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  • Linking Moral Obligations, Assumption-based Research, and Structured Decision Making to Inform Bull Trout Recovery

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    Brignon, William R.
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    More than 1500 species of plants and animals in the United States are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The U.S. Departments of Interior and Commerce are required, under Section 4(f)(1) of the ESA, to develop recovery plans for ESA-listed species under the respective agency...
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    trout Salvelinus confluentus reintroduction strategies and provide an ethical and scientific

  • A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

    Creator:
    Bullock, Claude George, III
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    This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
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    . Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturine and the Shale Gas Extraction Process. Abstract approved Allen

  • Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

    Creator:
    Peng, Chih-Wei
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    In this thesis, in order to understand why Buddhists in Southeast Asia protect rainforests and to establish a solid foundation for Buddhist environmental ethic, my first two tasks are to draw a clear picture regarding two major environmental concepts--nature and anthropocentrism--in Buddhism and to defend the claims that the Buddhist...
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    enlightenment, gave most of his teachings, and died at the base of a tree—what is the ethical foundation of

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    rights, limited moral and ethical questions to a scientific realm, considered by experts and turning on

  • About good work

    Creator:
    Lee, Wei-Tau
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    This research is an effort to explore the nature of good work, a concept that describes work that is beneficial to the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of its stakeholders, including and especially the worker. This effort is divided into four distinct parts. First, the construct of good work is...
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    industrial engineers, and provides ethical guidelines for industrial engineers in designing better work

  • Attitudes toward surrogate mothering theory and measurement

    Creator:
    Vee, Regina M.
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    Surrogate motherhood is a very complex issue with many groups having vested interests. In order to measure attitudes specific to surrogacy a 20-item Likert Scale with high reliability was developed through item analysis (N=131, Part-whole correlation range 0.749-0.478). Correlation of surrogacy attitudes was subsequently related to six other instruments: AIDS,...
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    and moral elements which constitute those families". 12 The Catholic Church holds that the

  • The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

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    West, Rex Alan, 1967-
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    A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
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    to a system of ethical values. What they advocate is a "moral framework" which I call noticing. My

  • Content of an ethics course for nondestructive testing and welding inspection personnel

    Creator:
    Park, Gerald H.
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    This research evaluated the ethics competencies which were determined to be important to the curriculum of an ethics course for students studying Nondestructive Testing and Welding Inspection. Data were gathered from samples of American Society of Nondestructive Testing Nationally Certified Level III's (N = 268), American Welding Society Nationally Certified...
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    . The identified clusters include: I. Ethical issues and personal integrity (18 competencies), II

  • American ideology and the atomic bomb

    Creator:
    Swartz, Scott E.
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    On August 6, 1945 the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The events that led up to the United States' decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese...
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    centered the article on themes such as American dominance, leadership, and moral and intellectual

  • Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

    Creator:
    Clemenhagen, Ronda L.
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    Standard accounts of women's relationship with technology stress women's need to overcome anxiety to achieve competence with computers. Recent studies provide evidence that this woman-anxiety-technology connection is an oversimplification of the relationship between women and computers. New literature also suggests that making computers more appealing will help girls overcome computational...
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    Scientific and Technical Communication presented on July 17, 2000. Title: Virtual Virtuosos: Cyborgs and