Professional Development Fellowship: Ethics and Values of Ecosystem Restoration

专业发展奖学金：生态系统恢复的伦理和价值观

• 批准号: 0848911
• 负责人: Alan Rabideau
• 金额: $ 9.01万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0848911&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Professional; Development; Fellowship; Ethics; Values

This project funded by the Science, Technology & Society program supports a professional development fellowship for an environmental engineer to study with an environmental ethicist. Modern environmental problems are fundamentally different from the historical concerns of environmental engineers, including the ubiquity of "wicked" problems that defy the application of traditional engineering tools. This reality is evident in the difficulty experienced by engineers in applying cost-benefit analysis and risk analysis to problems with ecological components, a difficulty that will only intensify with the emergence of global climate change as the defining environmental problem that shapes and influences a range of other environmental problems. These trends require that engineers engage in interdisciplinary collaborations with scholars from other disciplines. This fellowship provides an opportunity for an engineer to become immersed in philosophical literature relevant to the topics of environmental and ecological restoration.The fellowship provides for 1-year of leave from the University at Buffalo to relocate to the Washington DC area to study and conduct research under the direction of Dr. Andrew Light at George Mason University. Light, a recognized leader in the field of environmental ethics, has written extensively on the ethics of ecological restoration. Specific fellowship objectives include: (1) Develop a deeper appreciation for and understanding of the field of environmental ethics with a focus on how this form of applied philosophy can contribute to the resolution of modern environmental problems, particularly the restoration of the Great Lakes ecosystems. (2) Utilize the fellowship experience to enhance contributions to the development and management of interdisciplinary environmental programs at the University at Buffalo. (3) Contribute to the fields of environmental ethics and environmental engineering by developing two collaborative research papers. (4) Develop a meaningful contribution to the public discourse surrounding national efforts to restore the Great Lakes.

该项目由科学、技术和社会计划资助，支持环境工程师向环境伦理学家学习的专业发展奖学金。现代环境问题从根本上不同于环境工程师所关注的历史问题，包括普遍存在的挑战传统工程工具应用的“邪恶”问题。这一现实从工程师在对生态组成部分的问题进行成本效益分析和风险分析方面遇到的困难中可见一斑，随着全球气候变化成为塑造和影响一系列其他环境问题的决定性环境问题，这一困难只会加剧。这些趋势要求工程师与其他学科的学者进行跨学科合作。这项奖学金为工程师提供了一个沉浸在与环境和生态恢复主题相关的哲学文献中的机会。该奖学金提供从布法罗大学搬迁到华盛顿特区的一年假期，在乔治梅森大学安德鲁·莱特博士的指导下学习和开展研究。莱特是环境伦理学领域公认的领导者，他就生态恢复的伦理学写了大量的文章。具体的奖学金目标包括：(1)加深对环境伦理领域的欣赏和理解，重点是这种形式的应用哲学如何有助于解决现代环境问题，特别是恢复五大湖生态系统。(2)利用奖学金经验，为布法罗大学跨学科环境项目的发展和管理做出更大贡献。(3)通过发展两篇合作研究论文，为环境伦理学和环境工程领域做出贡献。(4)对围绕国家恢复五大湖的努力的公共讨论作出有意义的贡献。