Environmental Ethics and Sustainability

Hal Taback, PE, BCEE, QEP, REA, is president of Hal Taback Company of Carlsbad, California, a Southern California environmental consulting firm. He has over 40 years of professional practice in regulatory and engineering issues related to reducing risk from toxic air pollutants and hazardous waste and other compliance. Mr. Taback holds a master of science in aerospace engineering from Princeton University and a bachelor of mechanical engineering from the University of Rochester. He has over 140 publications in the environmental field. His papers on ethics have been published in EM Magazine, Environmental Auditor, Engineering Times, and Southern California Environmental Digest. Dr. Ram Ramanan, PE, CEng. BCEE is a Fulbright Fellow with over 40 years of corporate (ExxonMobil), consulting (AECOM & ICF), and academic (IIT Bombay) experience in the management of sustainability and environmental issues. Ram is an industry associate professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and serves as Education Council Chair and Director on the International Board of A&WMA. Ram holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Ram has published and/or presented 40 papers worldwide.

Section I Environmental Ethics—Genesis and Challenges. Natural Instincts and Learned Behavior. Environmental Ethics and Public Policy. Environmental Ethics and Corporate Governance. Environmental Ethics Training for Leaders and Professionals. Section II Environmental Ethical Dilemmas—Case Studies. Environmental Dilemmas—On-the-Job Conflict Situations. Environmental Dilemmas—Judgment/Decision Situations. Glossary. Appendix. Index.