Global Environmental Ethics for Developm

In addition to climate change, the seizure of resources, together with land-grabbing and ecological contamination and destruction, are pervasive throughout the world. State, corporate, and illicit power enable these circumstances, whether by managerial incompetence, or by force or finance, including invasion and corruption. In some cases, well-intentioned measures meet with antagonism, as a result of failed communication and participation. The voices of indigenous peoples are often among those purposefully or negligently unheard. In this course, development ethics, including environmental justice, are explained, as is their applicability in what is increasingly a global environment for which we are inescapably responsible.