Search results for "environmental ethics"
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Climate Change and Global Justice: New Problem, Old Paradigm?
2014
In this paper, we focus on the conceptualization of climate change as an issue of global justice. While we do not deny that climate change raises fundamental and dramatic issues of justice among peoples as well as generations, our claim is that the language of global justice can obscure the fact that problems provoked by climate change lack some characteristic features of problems of global justice, while possessing others that are not characteristic of such problems. We begin by describing briefly how we got to where we are, climatically speaking; we go on to show why it is plausible to think of climate change as provoking problems of global justice; point out four respects in which this d…
Climate change, ethics and sustainability: An innovative approach
2018
Our goal in this article is the analysis of the state of affairs, regarding the phenomenon of climate change and its impact in different areas. We synthesize the various approaches available in the scientific debate on this subject, mainly the one that affirms the existence of global warming and the current approach, which denies it. Beyond the controversy, what seems to be evident is that there is a multifactorial causality in a phenomenon that affects anthropogenic factors a well. Since some environmentalisms exclude the human being in their consideration of the ecosystem, and if they do, they accommodate man in their approaches always as a variable that distorts and deteriorates the envi…
(A)moral Agents in Organisations? The Significance of Ethical Organisation Culture for Middle Managers’ Exercise of Moral Agency in Ethical Problems
2017
This paper investigates qualitatively the significance of different dimensions of ethical organisation culture for the exercise of middle managers’ moral agency in ethical problems. The research draws on the social cognitive theory of morality and on the corporate ethical virtues model. This study broadens understanding of the factors which enable or constrain managers’ potential for moral agency in organisations, and shows that an insufficient ethical organisational culture may contribute to indifference towards ethical issues, the experiencing of moral conflicts, lack of self-efficacy and morally disengaged reasoning. In contrast, a healthy ethical culture can contribute to motivation to …
Symposium on “Climate Change and Molluscan Ecophysiology” at the 79thAnnual Meeting of the American Malacological Society
2015
Climate change has already had many observable effects on Earth. On land, glaciers and snowpacks have shrunk, tropical forests are being replaced by savannahs, and coastal areas have increased risks of flooding (e.g., IPCC 2007, Allan and Soden 2008, Dai 2010, NOAA 2010, Chen et al. 2011). In addition to sea-surface warming, climate change has altered the physical and chemical nature of the marine environment, including ocean acidification and expanding hypoxia. The scope and scale of future environmental change that individuals will undergo on land and in the sea will fundamentally influence the ecological and evolutionary responses of populations and species, dependent on their evolved ph…
Ciencia de la sostenibilidad: un nuevo campo de conocimientos al que la química y la educación química están contribuyendo
2013
Los dominios de conocimiento más diversos contribuyen actualmente al tratamiento de problemas socioambientales. Se han publicado muchos artículos y libros en los campos de Química Verde, Ecología Industrial, Ingeniería Ambiental, Economía Verde (baja en carbono), Educación Ambiental, etc. Pero hace poco se entendió que estas contribuciones son insuficientes y que necesitamos una Ciencia de Sostenibilidad que los integra a todos. Este documento estudia el surgimiento de este nuevo campo de conocimiento e investigación, cuyo objetivo explícito es contribuir a la transición a una sociedad sostenible. The most diverse knowledge domains are currently contributing to the treatment of socio-enviro…
Education and the Demand for Emancipation
2014
This paper puts forward the hypothesis that in recent decades, pupils of schools in the western world have been given a new form of individuality. This construction has been nourished by both the demand for emancipation as it was expressed in the critical sociology of education (and pedagogy) and by the neoliberal turn in education policy. It unfolds consequences of such an alliance between romantic and neoliberal individualism, and argues that some of Simmel's concepts might fruitfully be engaged to grasp important aspects of today's educational culture. Against this backdrop, the paper discusses the construction of the new individuality in regard to educational changes in control and disc…
Time and energy constraints: reply to Nolet and Klaassen (2005)
2006
Jonathan M. Jeschke, (jonathan.jeschke@gmx.net), Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics, Dept of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland; and Evolutionary Ecology Unit, Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, Univ. of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland. Michael Kopp, Dept Biologie II, Univ. of Munich, Grosshaderner Str. 2, DE-82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany. Ralph Tollrian, Biological Sciences, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Universitatsstr. 150, DE-44780 Bochum, Germany.
Autonomous Nature: Problems of Prediction and Control from Ancient Times to the Scientific Revolution
2017
Bioética para el siglo XXI: construyendo esperanza
2016
La bioética del siglo XXI se ve enfrentada al reto de colaborar en la construcción de un mundo justo y sostenible. El artículo analiza el nacimiento de la bioética como bioética cívica de las sociedades pluralistas en el contexto de las éticas aplicadas, su evolución hasta conformar una bioética global, su actual estructura, los retos a los que enfrenta y, por último, el tipo de razón práctica desde el que debería orientar su tarea si es que quiere alcanzar sus objetivos.