Environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resources." The main competing paradigms are anthropocentrism, physiocentrism (called ecocentrism as well), and theocentrism. Environmmental ethics exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including environmental law, environmental sociology, ecotheology, ecological economics, ecology and environmental geography.
　　环境伦理学是实践哲学的一个既定领域，它重建了保护自然实体和可持续利用自然资源的基本论证类型。主要的竞争范式是人类中心主义、自然中心主义（也称为生态中心主义）和神权中心主义。环境伦理学对环境法学、环境社会学、生态神学、生态经济学、生态学。