Environmental ethics beyond principle? The case for a pragmatic contextualism

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-156

  Minteer, Ben A ^a   Corley, Elizabeth A ^a   Manning, Robert E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextualism; Empirical study; Environmental ethics; Pragmatism; Public attitudes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; ETHICS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

EID: 1942533041     PISSN: 11877863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JAGE.0000017392.71870.1f     Document Type: Article

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