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" Teaching Environmental Ethics: "
Dorothy Boorse
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AL
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1086228
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LA129857
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10.1163/1568535042690862
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English
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Dorothy Boorse
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Teaching Environmental Ethics: [Article] : Non-indigenous Invasive Species As A Study of Human Relationships to Nature\ Dorothy Boorse
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Leiden: Brill
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Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
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2004
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8/2-3
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323–335
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"This paper uses the question, "what ethical issues inform our response to nonindigenous invasive species?" as a basis to explore human relationships to nature in the context of teaching environmental ethics. While ecologists express increasing concern about the introduction of non-indigenous invasive species (NIS), the public is sometimes unaware of, or ambivalent about, the problems they cause. I argue that this ambivalence stems from conceptual problems—about human-nature relationships, about ethical conflict and about human behavior—that can be addressed in a course on environmental ethics. Such a course can look at NIS in the context of different ethical traditions, and the different bases for action (or not) with regard to NIS that such ethical traditions imply. I suggest ways to use NIS as case studies in either a science course or an environmental ethics course, to introduce fundamental questions and to explore basic worldviews with respect to humans and nature. This paper uses the question, "what ethical issues inform our response to nonindigenous invasive species?" as a basis to explore human relationships to nature in the context of teaching environmental ethics. While ecologists express increasing concern about the introduction of non-indigenous invasive species (NIS), the public is sometimes unaware of, or ambivalent about, the problems they cause. I argue that this ambivalence stems from conceptual problems—about human-nature relationships, about ethical conflict and about human behavior—that can be addressed in a course on environmental ethics. Such a course can look at NIS in the context of different ethical traditions, and the different bases for action (or not) with regard to NIS that such ethical traditions imply. I suggest ways to use NIS as case studies in either a science course or an environmental ethics course, to introduce fundamental questions and to explore basic worldviews with respect to humans and nature."
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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
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EXOTIC SPECIES
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INVASIVE SPECIES
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10.1163/1568535042690862
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