Ecology, Ethics, and Hope edited by Andrew T. Brei.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book explores what hope is, how it operates, and whether or not it is important in our response to ecological challenges like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss and pollution. The book offers an accessible and timely overview of this emerging topic within environmental ethics, a platform for further discussion, and refinement of the notion of hope. Hope has started to receive more theoretical attention from philosophers and social scientists. In light of worsening ecological conditions, the concepts of hope may offer motivation for us to change our destructive ways and conserve the ecosystem goods and systems we depend on, the authors in this collection take stock of the various accounts of what hope is (or is not), what it does (or does not), and how relevant it is to ecological thinking. The book covers topics including the psychology of hope (how it might operate and change minds), hope as a motivator of positive action, and hope essence in the context of a virtue - or obligation- focused morality.