Ethics of the environment and sustainability
Course objectives
The course aims to provide general frameworks on reflection on environmental ethics, safeguarding the biosphere, rights of future generations, historical and cultural roots of environmentalist thinking, exploitation of natural resources and environmental sustainability. The purpose of the course is to stimulate the students' attention on the ethical implications determined by the numerous environmental urgencies that deeply mark social relationships in today's world.
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FABRIZIO RUFO
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
The course aims to provide general frameworks on reflection on environmental ethics, safeguarding the biosphere, rights of future generations, historical and cultural roots of environmentalist thinking, exploitation of natural resources and environmental sustainability.
The purpose of the course is to stimulate the students' attention on the ethical implications determined by the numerous environmental urgencies that deeply mark social relationships in today's world.
• history of ecological ideas
• principles of ethics
• ethics of the environment
• the concept of nature
• the concept of sustainability
• scientific citizenship
Prerequisites
No special requirements are required
Books
P. Donatelli (a cura di), Manuale di etica Ambientale, Le Lettere, Firenze
E. Casetta, Filosofia dell'ambiente, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2023
F.Rufo, Scienza e bene pubblico, Donzelli, Roma, 2023.
Further information will be provided during the course
Teaching mode
Lessons with the use of power points and other audiovisual tools
Frequency
Attendance of the course is not mandatory
Exam mode
The exam includes a oral test
Bibliography
McNeill, Qualcosa di nuovo sotto al sole. Storia dell'ambiente del XX secolo, Einaudi, Torino, 2002.
P. Donatelli (a cura di), Manuale di etica Ambientale, Le Lettere, Firenze
G. Pellegrino, M. Di Paola, Nell'antropocene. Etica e politica alla fine di un mondo, Derive- Approdi, 2020
Lesson mode
Lessons with the use of power points and other audiovisual tools
FABRIZIO RUFO
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
The course aims to provide general frameworks on reflection on environmental ethics, safeguarding the biosphere, rights of future generations, historical and cultural roots of environmentalist thinking, exploitation of natural resources and environmental sustainability.
The purpose of the course is to stimulate the students' attention on the ethical implications determined by the numerous environmental urgencies that deeply mark social relationships in today's world.
• history of ecological ideas
• principles of ethics
• ethics of the environment
• the concept of nature
• the concept of sustainability
• scientific citizenship
Prerequisites
No special requirements are required
Books
P. Donatelli (a cura di), Manuale di etica Ambientale, Le Lettere, Firenze
E. Casetta, Filosofia dell'ambiente, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2023
F.Rufo, Scienza e bene pubblico, Donzelli, Roma, 2023.
Further information will be provided during the course
Teaching mode
Lessons with the use of power points and other audiovisual tools
Frequency
Attendance of the course is not mandatory
Exam mode
The exam includes a oral test
Bibliography
McNeill, Qualcosa di nuovo sotto al sole. Storia dell'ambiente del XX secolo, Einaudi, Torino, 2002.
P. Donatelli (a cura di), Manuale di etica Ambientale, Le Lettere, Firenze
G. Pellegrino, M. Di Paola, Nell'antropocene. Etica e politica alla fine di un mondo, Derive- Approdi, 2020
Lesson mode
Lessons with the use of power points and other audiovisual tools
- Lesson code10600110
- Academic year2025/2026
- CourseSciences and Teaching of Natural Systems
- CurriculumClima ambiente ed energia - Percorso valido anche per coloro che partecipano al percorso internazionale di titolo multiplo italo-svizzero-svedese-francese con prima iscrizione presso l'Università di Stoccolma)
- Year1st year
- Semester1st semester
- SSDM-FIL/03
- CFU6