African Environmental Ethics: A Critical Reader

Chapter 1. Environmental Ethics in the Context of African Traditional Thought: Beyond the Impasse (Patrick Giddy).- Chapter 2. The African Emphasis on Harmonious Relations: Implications for Environmental Justice and Ethics (John Mweshi).- Chapter 3. The Moral Status of Nature: An African Understanding (Munamato Chemhuru). Chapter 4. Bantu Conceptions of Animals: Its Consequences for Animal Treatment (Grivas Muchneripi Kayange).- Chapter 5. An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualism and Holism (Thaddeus Metz).- Chapter 6. An African Land Ethic? The Viability of an Ecocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Ernst M. Conradie).- Chapter 7. Environmental Justice: An African Perspective (Beatrice Okyere-Manu, Margaret Ssebunya, Morgan Nkansah).- Chapter 8. An African Environmental Ethics as a Southern Environmental Ethics (Nompumelelo Zinhle Manzini).- Chapter 9. An Environmentalist Critique of Secular Humanism in African Philosophy (Motsamai Melefe).- Chapter 10.Environmental Values in Igbo Spirituality (Emmanuel Nweke Okafor).- Chapter 11. Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics in Africa: From Anthropocentrism to Non-speciesism? (Kai Horsthemke).- Chapter 12. Moral Status of Non Human Animal Rights From an African Perspective: In Defense of Moderate Anthropocentric Thinking (Dennis Masaka).- Chapter 13. Decolonising Human-Animal Relations in an African Context: The Story of Mourning Elephants (Angela Roothaan).- Chapter 14. Ubuntu and Environmental Ethics: The West can learn from Africa when faced with Climate Change (Aïda Terblanché-Greeff). Chapter 15. Ubuntu Environmental Ethics: Conceptions and Misconceptions (Ephraim Taurai Gwaravanda).- Chapter 16. Accommodating an African Environmental Ethics in Naussbaum's Capabilities Approach (Jessica du Plessis).- Chapter 17. We have chopped down the Rain-making Tree: An African Ethical Concern for Agriculture (Garikai Madavo).- Chapter 18. New Waves: African Environmental Ethics and Ocean Ecosystems (Michelle Clarke).- Chapter 19. Cleanliness is Next to Godliness: A Theological Reflection on the Solid Waste Problem in Ghana (Rev. Afia Ban).