期刊全称 | Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans | 期刊简称 | Blurring boundaries | 影响因子2023 | Bernice Bovenkerk,Jozef Keulartz | 视频video | | 发行地址 | This is the first book to systematically address the far-reaching changes in human-animal relationships during the Anthropocene..Addresses human-animal relationships specifically from an ethics perspe | 学科分类 | The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature leads to a rethinking of the old distinction between individual animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats leads to a blurring between the categories of wild and domesticated animals. Finally, globalization and global climate change have led to the fragmentation of natural habitats, blurring the old distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation. In this book, researchers at the cutting edge of their fields systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations, dealing with wild, liminal, and domestic animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with technologies such as biomimicry. This book is timely in that it explores the new directions in which our thinking about the human-animal relationship are dev | Pindex | Book 2016 |
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