Andrew Light, Senior Fellow

Andrew Light is a Senior Fellow at CAP working with the Energy and Environmental Policy program. He is also associate professorof philosophy and environmental policy, and director of the Center for Global Ethics, at George Mason University. Light is an internationally recognized environmental ethicist, specializing in the ethical dimensions of environmental policy, restoration ecology, and, more recently, climate change. He also comments frequently on the ethical and social impacts of new and emerging technologies, such as food biotechnology, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology. On these topics he has authored, co-authored, and edited 17 books including: Environmental Values (2008), Philosophy and Design (2008), Controlling Technology (2005), Environmental Ethics (2003), Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (2003), Technology and the Good Life? (2000), and Environmental Pragmatism (1996). Light is also co-editor of the journal Ethics, Place, and Environment and serves on the editorial boards of Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, Ecological Restoration, Philosophical Practice, and Theoria. A frequent advisor to various agencies on the ethical dimensions of environmental and technology policy, including the U.S. Forest Service, the National Parks Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Science Foundation, he is currently working on questions of fairness and equity in national and international regimes for climate regulation and the social impacts of new energy technologies.

Email: alight /@\ americanprogress.org

Articles by Andrew Light