Cary Conference - Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World

该奖项将支持2011年卡里会议，连接生态和伦理变化的世界：价值观，哲学和行动。会议将汇集生态科学，环境伦理学和决策方面的主要学者和从业者，以建立生态学和伦理学之间的方法和概念联系。这一新的综合性基础可以大大改善环境管理和全球可持续性倡议的实施。由于人口增长、全球气候变化、城市化、污染以及自然系统向管理系统的转变，环境决策的需求正在迅速增加。面对这些巨大的变化，明智的选择需要长期的生态研究以及长期的社会生态研究。到目前为止，综合社会生态研究主要集中在社会经济方面。在当前的决策中，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获得见解。2011年卡里会议将促进生态学家，环境哲学家，宗教学者，保护生物学家，恢复实践者，教育工作者和决策者之间的交流，通过开发新的跨学科方法，整合科学以及传统形式的生态知识，世界观和道德价值观，以解决全球规模的社会生态问题。通过这种方式，会议将推进理论基础，以更好地理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。作为一个共同的出发点，生态学家，游戏经理和林务员奥尔多·利奥波德（1947年担任美国生态学会主席）的工作提供了一个广泛认可的伦理学和生态学的先驱整合。根据科学和伦理学的最新进展以及当今全球范围内的环境问题来审查利奥波德的工作，将有助于促进环境伦理学和生态科学的整合。潜在的更广泛的影响拟议中的卡里会议将通过集中广泛的跨学科学者和实践者网络的努力，促进生态伦理学领域的更广泛发展。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，本科生和研究生培训，实践和基于地方的项目。特别需要认真考虑生态恢复、适应性管理和外来入侵物种管理的伦理影响。在这个迅速变化的时代，扩大社会生态研究，包括道德层面，更好地将人类价值观纳入环境决策的根本重要性，使这可能是我们在卡里会议26年历史上讨论的最引人注目的主题。

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.