Readings in Environmental Ethics: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

This book contains reflective essays on various aspects of environmental awareness in contemporary times. Though contemporary in spite, many of these essays also draw upon timeless traditional insights. Both from the eastern and the western traditions. The book is conceived from the standpoint of multi-perspectival approach to the concept of environment. It is intended for readers who are, at many items, desperately in need of an understanding of the idea of environment much most holistic than what other book on this issue usually provide. Currently enthusiastic research and widespread deliberation on this issue of environment would it is believed, gain immensely from the multi-dimensioal approaches presented in this book. The contributors are drawn from diverse intellectual preoccupations ranging from philosophy, Religion, Sociology, Biology, Physics to Literature.