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The ethics of governance projects: ethics in personal and public lives
Author(s) -
van Gigch JeanPierre
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.877
Subject(s) - indigenous , corporate governance , refugee , immigration , population , sociology , political science , public administration , public relations , law , management , economics , ecology , demography , biology
Abstract No governance project is complete unless it includes a concern for the ethics of the proposed actions and a concern for the way that recipients of the proposed actions will be treated. These concerns apply in particular to projects involving underprivileged groups such as immigrants, asylum seekers, Indigenous population and people displaced in disaster situations. This paper illustrates the ethical concerns of the people displaced by the hurricane Katrina which took place in the US in August 2005 and which, to this day, plays havoc with the lives of those affected. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.