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Chapter 4 - Greening for a sustainable future: The ethical connection 
Keong, CY 
2021 
Elsevier 
Global Environmental Sustainability 
213-252 
Following the findings of the previous chapter, this chapter brings environmental ethics to the center stage of sustainable development studies. Essentially, it highlights the most important fact that the global environment would not be what it is today as revealed in this chapter, should policy makers around the world embrace a moral and ethical engagement with nature when optimizing its economic use. This chapter also provides a cogent explanation of why international and regional environmental treaties, laws, regulations, conventions, and conferences created and adopted for the past few decades since Stockholm have not been able to prevent or even slow down the rapid acceleration of worldwide environmental degradation. 
Anthropocentrism; Aldo Leopold’s land ethics; Albert Schweitzer’s reverence for life; bio-ecocentric ethics; anthropo-bioecocentric ethics; Canadian anthropocentric conquest of nature; the Baiji tragedy; sustainable environmental governance 
Keong, Choy Yee