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It’s Ethics all the Way Down as National Parks Undergo Change
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https://doi.org/10.5070/P5.65813Abstract
Despite the presence of ethics in every management decision, ethics language and tools are unfamiliar to most public land managers. Fortunately, ethics is not a complicated, abstract specialty conducted by toga-wearing Greeks who ponder the imponderable. It is the fundamental activity of deciding what matters, a shared deliberation about what to value and what world we want to live in. Park management includes questions of this kind at every turn.