Ethics to Intersect Civic Participation and Formal Guidance

Sustainability

Martin Bohle¹  Eduardo Marone²  CorneliaE. Nauen³ 

[1] DG Research and Innovation, European Commission, 1149 Brussels, Belgium;FUNPAR/IOI, CEM-UFPR Curitiba, Paraná CEP 80010-200, Brazil;Mundus maris-Sciences and Arts for Sustainability asbl, 1040 Brussels, Belgium;

关键词: sustainable governance;    social-ecological systems;    ethical frameworks;    civic participation;    small-scale fisheries;    moral adequacy;    Law of the Sea;    human niche-building;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su11030773

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Sound governance arrangement in socio-ecological systems (human niche) combines different means of sense-making. The sustainability of human niche-building depends on the governability of the social-ecological systems (SES) forming the niche. Experiences from small-scale marine fisheries and seabed mining illustrate how ethical frameworks, civic participation and formalised guidance combine in the context of a “blue economy„. Three lines of inquiries contextualise these experiences driving research questions, such as “what is the function of ethics for governability?„ First, complex-adaptive SES are featured to emphasise the sense-making feedback loop in SES. Actors are part of this feedback loop and can use different means of sense-making to guide their actions. Second, the “Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries„ and geoethical thinking are featured to highlight the relevance of actor-centric concepts. Third, Kohlberg’s model of “stages of moral adequacy„ and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are used to show how to strengthen actor-centric virtue-ethics. Combining these lines of inquiry leads to the conclusion that ethical frameworks, civic participation and formalised guidance, when put in a mutual context, support governability and multi-actor/level policy-making. Further research could explore how creativity can strengthen civic participation, a feature only sketched here.

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