Vol. 5 (05) pp. 432-439 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4128

GREEN ECONOMY: BY HUMANS, FOR HUMANS.

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This paper aims to critically analyse the axiomatic assumption of Green Economy providing a space for environmental ethics as a path to sustainable development. The paper begins by discussing the relationship between sustainable development and ethics by asserting that an economic paradigm is able to determine individual and organisational value systems resulting in ethical perspectives. From this theory, the paper defines and discusses both traditional ethics (utilitarianism and deontology) and environmental ethics (eco-centrism and deep ecology) respectively to neo-classical and ecological economic paradigms distinguishing between instrumental and intrinsic value. Reiterating that value is a crucial decisive factor in determining ethical perspective, the text discusses this with relation to the Green Economy paradigm. Conclusions reveal that Green Economy, although recognizing nature and its intrinsic value somewhat, is purely anthropocentric in its approach and leaves little room for an environmental ethical perspective by definition of environmental ethical theories as it conserves nature for current and future human generations and not for nature itself.

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Lu Zhibo, Craig Sturrock. (2017); GREEN ECONOMY: BY HUMANS, FOR HUMANS., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 5 (05), 432-439, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4128

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