Sentences with phrase «from environmental ethics»

First, in these views nature has only instrumental value and this conflicts with the strong moral intuitions that we now hold from environmental ethics.

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During the first of two hearings on Capitol Hill on Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator faced tough questions from House Democrats over his myriad ethics scandals and deregulatory fervor.

They differ from those environmental philosophers who see environmental ethics as a subdiscipline of traditional philosophy.

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Furthermore, there are other visions of reality from which to learn: visions that, like Whitehead's perspective, can serve as philosophical underpinnings for a responsible environmental ethic.

Instead, I find increasingly within the animal rights movement and within discussions of environmental ethics (although less so there) a perspective that illustrates just how alienated from the rest of nature the human species has become.

Education: Bachelor of arts in environmental ethics and philosophy from the University of Toronto and a nutritional culinary management diploma from George Brown College

It is a large field comprised of professionals from many scientific and educational disciplines such as anatomy, animal science, comparative biology, engineering, environmental science, ethics, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, and toxicology.

Subjects would be taught across traditional boundaries, encouraging students to work towards a basic understanding of disciplines ranging from thermodynamics through the principles of ecology and environmental ethics to steady - state economics.

She has also earned a Masters in Bioethics, Certificate in Women's Health and Certificate in Global Health from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Public Health along with a Certificate in Environmental and Occupational Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, pursuing work and research in health outreach and education, global health, ethics, telemedicine and corporate wellness.

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The truth is, the Brazilians who complain the most are all middle - to - upper - class, exactly the ones who aren't above making a quick buck and / or getting ahead in life, even if it means cheating or treading on others, disregarding everything from ethics to social responsibility to environmental issues, and when they complain about the corrupt and expensive government, it's mainly out of jealousy.

Included is an essay revealing the «ethics» of her aesthetics ---- an argument for abstraction and an attention to truth that is not divorced from social and environmental concerns.

For an environmental ethics unit, we explored the photographs of Robert Adams and the work of Mark Dion in conjunction with a selection of non-fiction essays from Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder, Henry David Thoreau, and others.

I spent the tail end of last week at the annual conference of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, a young network of scholars and students aiming to foster collaborations among disciplines — from ecology to ethics — in studying, and improving, the human relationship to the environment.

When I see beautiful wooden bookcases and other such things in stores, all bearing «MADE IN...» tags naming countries not famous for enforced green ethics, I wonder what environmental atrocities resulted from the stripmining for the materials.

This bio-centric ethic called for nature to be protected from human activities, which, as Soulé wrote, had unleashed a «frenzy of environmental destruction» that «threatened to eliminate millions of species in our lifetime.»

IPBES is particularly looking for fellows with a scientific and / or practical background in: ecological and environmental economics, environmental and sustainability sciences, environmental ethics and philosophy, environmental sociology and anthropology, environmental psychology and behavioral science, environmental history, science and technology studies, political ecology, human geography, human ecology, cultural ecology, environmental policy and law, political sciences and trade, and from other fields related to integrative approaches to human - nature relations and linking knowledge to policy and practice.

Environmental ethics are to the Good Life what painting - by - numbers are to fine art — the numbers in Hickman's «ethics» being supplied by carbon footprint calculators, not from the moral agent himself.

The town - hall meeting saw interventions from experts in international relations, anthropology, geography, ethics, engineering, humanitarian aid, climate modelling and environmental policy.

Every time we choose a more sustainable option over one with environmental, social, or health concerns (or all three, in some cases), we are essentially voting in favor of it, and every time we choose to boycott a product or company that is at odds with our ethics and principles, we remove our financial support from that company's bottom line.

He has authored numerous articles in state and national legal publications in areas ranging from substantive tort and evidentiary law to trial tactics, and is a frequent lecturer on a variety of legal issues, ranging from environmental coverage issues, pre-trial investigation and discovery, effective presentation of evidence at trial, medical records, trial tactics and ethics.

Suggested topics include conflicts and the duty of loyalty, whistleblowing, the adversarial role, judicial ethics, emerging legal ethics issues from new technologies, parallels between legal ethics and other professions, the legal history of ethics, ethics issues that arise in relation to such areas as environmental, human rights, privacy, international or health law, or any other aspect of ethics and law.

Among the program's current target areas are all facets of intellectual property protection and access, privacy, ethics and intersecting areas of the law, from contract, health, labour, aboriginal, environmental, constitutional, corporate and international all within a variety of disciplines, from business, sciences, and the arts.

The company neither sourced directly from the DRC nor from suppliers in the DRC, she told TechNewsWorld, adding that its supplier standards impose strict obligations on working conditions, social and environmental standards, and business ethics.