Ethics for Disaster (eBook)

Naomi Zack (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023 | 2., Second Edition
250 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7966-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Ethics for Disaster shows how individual and government preparation and response to hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, pandemics, and other disasters are ethical matters. Confronting the social inequalities revealed by these disasters, we must also acknowledge how the lack of preparation for climate change and pandemics has shifted these threats from modern, isolated disasters into constant contemporary risks. This second edition presents four new chapters about disaster-as-risk from; climate change, the natural elements of earth, air, wind, and fire; the COVID-19 and other pandemics; and innocent victims and refugees. Now more than ever, we need good and just moral principles to guide us through the disruptive crises aheadespecially for minorities. Humanism and humanitarianism are vital. Zack combines moral philosophy, political theory, public policy, and environmental science to present new ways to think about changes in the world we all share.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 4 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: climate change • climate refugee • Covid-19 • deontology • dignitarianism • FEMA • humanitarian relief • Morality • national crisis • natural disasters • Pandemic • pandemics • Philosophy • Public Health • Public Policy • Risk • Social Contract Theory • Utilitarianism • Virtue Ethics
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-7966-0 / 1538179660
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-7966-6 / 9781538179666