Environmental Dilemmas - (Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space) by Robert Mugerauer & Lynne Manzo (Hardcover)

About the Book

Environmental Dilemmas focuses on the ethical problems and dilemmas that emerge in place-based professional practices-architecture, landscape architecture, planning, engineering, and construction management. Mugerauer and Manzo connect decision-making to major ethical theories...

Book Synopsis

Environmental Dilemmas focuses on the ethical problems and dilemmas that emerge in place-based professional practices-architecture, landscape architecture, planning, engineering, and construction management. Mugerauer and Manzo connect decision-making to major ethical theories, principles, and rules, and professional codes of ethics.

Review Quotes

It does a real service by showing that the diverse envrionmental design professions have more similarities than differences when it comes to ethical reasoning.

Over the last decades, many books have been published in the field of environmental ethics. Far too few link ethics to practical strategies for environmental decision making. Finally, here is a book that makes a real difference: this important volume breaks new ground by moving beyond abstract theorizing and focusing instead on how to actually make environmental decisions in a responsible manner.

About the Author

Robert Mugerauer is professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington. Lynne Manzo is associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington.