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Overview
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.
Dorinda G. Dallmeyer is the associate director of the University of Georgia's Dean Rusk Center--International, Comparative, and Graduate Legal Studies, and a faculty member of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program at the University of Georgia. She is the editor of Joining Together, Standing Apart: National Identities after Nafta and coeditor of Rights to Oceanic Resources: Deciding and Drawing Maritime Boundaries.
Synopsis
Interdisciplinary scholars in ethics, marine science, law, and geography contribute 15 environmental ethics papers covering an array of issues and policy matters related to open sea and coastal areas. The articles help form an important step toward moving environmental ethics discussions into a broader framework, including such topics as valuation of marine life and species protection, indigenous peoples' knowledge and environmental stewardship, endemic and exotic species, aquaculture, and oil spills. Dallmeyer is associate director of the U. of Georgia's Dean Rusk Center for international, comparative, and graduate legal studies. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR