7.2 and KD. 7.4 on Ecosystems, learners are always given conceptual learning and teachers are reluctant to invite directly to the environment to learn, learners do not do the learning in groups so that learning is still centered on the teacher. Such learning leads to the lack of creativity and involvement of learners in the learning process that impacts on the classical completeness of only 60%. The purpose of this study is to improve the ability to think critically about what is happening in their environment and to instill environmental ethics in their minds, that the importance of environmental sustainability for the present to the future by using Inquiry approach. This research is Classroom Action Research (PTK). This study was conducted 2 cycles in accordance with the effective learning time of 8 hours lesson. Cycle I as much as 2 meetings and cycle II as much as 2 times meetings. Subjects in this study were students class VII A SMP Negeri 3 Kusan Hilir which amounted to 22 students consisting of 10 women and 12 men. The results showed that by using the Inkuiri approach can improve students' critical thinking skills from classical mastery 13.63% in the first cycle of meeting 1 to 45.50% at the 2nd meeting and 68% in the second cycle of meeting 1 to 95% At the meeting 2. The cognitive learning outcomes of learners have increased from classical completeness 22.72% in the first cycle of meeting 1 to 55% at meetings 2 and 77% in cycle II meeting 1 to 95% at the meeting 2. The implementation process Lessons from the less category in the first cycle of meeting 1 become sufficient category at the 2nd meeting and from the good category in the second cycle of meeting 1 become very good category at the meeting 2. Positive student response to the learning process using Inquiry approach.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
Oki Sadma

The waste problem has become a global public concern in sustainable development goals (SDGs) through the concept of "zero waste". The uncontrolled waste problem causes environmental quality degradation which then affects the environmental resilience of an area. The application of green business practices in a green startup companies is one of the business development models that supports the goals of a green economy and environmental sustainability. This study aims to find the development of a green startup of “Sampah Muda” in reducing waste problem in Semarang City and to describe the implication of developing a green startup “Sampah Muda” to environmental resilience. The results demonstrate that the development of “Sampah Muda” is carried out by implementing environmental-based business practices through the application of green startup characteristics and based on the right development basis as a determining factor for the startup success factors. Research shows that the development of environmental-based startup "green startup" “Sampah Muda” has positive implications for environmental resilience. Environmental resilience conditions are reflected in the preservation of environmental elements including abiotic, biotic, and socio-cultural from the implementation of environmental ethics in startup activities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Md. Abu Sayem

The present paper deals with Islamic moral teachings of the environment from a Qur’ānic perspective. It attempts to correlate some familiar Qur’ānic terms with human moral responsibility towards the natural world. The paper investigates whether the Islamic view of the natural world supports the anthropocentric and bio-centric approach to environmental ethics or not. In so doing, the paper aims to present an Islamic balancing approach to the environment, show why such a unique approach is necessary to address the present environmental degradation, and how it can work for environmental sustainability.


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riham R. Rizk

Purpose – This paper aims to elaborate and discuss key Islamic principles of relevance to environmental ethics and sustainability agendas and reflect on implications for the operations of Islamic financial institutions (IFIs). Design/methodology/approach – An exploration of the tenets of environmental sustainability enshrined in Islamic Shariah through a review of key Islamic texts and relevant prior literature. Findings – The Islamic approach to the environment is holistic and unequivocal. Qur’anic verses describing nature and natural phenomena outnumber verses dealing with commandments and sacraments. Centrality of the environment in the Shari’ah and the Islamic injunction to command right and forbid wrong are suggestive of an affirmative sustainability agenda for IFIs. Practical implications – Implications and opportunities for corporate managers, environmental movements and policy makers. Originality/value – By encouraging Muslim engagement in Ijtihad, this work contributes to conceptual development within Islam. It will also be of value to accountability and ecology researchers seeking a better understanding of ecological practices and the internal histories of religions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Zagonari

This paper develops a theoretical framework to assess the feasibility of environmental sustainability solutions, at local and global levels, based on the religious environmental ethics of several key religions: Hinduism (including Jainism), Buddhism (including Confucianism and Daoism), Judaism, Christianity (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism), and Islam. Solutions are defined in terms of consumption (measured by GDP), environment use (measured by the ecological footprint), and welfare for representative individuals. Empirical insights for alternative religious environmental ethics focus on the relative importance attached to the consumption of goods (α) vs. involvement in a (local/global) community, and on the importance attached to the environment within the (local/global) community (μ). In terms of feasibility for national environmental problems (i.e., pairs of α and μ achieving sustainability, in countries where the religion is a majority) and consistency (i.e., coherence with the religion’s precepts) of policies for national environmental problems: Hinduism = uddhism > Islam > Judaism. Christianity produced no feasible solutions. In terms of effectiveness for global environmental problems (i.e., pairs of α and μ achieving global sustainability, if inequalities among nations are reduced in the future) and replicability for local environmental problems (i.e., pairs of α and μ achieving sustainability in countries where the religion is a minority): Hinduism = Buddhism > Judaism > Islam.


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