How can the global and local be conceptualized using African Environmental Ethics to allow for just and effective environmental policymaking? This thesis argues that the current concepts of global...Show moreHow can the global and local be conceptualized using African Environmental Ethics to allow for just and effective environmental policymaking? This thesis argues that the current concepts of global and the local promote anthropocentric policymaking. Good environmental policymaking necessitates deconstructing underlying anthropocentrism and creating a conceptual framework in which environmental challenges are both global and local, and where the two can entangle into a constructive whole. The question is approached by first reimagining the global and the local in regards to environmental problems using African Environmental Ethics. Secondly, it is argued successful global policymaking is possible, by suggesting an alternative underlying conceptual scheme informed by ethics of care, ubuntu philosophy, eco-bio-communitarianism, and eco-collective responsibility theory.Show less