Environmental Ethics and Philosophy and its Role in the Present World

Nowadays، the management of environmental issues such as hazardous waste is not simply a technical problem. But is confounded by legal، social، political and even ethical considerations. Environmental ethics asks about the moral relationships between humans and the world around us. Due to important issues of our present world، the understanding of main principles of environmental ethics and philosophy is become essential for all specialists who are working at different fields. The environmental issues cannot be solved without the help of all people specially managers and engineers. The main aim of this paper is to compare different ethical perspectives regarding to our environment. In this paper، different ethical perspectives including humanisms، biocentrism (life-centered)، ecocentrisms (eco-centeric)، utilitiarinism are briefly explained. In addition، the point of view of religious regarding to environment is briefly discussed. Humanism claims that we are unique because of our intelligent، foresight and creativity and on the other hand، eco-centrism claims that all ecological processes and systems have intrinsic values and right regardless of whether they are useful to us. Furthermore، the importance and role of the Codes of Ethics for engineers، which are adopted by several professional associations، are described in the paper