Geography and Ethics: Journeys in a Moral Terrain

James D. Proctor, David Marshall Smith

Psychology Press, 1999 - Philosophy - 303 pages

This book represents a landmark exploration of the common terrain of geography and ethics. Drawing together specially commissioned contributions from distinguished geographers across the UK, North America and Australasia, the place of geography in ethics and of ethics in geography is examined through wide-ranging, thematic chapters.
Geography and Ethics is divided into four sections for discussion and exploration of ideas: Ethics and Space; Ethics and Place; Ethics and Nature and Ethics and knowledge, all of which point to the rich interplay between geography and moral philosophy or ethics.

Contents

• PART 1: 17
• The end of the Enlightenment? Moral philosophy: 19
• Geography justice and the limits of rights: 30
• Geography fairness and liberal democracy: 44
• Exploring the ethics of development: 59
• the ethics of the Internet: 72
• PART 2: 93
• the fall of Srebrenica: 120
• PART 3: 147
• Natural and unnatural wars: 163
• The problem of pigs: 193
• PART 4: 207
• Morals and ethics in geographical studies of disability: 223
• toward an ethics of crosscultural research: 237
• Ethical issues in practical contexts: 251
• towards a contextsensitive ethics: 275
• Index: 291

Bibliographic information

• Title: Geography and Ethics: Journeys in a Moral Terrain
• Editors: James D. Proctor, David Marshall Smith
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0415189683, 9780415189682
• Length: 303 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Science / Earth Sciences / Geography; Social Science / Human Geography; Travel / General