BioConcepts

ecological ethicsökologische Ethik (ger.)

• ecological: Of, relating to, or involving the interrelationships between living organisms and their environment. Later also: environmental; of or relating to the natural environment. (OED)
  category bioethics

  1955

  ecological ethics are also the ethics of Regional Planning

  Glikson, A. (1955). Regional Planning and Development: 28-9.

  1961

  The most basic of the major weaknesses in this work is hardly discernible except by a careful reading between the lines-Vogt's greater concern for the habitat than for the inhabitants. “It is better to let human beings die than to let the earth die, since more human beings can spring from the restored earth... The habitat is more important than the species that lives in it–a point that anthropocentric Homo finds hard to accept.” This stand on a profoundly difficult point in ecological ethics may be valid, but it would require a weighty tome indeed to debate the matter adequately

  Zelinsky, W. (1961). [Rev.: Vogt, W. (1960). People! Challenge to Survive]. Geograph. Rev. 51, 591-593: 592.

  1969

  What Whittaker has done is to put forth some ecological ethics for our country, i.e., what should be the case for solutions to environmental problems

  Stone, J.H. (1969). A national institute of ecology: a critique. Ecology 50, 939.

  1976

  ökologische Ethik

  Sachsse, H. (1976). Der Mensch als Partner der Natur. Überlegungen zu einer nachcartesianischen Naturphilosophie und ökologischen Ethik. In: Kaltenbrunner, G.-K. (ed.). Überleben und Ethik. Die Notwendigkeit, bescheiden zu werden, 27-54.