Bioethics: Environmental

Fiore, Robin N.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09483-0_466

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“…(6) Environmental Bioethics: The field of environmental bioethics seeks just social arrangements that promote human well-being, while simultaneously preserving the natural environment [113]. Three issues-technology, toxics, and consumption-stay at the core of environmental bioethics.…”

Section: Critical Sustainability Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualization of the Bioeconomy Concept through Its Links with Related Concepts and the Challenges Facing Humanity

Orbe¹,

Garbisu

Calvo

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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The concept of bioeconomy is a topic of debate, confusion, skepticism, and criticism. Paradoxically, this is not necessarily a negative thing as it is encouraging a fruitful exchange of information, ideas, knowledge, and values, with concomitant beneficial effects on the definition and evolution of the bioeconomy paradigm. At the core of the debate, three points of view coexist: (i) those who support a broad interpretation of the term bioeconomy, through the incorporation of all economic activities based on the production and conversion of renewable biological resources (and organic wastes) into products, including agriculture, livestock, fishing, forestry and similar economic activities that have accompanied humankind for millennia; (ii) those who embrace a much narrower interpretation, reserving the use of the term bioeconomy for new, innovative, and technologically-advanced economic initiatives that result in the generation of high-added-value products and services from the conversion of biological resources; and (iii) those who stand between these two viewpoints. Here, to shed light on this debate, a contextualization of the bioeconomy concept through its links with related concepts (biotechnology, bio-based economy, circular economy, green economy, ecological economics, environmental economics, etc.) and challenges facing humanity today is presented.

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Section: Critical Sustainability Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualization of the Bioeconomy Concept through Its Links with Related Concepts and the Challenges Facing Humanity

Orbe¹,

Garbisu

Calvo

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…Weaver (2016Weaver ( :2772) comments on the situation, saying, '[B]ioethicists are increasingly documenting the impact the health-care industry has on the environment'. The health industry is a large energy consumer that produces millions of tonnes of waste and carbon dioxide per year (Fiore 2016). There is also a serious indictment of an alarming connection between the generation of energy, air pollution and health problems in South Africa (Olutola & Wichmann 2020).…”

Section: Environment Biosphere and Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental protection as a global bioethical principle: Protestant faith tradition in conversation with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Rheeder

2021

Verbum et Ecclesia

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The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR) is an important, modern human rights instrument regulating global bioethical challenges. The Protestant faith tradition was excluded from any discourse regarding the UDBHR; consequently, the universality and credibility, especially in Protestant circles, have been questioned. For the Protestant faith tradition, the voice of the Bible is decisive. An ethical foundation for article 17 of the UDBHR (enviromental protection and health) is, therefore, important, as it can contribute to the internalisation of the principle. In the analysis of article 17, it has been shown that the international community is convinced that an irrefutable relationship exists between nature and the health of the human interconnectedness. A damaged creation harms the health of the human and, therefore, the protection of nature is an indisputable obligation. From a Protestant ethical perspective, this global principle could be associated with or founded on the themes of creation, sin, covenant, Christology and eschatology. Grounded in this preliminary evaluation, article 17 can be supported by the global Protestant community. A few facts from South Africa indicate the necessity of promoting the global bioethical principle in this country.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This study is an interdisciplinary analysis in the sense that it focuses on Theology and Human Rights Law within the context of Global Bioethics. It challenges the view that the Protestant perspective can be excluded in the discourse regarding the relation between environment and human health (article 17 of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO] Bioethics Declaration).

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“…Environmental bioethics focuses on three basic issues: technology, toxic waste and resource consumption. Its objective is to identify problems, articulate solutions and contribute to maintaining equity, dignity and rights 49 . Humankind shares the ecosystem with other species and, given its predominance in the biosphere, has a duty to care for the planet not as owner but as administrator 50 , in accordance with Article 17 of the UDBHR, which establishes the role of human beings in the protection of the environment, the biosphere and biodiversity 6 .…”

Section: As Mentioned Article 17 Of the Universal Declaration On Biomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bioethics needs to be reoriented to its original conception, that of Potter, to deal with human and ecosystem health problems in an integrated and not isolated way 49,57 . Thus, the proposed principles for environmental health ethics (respect for human rights, utility, justice, animal welfare, administration, sustainability and precaution) could be translated into the following ecological virtues 61 : compassion, inclusiveness, cooperation, justice, respect for nature, prudence and wisdom.…”

Section: As Mentioned Article 17 Of the Universal Declaration On Biomentioning

confidence: 99%

Do presente ao futuro: meio ambiente no contexto bioético

Carvalho

Ferreira

2019

Rev. Bioét.

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Resumo Trata-se de estudo reflexivo acerca dos artigos 16 e 17 da Declaração Universal sobre Bioética e Direitos Humanos, sobre proteção das gerações futuras, do meio ambiente, da biosfera e da biodiversidade. Por serem temas constantemente analisados, é necessário ter visão crítica para aprimorar seus efeitos práticos, muitas vezes deixados de lado em discussões que acentuam apartações sociais. Realizou-se busca etimológica dos termos constituintes dos princípios para favorecer sua conexão e repensar seu conteúdo, associando-os com questões atuais. Propôs-se também reinterpretar a declaração, tendo o meio ambiente como pano de fundo. Ambos não são meros princípios na declaração e sem eles seria improvável atingir plenamente os demais, uma vez que os interligam e asseguram vida equilibrada para gerações atuais e futuras, dependendo do fazer humano.

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Bioethics: Environmental

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Contextualization of the Bioeconomy Concept through Its Links with Related Concepts and the Challenges Facing Humanity

Contextualization of the Bioeconomy Concept through Its Links with Related Concepts and the Challenges Facing Humanity

Environmental protection as a global bioethical principle: Protestant faith tradition in conversation with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Do presente ao futuro: meio ambiente no contexto bioético

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