2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Development of Ethics on Agricultural Economy and its Applications
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11559001
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 展開研究 |
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| Research Field |
広領域
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
HASEBE Tadashi Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Professor, 大学院・農学研究科, 教授 (10125635)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HASHIBA Teruyoshi Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Professor, 大学院・農学研究科, 教授 (20189476)
SATO Eimei Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Professor, 大学院・農学研究科, 教授 (80093243)
KAWAMOTO Takashi Graduate School/Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (40137758)
SATO Syusuke Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Associate Professor, 大学院・農学研究科, 助教授 (80136796)
KITANI Shinobu Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Associate Professor, 大学院・農学研究科, 助教授 (20169866)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | Agricultural Ethics / Environmental Ethics / Ethics of Diet / Land Ethics / Ethics of Biotechnology / Animal Welfare / Ethical Evaluation / RPG |
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| Research Abstract |
Agro-environmental Ethics is defined as a research that makes ethical consideration on the relation between environment of the earth and regional social activities such as a family farm business. This definition depends on the concept of capability that was introduced by Amrty Sen who is a Nobel prize economist. According to this philosophy, the regional welfare should be estimated by the width of citizen's life (capability), not by the economic welfare in consumption of goods.
The purpose of this paper is to express the problems in Agriculture from the viewpoint of Agro-environmental Ethics and check the possibility of applications to the field of production and life. The results of researches are as follows :
Part 1 Environmental Ethics, Agricultural Ethics and Ethics of Diet
The background and frameworks on Agro-environmental Ethics are reviewed.
Part 2 Regional Social Activities on Ethics
The norm and ethics that relate to the incentives for leaders in rural are examined.
Part 3 Ethics of Agricultural Technology and Animal Welfare
There are the risk and uncertainty when the new technique of bio-technology are applied. This issue were examined from the Agro-environmental Ethics point of view. The animal welfare under intensive animal husbandry production is also examined.
Part 4 Econometric Evaluation on environment in rural area and Agro-environmental Ethics
Part 5 Practice of Environmental Education using Role Playing Game
The new model that make the clearer image on regional context among residents was developed (It was named as Context Discordance Role Playing Game, CD-RPG). An experiment using CD-RPG Model was made in Kanayama Town in Yamagata prefecture. It was proved that CD-RPG is methodologically appropriate to apply the issue that requires the basic
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