Values at Sea: Ethics for the Marine Environment (Paperback) - Common

by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer

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 National Identities after Nafta and coeditor
of Rights to Oceanic Deciding and Drawing Maritime
Boundaries.

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Philosophy

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Dorinda G. Dallmeyer is a faculty member of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program at the University of Georgia and is also the associate director of the University of Georgia's Dean Rusk Center of International, Comparative, and Graduate Legal Studies. She is the editor of five books, including Values at Sea.