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Arne Sveinson HaugenNorskTitle: Ph.D Telephone:22438423 E-mail: a.s.haugen@tik.uio.no Subject InterestEthical environmental accounting related to fish farming. Using fish farming as a case, the objective my PhD project is to find how industries might be able to handle ethical challenges in the field of the environment. By thinking in the terms of an accounting system the main question will be whether it is possible or not to find measurable parameters representing ethical goals and positions. The project is organised in four steps. The first is to identify the main ethical conflict areas in the field of fish farming and the environment. The second is to place these conflicts within a framework of ethical norms. This means to find what ethical positions might be relevant for the conflict areas. The third is to describe a process for analysing and handling these conflicts, and to see if measurable parameters might be found. The fourth, based on steps one to three, is to say something about how an ethical environmental accounting system might be developed, and work will be done to develop a master template. The main challenge in the project is the question about how, if at all possible, ethical positions or goals might be connected with measurable parameters. One hypothesis is that the identification of possible inherent and intrinsic values, and of nature\'s worth for the flourishing of living individuals might constitute a bridge between ethics and measurable parameters. |