Case study on environmental ethics in sustainable regional development: Responsibilities for different communities
区域可持续发展中的环境伦理案例分析: 不同社会群体责任

This paper analyzed ecological effects of eucalypt planting,environmental impacts of pulp production,economic benefit,and profit allocation on the project of forestry-pulp-paper integration in social-economic development of Yunnan Province in terms of environmental ethics.In the case that benefit conflict occurs among stakeholders,environmental ethics guideline of non-anthropocentrism should be kept to implement the principles of harmony between man and nature,ecological security,synthesized benefits,equity,win to win competition,and the best benefit coverage.Analysis of responsibilities of environmental ethics in sustainable regional development for different communities shows that: the decision maker community is the most important group that must comprehensively consider relationship and interaction between social-economic development and resources/environment while formulating strategies for regional development.It must take the entire,long-term and ultimate benefits as a whole.It also should give up the benthamism behaviors of getting economic profit through damage of the environment.The enterpriser community should pay attention to cost of the society,and take the benefit of the whole society priority to that of enterprises.This community should recognize clearly that only if the whole society is sustainable could enterprises be sustainable,and take the approach of sustainable enterprise based on sustainable environment.The news media community has significant introduction function in the society.It should insist on impersonality,reality,and vocational morality in reporting environmental ethic issues.It should also avoid misleading and confusing reports.The scientist community should take the responsibilities of finding out problems,bringing about suggestions,searching way out,as well as propagandizing,popularizing and educating environmental ethics to improve decision makers,enterprisers and the public in recognizing the nature,respecting the nature and protecting the environment.As main body of the society,the public must improve the awareness in environmental ethics on one hand,play the monitoring role on the other hand,and focus on the regional harmony among population,resources,environment and development.