The new environmental ethics as the basis of ecosystems stability, quality of life and culture
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (US)
This paper reports that the components for the quality of life pursuit and realization in modern times may be: Practical measures to control pollutions and prevent degradation and disruption in the ecosystem, i.e., an overall strategy of technological advancement in environmental sciences, management and sanitary engineering, aimed at the improvement of the environment and sustaining life and development, and; Theoretical considerations of the ecological theory and the intrinsic values in nature; its richness, stability and diversity. These values-reverence for life - are not entirely independent of the usefulness of the non-human world (ecosystems, rivers, landscapes, lakes, watersheds, oceans, forests, clean air and water in the biosphere) nor irrelevant to practical measures.
- OSTI ID:
- 5904787
- Journal Information:
- International Journal of Energy-Environment-Economics; (United States), Vol. 1:1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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