Inexhaustible human creativity and ingenuity in a bounded

Inexhaustible human creativity and ingenuity in a bounded world John Davis, Ph. D Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability Post-doctoral Seminar, 9 June, 2016

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Coasts and oceans under threat From: • Take-aways • Into the sink • “tragedy of the commons”

Coasts and oceans under threat • Take-aways • Into the sink • “tragedy of the UN-MANAGED commons” • Steinberg (2001) The social construction of the ocean, CUP regimes of stewardship • Grotius (1633) • Selden (1652)

UN LOSC and stewardship • Freedom of the high seas • Conditional Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) • International Seabed Authority – Common Heritage of Humanity

Community Stewardship Groups • Participatory management? • Placebo? • Deep citizenship (Clarke, 1996)? • Ecological citizenship (Dobson, 2003) • Barry (1999) – ecological virtues

Stewardship as virtue • Virtue- “disposition to do the right thing, for the right reason, in the appropriate way” Annas (2006, 516) • Virtue ethics acquired by phronesis (Mac. Intyre (1984) A disposition to take personal responsibility for the ongoing care and maintenance of public goods in the same manner as one would for one’s own property. • Practices and ethic

Stewardship (care) of place • Dunecare • Coastcare • Landcare • Bushcare • Rivercare

Stewardship regimes as a package • Stewardship of place • Resource stewardship • Product stewardship • Climate stewardship

Consumers & stewardship