This article provides an overview of a selection of different ethical viewpoints and theories that may inform the planning and designing of the built environment. It concentrates on ethical positions that have actually informed, or may potentially inform, the practices of urban planning and ...
Ethics and Environment - The Environment and Science and Technology Education - 8ELSEVIEREnvironment & Science & Technology Education
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AI systems used in chicken production units are designed to perceive data about the chickens and the environment they are in, and then alter the environment and the lives of the chickens.Footnote 7 Some dairy farms use AI controlled robotic systems to extract milk from cows [18]. Other exampl...
The sheer complexity of Spinoza's thinking makes it impossible for any movement to use him as a patron. But philosophically engaged ecologists and environmentalists may find in his system an inexhaustible source of inspiration. This holds good even if he was personally a 'speciesist' and ...
Due to the increasing embeddedness of pervasive and immersive technologies in the built environment, a new type of spaces known as smart environments emerges. With them arise many ethical issues related to freedom, agency, consciousness, and the governan
This study aims to address the research gap on algorithmic discrimination caused by AI-enabled recruitment and explore technical and managerial solutions. The primary research approach used is a literature review. The findings suggest that AI-enabled rec
Between 1997 and 2000, UNESCO organized a conference series on the ethical and legal dimensions of the Information Society, called INFOethics. The article retraces the history of these meetings and UNESCO's search for global ethical values in the new informational environment. It analyses the diffe...
While there are differences between the biological and social lives of human beings and nonhuman animals, it also behooves us to reflect on their equivalence in terms of the underlying connections in ecological systems as determined by spatial, temporal, and geographical dimensions of health. In ...
In other words, we need to ‘walk the talk’ in terms of our institutional processes and cultures. There is also increased emphasis on a ‘multi-dimensional’ learning environment as critical to ethics development. Espoused initially by Hafferty (1998), Blasco (2012) expands on this concept ...