Values at Sea: Ethics for the Marine EnvironmentDorinda G. Dallmeyer The human impact on vast areas of the oceans remains relatively unregulated. Sometimes, in fact, the only controls over our exploitation of marine resources lie in our environmental consciousness. While the field of environmental ethics has explored rights and duties for land use, stewardship, and policy, relatively little attention has been given to comparable issues of marine environments. Values at Sea makes an important step toward moving environmental ethics discussions into a broader framework. Gathered here are fifteen papers by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including ethicists, marine scientists, anthropologists, economists, geographers, lawyers, and activists. From the Great Lakes to the Pacific Islands, from the open sea to coastal areas, the papers cover a broad array of ethical issues and policy matters related to such topics as the valuation of marine life, indigenous peoples’ knowledge and environmental stewardship, endemic and exotic species, aquaculture, oil spills, and species protection. |
Contents
Where We Might Start | 33 |
A Hierarchical Theory of Value Applied to the Great Lakes | 50 |
Ethics Ecosystems and Shrimp Aquaculture in the Tropics | 75 |
Native to a Place or Whats Wrong with Exotic Species? | 93 |
Use and Misuse of Traditional Ecological Knowledge | 111 |
Perceptions of Legitimacy in Conflict between Commercial | 127 |
Unilateral TradeBased Measures for Protection of the Marine | 147 |
A Model for a Developing | 183 |
Restoring Naturally Functioning Beaches and Dunes | 204 |
How American Ecologists Think about Coastal Zone | 239 |
Roles and Practices of the Scientific Community in Coastal | 260 |
Contributors | 283 |
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