Values at Sea: Ethics for the Marine Environment - Paperback

by Ben G. Blount (Contribution by), Bryan Norton (Contribution by), Clark Wolf (Contribution by)

The human impact on vast areas of the oceans remains relatively unregulated. Sometimes, in fact, the only controls over our exploitation of marine resources lie in our environmental consciousness. While the field of environmental ethics has explored rights and duties for land use, stewardship, and policy, relatively little attention has been given to comparable issues of marine environments.

Values at Sea makes an important step toward moving environmental ethics discussions into a broader framework. Gathered here are fifteen papers by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including ethicists, marine scientists, anthropologists, economists, geographers, lawyers, and activists. From the Great Lakes to the Pacific Islands, from the open sea to coastal areas, the papers cover a broad array of ethical issues and policy matters related to such topics as the valuation of marine life, indigenous peoples' knowledge and environmental stewardship, endemic and exotic species, aquaculture, oil spills, and species protection.

Author Biography

DORINDA G. DALLMEYER is an award-winning author, photographer, radio producer, and filmmaker with a focus on Southern environmental history. She was formerly director of UGA's Environmental Ethics Certificate Program and associate director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center. She is the editor of several books, including Altamaha: A River and Its Keeper (Georgia), Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South, and Values at Sea: Ethics for the Marine Environment (Georgia). A devoted naturalist, Dallmeyer and her husband David live on fifty-four acres in rural Madison County, Georgia.