Environmental Philosophy

Overview

To provide a comprehensive understanding of environmental problems, including the threat of destruction of the current regime of the global ecosystem, of the forces driving this destruction, and what is required to address and overcome these problems.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• The environmental crisis as a global phenomenon, and the implications of the crisis for Australians;
• Ethics, cultural analysis, political philosophy and policy formation and their relationship;
• The assumptions of prevailing economic theory and alternative ways of conceiving our relations to each other and to nature;
• A framework of ideas as the basis for formulating environmentally sound political and economic policies to replace those dominating Australian society;