Cary Conference - Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World

卡里会议 - 将生态学与伦理学联系起来，应对不断变化的世界

• 批准号: 1058163
• 负责人: Steward Pickett
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1058163&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cary; Conference; Linking; Ecology; Ethics

IntroductionThis award will support the 2011 Cary Conference, Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World: Values, Philosophy, and Action. The conference will bring together leading scholars and practitioners in ecological sciences, environmental ethics, and decision-making to build methodological and conceptual linkages between ecology and ethics. This new integrative foundation can significantly improve environmental management and the implementation of initiatives for global sustainability. The need for environmental decision-making is increasing rapidly, spurred by the rise in human population and global changes in climate, urbanization, pollution, and conversion of natural to managed systems. Wise choices in the face of these massive changes require sound long-term ecological research, as well as long-term socio-ecological research. Integrated socio-ecological research has up till now focused primarily on socio-economic dimensions. What is less evident in current decision-making is that pressing environmental decisions also involve human values, and thus require insights from the discipline of ethics. Intellectual MeritThe 2011 Cary conference will promote communication among ecologists, environmental philosophers, religious scholars, conservation biologists, restoration practitioners, educators, and decision-makers by developing novel interdisciplinary approaches that integrate scientific as well traditional forms of ecological knowledge, worldviews and ethical values to address global scale socio-ecological problems. In this way the Conference will advance theoretical foundations to better understand the plurality of forms of ecological knowledge and values, as well as the interrelations between them. As a shared starting point, the work of the ecologist, game manager, and forester Aldo Leopold (who was President of the Ecological Society of America in 1947) offers a widely recognized pioneering integration of ethics and ecology. Examining Leopold's work in light of recent advances in both science and ethics and today's global scale of environmental problems will serve to advance the integration of environmental ethics and ecological science. Potential Broader ImpactsThe proposed Cary Conference will stimulate wider development of the field of ecological ethics by focusing the efforts of a broad interdisciplinary network of scholars and practitioners. The conference will also articulate an action plan for improved integration of ecological sciences and environmental philosophy, including interdisciplinary research, undergraduate and graduate training, practice, and place-based projects. There is particular need for careful consideration of the ethical implications of ecological restoration, adaptive management, and management of exotic invasive species. The fundamental importance of broadening socio-ecological research to include an ethical dimension, and better integrating human values in environmental decision making in this rapidly changing age makes this perhaps the most compelling of the topics we have addressed in the 26 years of Cary Conference history.

介绍这一奖项将支持2011年卡里会议，将生态和道德与不断变化的世界联系起来：价值观，哲学和行动。该会议将汇集生态科学，环境伦理和决策的领先学者和从业人员，以在生态学与伦理学之间建立方法论和概念上的联系。这个新的综合基础可以显着改善环境管理和实施全球可持续性计划。人们对环境决策的需求正在迅速增加，这是由于人口的增加以及气候，城市化，污染以及自然系统转换为托管系统的全球变化所激发的。面对这些巨大变化的明智选择需要合理的长期生态研究以及长期的社会生态研究。综合的社会生态学研究一直关注社会经济方面。在当前决策中不太明显的是，紧迫的环境决策也涉及人类价值观，因此需要从道德学科中的见解。知识分子优点2011年Cary会议将通过开发新颖的跨学科方法，这些方法以及传统的生态知识，世界观和伦理价值观以解决全球规模的社会学问题，通过开发新颖的跨学科方法来促进生态学家，环境哲学家，宗教学者，保护生物学家，恢复从业人员，教育工作者和决策者之间的交流。这样，会议将推进理论基础，以更好地了解生态知识和价值观的多种形式以及它们之间的相互关系。作为一个共同的起点，生态学家，游戏经理和林斯特·阿尔多·利奥波德（Forester Aldo Leopold）（1947年曾担任美国生态学会主席）的工作提供了公认的道德与生态学的开创性融合。根据科学和伦理学的最新进展以及当今的全球环境问题规模，研究利奥波德的工作将有助于促进环境伦理与生态科学的整合。潜在的更广泛的影响拟议的Cary会议将通过集中精力的学者和从业者的跨学科网络的努力来刺激生态伦理领域的更广泛发展。该会议还将阐明一项行动计划，以改善生态科学和环境哲学的整合，包括跨学科研究，本科和研究生培训，实践和基于地点的项目。特别需要仔细考虑生态恢复，适应性管理和外来入侵物种的管理的道德意义。扩大社会生态学研究以包括道德维度的基本重要性，并更好地整合人类价值观中的人类价值观中，在这个迅速变化的年龄中，这也许是我们在Cary会议历史26年的主题中最引人注目的。