ESEP

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics

A diamond Open Access journal, ESEP presents, discusses and develops issues concerning ethics in science and environmental politics, and in ecology and economics.

Online: ISSN 1863-5415

Print: ISSN 1611-8014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep

Co-founderOtto Kinne†
Co-founderG. Polikarpov†

Editors-in-Chief

Darryl Macer, Ph.D

President, American University of Sovereign Nations, P.O. Box 1701, Sacaton, Arizona 85147, USA
Director, Eubios Ethics Institute, New Zealand, Japan and Thailand - http://www.eubios.info/

Konstantinos I. Stergiou

Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Biology, Department of Zoology, PO Box 34, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Aghios Kosmas, 16777 Athens, Greece

Inter-Research Editorial Staff

Mae Rose Rossteuscher

Associate Managing Editor

Susanne Schüller

Production Editor

Ivor George

Production Manager

Assistants to the Editors

John Austin, Reejupriya Borah, Matthias Dirbach, Sherry Engelhardt, Catherine Fesefeldt, Linda Froome, Claudia Hamann, Lars Litwin, Justin Mellersh, Annabelle Meyer, Lars Nordmann, Claire Pritchard, Simone Ritter, Timothy St. Clair, Ian Stewart, Natalie Striepe, Nicole Taros, Tanja Tonn

Contributing Editors

Editors are fully responsible for the review process of manuscripts allotted to them; they decide on acceptance or rejection of manuscripts handled by them.

Kleio Akrivou

University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading RG6 6UD, UK

Organisational behaviour, moral cognitive maturity, human development theory, moral psychology & virtue theory, conceptualisation/operationalisation in social sciences, academic integrity, higher education knowledge creation & dissemination

Mike Archer

School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Palaeontology, mammalogy, evolution, geology, de-extinction, conservation, palaeoconservation, sustainable use of natural resources

Virginia Burkett

U.S. Geological Survey, 540 North Courthouse Street, Many, Louisiana 71449, USA

Climate change, sea level rise, wetland ecology, coastal zone management, wildlife & fisheries management, Earth observations

Bruce Jennings

Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 400, Nashville, TN 37203, USA

Environmental ethics, environmental politics and political theory, environmental policy, bioethics, public health, health policy, and biotechnology

Ravichandran Moorthy

Strategic Studies & International Relations Programme, School of History, Politics and Strategy, Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

Environmental ethics and politics, water ethics and conflicts, human security

Sandor Mulsow

Laboratorio GeoBentos, Instituto de Geociencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, 567 Independecia, Valdivia, Chile

Marine radionuclide distribution and tracer studies in contamination; marine sediment-water interaction in coastal and open ocean; environmental ethics, politics and decision-making

Deborah Oughton

Department of Environmental and Plant Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway

Ethics and philosophy of science, risk assessment, nuclear technologies, environmental protection, biotechnology, application of radio-chemical and -analytical methods, radionuclide speciation

Daniel Pauly

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

Analysis of global trends in marine fisheries; fish biology and population dynamics, and fisheries bioeconomics

Michael Taylor

Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia,Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

Global models of atmospheric aerosol, remote sensing models of urban air quality, development of surface solar irradiance models and construction of multiparametric composite indices

Michael C. Thorne

Mike Thorne and Associates Limited, Quarry Cottage, Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL13 3NJ, UK

Impacts of radionuclides and ionising radiations on the environment and man and on the long-term implications of climate change, particularly in respect to changes in sea level and effects on contaminant transport

David L. Wegner

Ecosystem Management International, Inc., 2609 Columbine Drive, Durango, CO 81301-4511, USA

River restoration, watershed restoration, endangered species, dam removal, geographic information systems, native people's coordination

Review Editors

Review Editors critically assess the scientific value of manuscripts, and may advise authors in matters of manuscript presentation.

B. L. Bayne

Plymouth, UK

Marine ecology, comparative physiology, science management

David J. Brunckhorst

Armidale, NSW, Australia

Integration of landscape ecology and design into bioregional planning and policy development; development of novel restorative industries; coordination across jurisdictional boundaries for integrated conservation, production, social benefits; environmental and natural resource policy; community conservation and rural futures; application of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve program

Matthew Calarco

Fullerton, CA, USA

Environmental ethics, animal ethics, philosophy of technology, philosophy of science, modern European philosophy

Ian Fairlie

London, UK

Radiation protection and regulation, relevant moral, environmental and health-related issues. Special expertise on particular radionuclides such as tritium and carbon-14, dose assessment, methodologies and models

Daniel P. Faith

Sydney, NSW, Australia

Evolution and phylogenetics, biodiversity - including valuation and trade-offs with other needs of society, biological monitoring of man-made impacts, philosophy of science, international conservation agreements/policies

Hugh Sinclair Fearn

Rosemarkie, Scotland, UK

Regulation of the disposal of radioactive waste from reprocessing facilities and decommissioning of nuclear plant with a specific interest in the justification of practices that give rise to the disposal

Gerald Kirchner

Bremen, Germany

Environmental fate of pollutants, modeling of environmental processes, effects of radioactive substances in the environment, science, politics & public perception regarding energy production technologies and their risks

Daniel Lunney

Hurstville, NSW, Australia

Conservation of native mammals, habitat conservation on reserves and long-term changes in populations

D. Osborn

London, UK

Movement and effects of chemicals in the environment, sustainable decisions about economic and social progress

James R. Pratt

Richland, WA, USA

Use of microorganisms & microbial communities as predictors & indicators of environmental problems, impact of contaminants e.g. toxic chemicals & nutrients, development of flexible-design microcosms, development of rapid, short-term procedures for testing toxic compounds

Carolyn Raffensperger

Ames, IA, USA

Science and environmental health; use of science to protect public health and environment; precautionary principle

Kristina Rissanen

Rovaniemi, Finland

Radioecology and surveillance, with special interests in arctic and subarctic radioecology and foodchains and the Russian Arctic Sea environment

David T. Schwartz

Lynchburg, VA, USA

Normative ethics and value theory; environmental philosophy, with an emphasis on environmental ethics