A Workshop on Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World: Values, Philosophy, and Action - May, 2011, Millbrook, NY

拟议的研讨会将主要的环境哲学家和伦理学家的注意力集中在当代生态科学与最新的伦理学理解之间的差距上。 当代生态科学在对野生、管理和定居生态系统的长期理解方面取得了长足的进步，越来越多地利用了最近与社会科学和经济学的联系。 然而，由于全球气候变化、城市化、野生生态系统的转变、污染和人类迁移，环境决策的需求变得更加普遍，生态学与严格理解伦理学可能共享的前沿尚未开发。 这个卡里会议是一个开拓性的跨学科会议，以帮助领先的哲学家和伦理学家一方面，另一方面，领先的生态科学家，在他们的学科之间的接口开发新的理解。 根据这次讲习班的讨论结果，将提出一个新的跨学科研究议程。 讨论将探讨如何利用长期生态研究网络和其他研究和管理平台在美国的背景下，以及在大型和不断增长的国际社会生态长期研究竞技场的生态伦理的研究议程。 环境决策借鉴并在人类价值观的背景下进行评估。 因此，这是一个具有道德影响的过程。 然而，这是科学，社会，政治和经济方面的环境决策，最经常在实践中使用。 将道德层面与环境决策的科学基础结合起来，可以澄清这一进程的性质，并使其在必须确保进程和结果公平的情况下更加有效。 拟议的研讨会将探讨如何将新兴的理解生态伦理先进的对话研讨会在教育计划在中学，本科和研究生水平。 它还将研究生态学和伦理学之间的前沿如何改善从现有和计划的长期社会生态研究项目中获得的研究成果的应用。 来自美国和智利的本科生、研究生和初级教师等各种各样的参与者将参加。

The proposed workshop focuses the attention of leading environmental philosophers and ethicists on the gap between contemporary ecological science and the most up-to-date understanding of ethics. The contemporary science of ecology has made great strides in long-term understanding of wild, managed, and settled ecosystems, increasingly drawing upon recent connections with social sciences and economics. However, as the need for environmental decision making becomes more pervasive as a result of global changes in climate, urbanization, conversion of wild ecosystems, pollution, and human migrations, the frontier that ecology might share with a rigorous understanding of ethics is undeveloped. This Cary Conference is a pioneering interdisciplinary meeting to help leading philosophers and ethicists on the one hand, and leading ecological scientists on the other, to develop new understanding at the interface between their disciplines. A new interdisciplinary research agenda will be produced as a result of the deliberations at this workshop. Discussions will explore how to exploit the research agenda for ecological ethics in the context of the long-term ecological research network and other research and management platforms in the United States, as well as in the large and growing international arena of socio-ecological long-term research. Environmental decision making draws upon and is evaluated in the context of human values. Consequently, it is a process that has ethical implications. However, it is the scientific, social, political, and economic dimensions of environmental decision making that are most often employed in practice. Pairing an ethical dimension with the scientific foundations of environmental decision making can clarify the nature of the process and make it more effective in situations where equity of the process and outcomes must be ensured. The proposed workshop will explore how to incorporate the emerging understanding of ecological ethics advanced by the dialog of the workshop in educational programs at secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. It will also examine the ways in which the frontier between ecology and ethics can improve the application of research results obtained from existing and planned long-term social-ecological research projects. A wide diversity of participants including undergraduates, graduate students and beginning faculty from the U.S. and Chile will participate.