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Ethics. Environmental Ethics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering environmental philosophy. It was established in 1979 by the philosopher and an environmentalist Eugene Hargrove, [1] and is published by the Philosophy Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Environmental Philosophy (University of North Texas).
Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [ 1 ] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.
Environmental ethics. In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resources." [1] The main competing paradigms are anthropocentrism, physiocentrism ...
A\J: Alternatives Journal—published by the Environmental Studies Association of Canada; Annual Review of Environment and Resources—published by Annual Reviews, Inc.; eco.mont (Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management)—established by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Innsbruck, and other organizations—covering mountain research in protected area
Environmental Values started as a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal closely associated with the ecological economics movement, but also firmly based in applied ethics. Subjects covered are philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, ecology, and other disciplines, which relate to the present and future ...
Environmental epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology concerned with determining how environmental exposures impact human health. [1] This field seeks to understand how various external risk factors may predispose to or protect against disease, illness, injury, developmental abnormalities, or death. These factors may be naturally occurring or ...
Environmental health was defined in a 1989 document by the World Health Organization (WHO) as: Those aspects of human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment. [3] It is also referred to as the theory and practice of accessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially affect health.
Ethics & the Environment is an academic journal focussed on environmental ethics published by Indiana University Press with support from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Philosophy Department, and the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Georgia. [1] The journal was established in 1996 by Victoria Davion. [1]