Search results for "ympäristöetiikka"

Ethics in biodiversity conservation : The meaning and importance of pluralism

2022

Addressing the global extent of the current biodiversity crisis requires engaging with the existence of multiple equally legitimate values, but also with diverse ethical perspectives underpinning conceptions of right and wrong actions. However, western monist positions have mostly explicitly or implicitly directed conservation strategies by defining the space of legitimate arguments, overlooking solutions that do not fit neatly the chosen approaches. As ignoring diverse ethical positions leads to injustices and reduces the potential of conserving biodiversity, there is a need to recognise and navigate the ethical landscape. Ethical pluralism may provide opportunities to do so. However, the …

Embracing water, healing pine : touch-walking and transcorporeal worldings

2023

This article considers touch as an embodied worlding practice in the context of humans intentionally seeking tactile trans-species contact. In particular, it examines three co-researchers’ tactile relations with tree(s) and water which were explored by “touch-walking,” an immersive method developed for this study. The method opened possibilities for examining transcorporeal sensory matterings and affective flows between the researcher’s body, co-researchers’ bodies and more-than-human bodies. This experimental micro-research brings knowledge about how people form deeply meaningful relationships with natural bodies, making worlds by cherishing tactile contact with them. Theoretically, we “po…

Particularizing Nonhuman Nature in Stakeholder Theory : The Recognition Approach

2022

AbstractStakeholder theory has grown into one of the most frequent approaches to organizational sustainability. Stakeholder research has provided considerable insight on organization–nature relations, and advanced approaches that consider the intrinsic value of nonhuman nature. However, nonhuman nature is typically approached as an ambiguous, unified entity. Taking nonhumans adequately into account requires greater detail for both grounding the status of nonhumans and particularizing nonhuman entities as a set of potential organizational stakeholders with different characteristics, vulnerabilities, and needs. We utilize the philosophical concept of ‘recognition’ to provide a normative under…

Is there a convincing case for climate veganism?

2020

AbstractClimate change compels us to rethink the ethics of our dietary choices and has become an interesting issue for ethicists concerned about diets, including animal ethicists. The defenders of veganism have found that climate change provides a new reason to support their cause because many animal-based foods have high greenhouse gas emissions. The new style of argumentation, the ‘climatic argument(s) for veganism’, may benefit animals by persuading even those who are not concerned about animals themselves but worry about climate change. The arguments about the high emissions of animal-based food, and a resulting moral obligation to abstain from eating such products, are an addition to t…

Ajatuksia ilmastoetiikasta

2013

Ajatuksia ilmastoetiikasta, Teea Kortetmäki, Arto Laitinen & Mikko Yrjönsuuri, 4 Ilmastonmuutos yhteiskuntafilosofian ongelmana, Lauri Lahikainen, 21 Ilmastokysymys ja demokraattinen päätöksenteko, Simo Kyllönen, 35 YK:n ilmastokokousten eettiset kysymykset, Teea Kortetmäki, 63 Oikeudenmukaisuus ja vahingonteko ilmastokontekstissa, Teppo Eskelinen, 84 Osallisuusvastuu ilmastonmuutoksesta, Säde Hormio, 103 Ilmaston lämpeneminen, etiikka ja kulttuurikritiikki, Markku Oksanen, 120 Ilmastonmuokkauksen etiikasta, Sanna Joronen, 137 Kirjoittajatiedot, 153

Lajia ympäristön ehdoilla : ympäristöarvojen ja -normien vaikutukset suunnistukseen

2004

Juuri nyt, jos mikään mitä teet ei ole hyödyksi, mitä teet? : pohdintoja tyhjästä luontosuhteesta

2023

Ajassamme on vahva jaettu tietoisuus ympäristöongelmien vakavuudesta ja tarpeesta tehdä näille ongelmille jotain. Sanotaan että ilman luontoa emme voi elää ja että olemme tästä luonnosta riippuvaisia. Kuitenkaan konsensusta vaadittavista toimista on ollut vaikea löytää, ja suurista harppauksista ja kunnianhimoisiksi luonnehdituista päätöksistä huolimatta juuri mikään ei ole muuttunut, ja ihmiskunta jatkaa matkaansa kohti tuhoa. nonPeerReviewed

Applying the Capabilities Approach to Ecosystems

2017

The capabilities approach has attracted broad interest in environmental ethics. One very interesting application is the environmental or extended capabilities approach which promotes the notion of environmental capabilities that contribute to the flourishing of non-human beings and ecological systems. The approach however lacks any account of the capabilities of ecological systems. This essay applies the environmental capabilities approach at the ecosystem level and examines how the flourishing of an ecosystem can be understood in terms of capabilities. Ecosystem flourishing presumes the ability of a given system to maintain its characteristic functions, diversity and quality, and do so eve…

Vapautuksen ekologia : ympäristöeettisen maaseutupolitiikan peruslähtökohtia

1994

In Environmentally ethical rural policy we have sought to find a solid ethical as well as aesthetic basis from ecological food production for securing the life and vitality of rural life in Finland. Liberation ecology combines the approach used by liberation theology with ecology. A decision made by an individual farmer could be the start of a new rural policy based on environmental ethics. At the same time, it could help people to free themselves from the "straightjacket" of the market economy through increased ecological awareness. The environmentally ethical viewpoint is always a human viewpoint. Although we can artificially isolate in our mind some absolute values in nature, this valuat…

Planetary well-being : Ontology and ethics

2024

This chapter elaborates the ontological and ethical underpinnings and implications of the concept of planetary well-being. We illustrate how planetary well-being can contribute conceptually to transformative thinking and discussing well-being, and to organizing human societies in more life-considerate ways. The chapter focuses on two themes: First, the ontological grounding and implications of planetary well-being, and second, the central ethical underpinnings and ramifications of planetary well-being. We demonstrate how planetary well-being is positioned in the broader ontological and ethical-theoretical landscape, owing to its process-oriented perspective and morally inclusive (non-anthro…