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Teaching Environmental Ethics:

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Teaching Environmental Ethics:

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Non-indigenous Invasive Species As A Study of Human Relationships to Nature

Dorothy Boorse

Leiden

Brill

"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."

2004

323-335

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

8/2-3

1568-5357

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

EXOTIC SPECIES

INVASIVE SPECIES

Dorothy Boorse

10.1163/1568535042690862

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