Advanced Marine Technology and Historic Shipwrecks: Conflicting Values and Principles of Professional Responsibility

海洋勘探技术的最新进展使发现和利用历史沉船等水下文化资源的能力发生了革命性的变化。这些技术发展的速度似乎已经超过了保护这些资源的机构能力。这种情况给开发这些技术的海洋科学家和工程师带来了问题和价值冲突。要理解和解决这些问题，需要考虑技术发展的效果、法律规则和道德规范的影响，以及市场等机构的结构，通过这些机构来分配淹没的资源。本项目将运用伦理学、法学、经济学、政策分析、考古学、海洋技术和资源管理等领域的理论和方法来识别和描述这些因素。它将包括仔细考虑海洋科学家和工程师面临的伦理问题和责任，他们担心他们开发的新技术的影响。研究将由一个包括顾问和顾问在内的跨学科小组进行，他们将编写论文，并在规划会议和专业学会会议以及计划于1993年夏天举行的讲习班上开会。调查人员将在研讨会环境中进行一系列有指导的讨论，以期在这一领域、课程和扩大公众对保护和开发海洋文化资源的问题和价值的考虑方面取得进展，制定被广泛接受的职业责任原则。这项提议的主题是伦理和价值观研究的高度优先事项。这些调查人员及其相关顾问和顾问的资历和记录都很出色。该项目为研究新技术开发和传播中的专业责任问题的理论和方法提供了重要的检验。结果将对广泛的个人和团体有用。建议支持这项建议。

Recent advances in marine exploration technologies are revolutionizing capabilities to find and use submerged cultural resources such as historic shipwrecks. The pace of these technological developments seems to have outstripped institutional abilities to protect these resources. This situation presents problems and value conflicts for marine scientists and engineers who develop these technologies. To understand and resolve these problems requires consideration of the effects of technology development, the influence of legal rules and ethical norms, and the structure of institutions such as markets, through which submerged resources are appropriated. This project will employ theory and methods from the fields of ethics, law, economics, policy analysis, archeology, marine technology, and resource management to identify and characterize these factors. It will include careful consideration of the ethical problems and responsibilities facing marine scientists and engineers concerned about the impacts of new technologies they develop. Research will be undertaken by an interdisciplinary team, including advisors and consultants, who will prepare papers and meet in planning sessions and at professional society meetings as well as at a workshop planned for the summer, 1993. The investigators will conduct a series of guided discussions in workshop settings to progress toward the development of widely accepted principles of professional responsibility in this field, curricula, and enlarged public consideration of issues and values in protection and exploitation of marine cultural resources. The topic of this proposal is of high priority for Ethics and Values Studies. The qualifications and track record of these investigators and their associated consultants and advisors are excellent. The project provides an important test for theories and methodologies to study issues of professional responsibility in the development and dissemination of new technologies. Results will be useful for a wide range of individuals and groups. The proposal is recommended for support.