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9 Environmental Ethics
Financing the risk implies that the organization or entity funds the consequences
associated with the risk (Giannakis and Papadopoulos 2016). One would have to
carefully consider the appropriate procedures, policies, and strategies for treating
the risk. This includes determining what is required for treating the risk, who
is the responsible person or institution, the time frame for addressing the issue,
and determining what entails managing the risk successfully. The final steps for
environmental risk management are implementation, review, and evaluation of the
management plan. Risk management is critical for ensuring that wastes are managed
appropriately.
Identify four benefits of evaluation in environmental risk assessment. What
challenges are experienced during the implementation phase?
Monitoring and reviewing are ongoing processes of risk management that are
integral for every step. In addition, it is critical for ensuring that relevant information
generated by the process is captured, used, and maintained.
9.7 Ethics of Waste
The morality of waste is an area that has received little attention in contemporary
research. However, Gay Hawkins’ book, The Ethics of Waste, provides a detailed
account of the matter and puts forth arguments raised in consideration of ethics
of waste. Waste is provocative, but people and industries still find it convenient to
generate and dump in unethical ways, meaning that they are dumped in streams,
rivers, oceans, and open grounds. Hawkins’s (2006) argument is premised on
the notion that if humans would become ethically responsible for the waste they
generate, then we would have fewer incidences of pollution and the spread of
diseases or other issues associated with the waste. Hawkins believes that waste
is constructed as bad in moral terms. Despite this, our consumption economy
tends to encourage redundancy, excess, and disposal. It appears that our life is
influenced or governed by two major competing imperatives: a “don’t care attitude”
and “just produce waste.” Environmental responses to the two imperatives have
been dominated, as Hawkins (2006) states in Chap. 1, by “disenchantment stories”
whereby nature is perceived as the victim of contamination and exploitation. At
the same time, humans are perceived as being alienated from the natural world.
Politically, this results in various dominant responses. First, the emphasis by deep
ecology to eliminate a sense of separateness regarding nature and the person in
which waste is made to become redundant by adopting an ethos of constant renewal.
The second response is the incremental focus on basically altering waste practices
by developing new values and behaviors at a personal level. Hawkins does not
9 Environmental Ethics
Financing the risk implies that the organization or entity funds the consequences
associated with the risk (Giannakis and Papadopoulos 2016). One would have to
carefully consider the appropriate procedures, policies, and strategies for treating
the risk. This includes determining what is required for treating the risk, who
is the responsible person or institution, the time frame for addressing the issue,
and determining what entails managing the risk successfully. The final steps for
environmental risk management are implementation, review, and evaluation of the
management plan. Risk management is critical for ensuring that wastes are managed
appropriately.
Identify four benefits of evaluation in environmental risk assessment. What
challenges are experienced during the implementation phase?
Monitoring and reviewing are ongoing processes of risk management that are
integral for every step. In addition, it is critical for ensuring that relevant information
generated by the process is captured, used, and maintained.
9.7 Ethics of Waste
The morality of waste is an area that has received little attention in contemporary
research. However, Gay Hawkins’ book, The Ethics of Waste, provides a detailed
account of the matter and puts forth arguments raised in consideration of ethics
of waste. Waste is provocative, but people and industries still find it convenient to
generate and dump in unethical ways, meaning that they are dumped in streams,
rivers, oceans, and open grounds. Hawkins’s (2006) argument is premised on
the notion that if humans would become ethically responsible for the waste they
generate, then we would have fewer incidences of pollution and the spread of
diseases or other issues associated with the waste. Hawkins believes that waste
is constructed as bad in moral terms. Despite this, our consumption economy
tends to encourage redundancy, excess, and disposal. It appears that our life is
influenced or governed by two major competing imperatives: a “don’t care attitude”
and “just produce waste.” Environmental responses to the two imperatives have
been dominated, as Hawkins (2006) states in Chap. 1, by “disenchantment stories”
whereby nature is perceived as the victim of contamination and exploitation. At
the same time, humans are perceived as being alienated from the natural world.
Politically, this results in various dominant responses. First, the emphasis by deep
ecology to eliminate a sense of separateness regarding nature and the person in
which waste is made to become redundant by adopting an ethos of constant renewal.
The second response is the incremental focus on basically altering waste practices
by developing new values and behaviors at a personal level. Hawkins does not