Environmental Values Rebecca Wallace September 25th, 2014 SCI/362SCI/362 Instructor: Gretchen Messier When it comes to the environment there are values individuals have for the ethical point of view for a better living environment. Individuals form their environmental ethics to have the knownledge of the environmental impact. There are methods used for individuals to understand the involvement of environmental issues for reconsideratio of his or her values of the environmental issues. The ethical systems are used and identify for the eenvironmental impacts of the affects on society. To continue to have a better environment it could use some knownledge of improving the environmental problems with solving them.
Women of the Earth Celine Krauss, the author of the article “Women of Color on the Front Line” Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color, writes about the ways in which women from all different backgrounds come together to protest environmental justice in their communities. In this article, Krauss draws out the differences between the women of the grass-roots movement from other national environmental organizations. Although grass-roots protests have been ignored and pushed to the side, Krauss shows the reader how these women deserve to be heard and recognized because their issues all go way deeper than just the surface environmental issues and are a lot more relatable in oppose to the mainstream environmental protestors.
The text provided details for why it is so important to follow the ethical norms of society. The lessons learned from this topic could be applied to the team member’s professional careers because it assures the team that our current beliefs match those of an ethical society. The lesson further confirms that business and ethics go hand-in-hand and is just the
Ethics gain from personal experience. Ethics are derived from values. Values help individuals to choose ethically. Therefore, ethics provides the structure for conduct. Ethical issues vary from legal issues because ethical issues are individualistic and legal issues are embodied in a system that governs society.
Running head: Environmental Values Paper Environmental Values Paper SCI362 University of Phoenix Nicole Paddock Gobena May 6, 2009 The word value refers to worth. It also refers to and ethical percept on which a person bases their behavior. A person’s values are shaped by their culture as well as their personal experiences. There are certain values that have become a standard when we think of good people. Those values are compassion, charity, justice, fairness, duties and rights, human species survival and human well-being.
Graduating from Strathmore College in 1901, Alice later went on to receive additional including earning a PhD. and graduating from a law school. While studying social work in England, she was introduced to more radical ideas in the Women’s Suffrage movement. No longer a timid Quaker girl, Alice became a radical advocate for women’s rights when she met Christabel Pankhurst, one of the daughters of Emmiline Pankhurst. The Pankhurst women were militant suffragist who stood by the notion of “deeds, not words”.
My classic values are temperance and justice, I value individual and social balance within the community. This balance can be accomplished by giving trust and regularly dealing with members of the community. I learned that my key phrase is “I am fair and responsible”. My definition of ethical behavior is that everyone is responsible for themselves and their obligation to do the right thing in any situation. An ethical person should fulfill that obligation and be fair at the same time.
In such challenging situations, one should refer to the profession’s official code of ethics, the Ethical Standards of Human Service Professionals, approved in 1995 by the National Organization for Human Service Education (Woodside & McClam, 2011). The Ethical Standards of Human Service Professionals provides an in-depth outline of the professional’s ethical responsibility to the client, to the community, to colleagues, to oneself, and to the profession as a whole. It is the understanding and adherence to this ethical code of conduct, in conjunction with the professional’s innate moral value system that gives the human service professional the power to focus their commitment on the development and enrichment of the client’s knowledge, self-sufficiency, and confidence for a fulfilling life. According to the Ethical Standards for Human Service Professionals, the helping professional’s primary, ethical responsibility is to enhance the well-being of the client, through recognition of the individual’s strengths (Woodside & McClam, 2011). The professional focuses on helping the client realize their full potential and how to utilize their own strengths in order to achieve self-sufficiency, independence, and happiness.
She battled for women's rights and made it her personal responsibility to ensure someday women would be treated as equals. Alice should be looked at as not only a feminist, suffragist and political strategist, but as an incredibly important personal role model with great personal accountability. When asked why she dedicated her entire life to women's equal rights she replied, "When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row", which truly embodies the essence of her infallible personal
Stakeholder participation for environmental management: A literature review. A B S T R A C T The complex and dynamic nature of environmental problems requires flexible and transparent decision-making that embraces a diversity of knowledges and values. For this reason, stakeholder participation in environmental decision-making has been increasingly sought and embedded into national and international policy. Although many benefits have been claimed for participation, disillusionment has grown amongst practitioners and stakeholders who have felt let down when these claims are not realised. This review first traces the development of participatory approaches in different disciplinary and geographical contexts, and reviews typologies that can be used to categorise and select participatory methods.