Environmental Bioethics, Sustainable
Development and Social Responsibility
in Higher Education
Ivaní Nadir Carlotto , Regina Célia Soares Pereira ,
and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
1 Introduction: Bioethical Principles and Higher
Education Institutions
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are essential for developing the implementation of health promotion (HP) programs for professors and staff. Because they have
different ethos and cultures, they act as optimisers of the conceptual aspects and
interdisciplinary values of HP, such as equality, social justice, inclusion, equity,
sustainable development and social responsibility (Dooris 2006; Dooris et al. 2017).
Bioethics emerges as an essential intervention tool when considering the ethical
challenges present in the daily life of HEIs and the health actions practised in
these institutions. Through this perspective of permanent attention and protection,
bioethics promotes and reinforces planned and integral health actions and not just
isolated activities or programs (Carlotto and Dinis 2019a). By framing the bioethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice in HEIs,
bioethics promotes a global reflection on the concept of health, providing a sociophenomenological perspective and addressing the issue of social responsibility (SR)
I. N. Carlotto (B)
Ecology and Environmental Health, UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit
(FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa, Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: 33163@ufp.edu.pt
R. C. S. Pereira
Information Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto,
Portugal
e-mail: rsoarespereira7@gmail.com
M. A. P. Dinis
Ecology and Environmental Health, Information Sciences, UFP Energy, Environment and Health
Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa, Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto,
Portugal
e-mail: madinis@ufp.edu.pt
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_37
551
Development and Social Responsibility
in Higher Education
Ivaní Nadir Carlotto , Regina Célia Soares Pereira ,
and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
1 Introduction: Bioethical Principles and Higher
Education Institutions
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are essential for developing the implementation of health promotion (HP) programs for professors and staff. Because they have
different ethos and cultures, they act as optimisers of the conceptual aspects and
interdisciplinary values of HP, such as equality, social justice, inclusion, equity,
sustainable development and social responsibility (Dooris 2006; Dooris et al. 2017).
Bioethics emerges as an essential intervention tool when considering the ethical
challenges present in the daily life of HEIs and the health actions practised in
these institutions. Through this perspective of permanent attention and protection,
bioethics promotes and reinforces planned and integral health actions and not just
isolated activities or programs (Carlotto and Dinis 2019a). By framing the bioethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice in HEIs,
bioethics promotes a global reflection on the concept of health, providing a sociophenomenological perspective and addressing the issue of social responsibility (SR)
I. N. Carlotto (B)
Ecology and Environmental Health, UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit
(FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa, Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: 33163@ufp.edu.pt
R. C. S. Pereira
Information Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto,
Portugal
e-mail: rsoarespereira7@gmail.com
M. A. P. Dinis
Ecology and Environmental Health, Information Sciences, UFP Energy, Environment and Health
Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa, Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto,
Portugal
e-mail: madinis@ufp.edu.pt
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_37
551