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Professionals find themselves confronted by an array of ethical issues, problems and dilemmas that have to do with environmental responsibilities. Below is a non-exhaustive list of issues in environmental ethics: |
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1 | Animal Rights |
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2 | Anthropocentrism |
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3 | Biocentrism |
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4 | Conservation |
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5 | Deep Ecology |
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6 | Ecofeminism |
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7 | Moral Standing |
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8 | Environmental Justice |
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9 | The Value of Nature |
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10 | The Land Ethic |
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11 | Economics and the Environment |
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12 | Obligations to Future Generations |
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13 | Sustainable Development and Ethics |
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14 | Radical Environmental Activism |
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15 | Intrinsic vs. Instrumental Value in Nature |
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Complete the following items: |
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1 | Examine the list above and choose one topic that you would like to survey. |
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2 | Then use your favorite search engine such as Lycos, Yahoo!, Excite, etc. to explore the web and visit sites that provide useful information about the environmental ethics topic you have chosen. You should visit at least five such sites. |
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3 | When you are done your survey, write a report that you will then send to your section's Discussion Board on our course web site. Your report should detail the following items: A) A definition or identification of the ethical issue and why it is important to professionals; B) A brief summary of how the issue is presented and treated at each of the five (or more) sites that you visit; and C) A discussion of how any of the components of our VCR approach to professional ethics relates to the issue. |
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