Ethical recommendations for ocean observation.

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2018Author
Barbier, Michèle
Reitz, Anja
Pabortsava, Katsiaryna
Wölf, Anne-Cathrin
Hahn, Tobias
Whoriskey, Fred
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The United Nations proclaimed a decade of marine
science for sustainable development (2021–2030) to develop
a common framework that will ensure that ocean science
can fully support countries in achieving the goal of sustainable
development. Marine scientific understanding is fundamental
to managing human activities that affect this environment,
and ocean observations have a particularly important
role in enhancing the knowledge base of our oceans.
With this important task, scientists have the responsibility to
act in an ethical way and apply all the fundamental principles
described in the Cape Town statement: (a) ethical values,
(b) social values and (c) cultural values (Peppoloni and
Di Capua, 2017).
This article is a first attempt to highlight the core values applicable
to ocean observation, which can then be improved
and adopted as part of geoethics and the stewardship of the
Earth system. It opens up avenues for reflection on geoethical
implications in the field of.....
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https://www.adv-geosci.net/45/343/2018/Journal
Advances in GeosciencesVolume
45Page Range
pp.343-361Document Language
enSustainable Development Goals (SDG)
14Best Practice Type
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https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-45-343-2018Citation
Barbier, M.; Reitz, A.; Pabortsava, K.; Wölfl, A.-C.; Hahn, T.; and Whoriskey, F. (2018) Ethical recommendations for ocean observation, Advances in Geosciences, 45, pp.343-361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-45-343-2018.Collections
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