Open AccessEthical Challenges Facing Greenland in the Present Era of Globalization: Towards Global Responsibility
Author(s) -
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.8.2.9
Subject(s) - sustainability , environmental ethics , globalization , political science , politics , arctic , ethical issues , sustainable development , social responsibility , order (exchange) , the arctic , global warming , natural resource , climate change , engineering ethics , environmental resource management , business , law , economics , engineering , ecology , philosophy , oceanography , finance , geology , biology
Recently, the developments of ethics and politics in the Arctic region have again become an issue for international discussion. One main issue is the problem of climate change and sustainability of the Arctic region. This problem is linked to the issue of exploitation of natural resources in the Arctic region, not at least in Greenland. Indeed, the general issue is how we should define ethics of the environment and sustainability as a general principle for the Arctic region. It is important to discuss what is at stake and how we define the problem in relation to the different participating stakeholders. This paper deals with these problems as a case for global ethics and it proposes a vision of ethical and political responsibility for sustainable development in order to deal with such problems.