企业环境责任在西方国家的发展及伦理依据

The Development and Ethical Foundation of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Western Countries

企业环境责任概念与实施的时代背景和发展脉络,最初起源于企业社会责任(CSR)概念的发展,在西方得到制度化的实践。环境协同论、环境正义论与责任伦理学可以为企业环境责任寻求理论基础,它们令人信服地论证了为什么要对大自然和人类自身及其遥远的后代负责这个问题,从而使企业环境责任有了深厚坚实的伦理学基础,同时西方环境责任的实践也推动着环境伦理向纵深和广阔的维度发展。

The historical background and developmental history of the conception and execution of corporate environmental responsibility have originated from the development of corporate social responsibility(CSR) and then experienced institutional practice in western countries. The article explores theoretical foundation for corporate environmental responsibility by use of the theories of environmental coordination, environmental justice and the ethics of responsibility, indicating that they have persuasively demonstrated why we should be responsible for the nature, human beings and their offspring, and therefore laid a deep and sound foundation;in the meanwhile, that the practice of corporate environmental responsibility also promotes the further development of the whole environmental ethics.