The Necessity and Features of Research on Environmental Ethics

Environmental Conservation depends on individuals and can be affected by their attitude and beliefs. The perception of human-nature interaction and valuing the environment will ultimately build up living environment and also a basis for interacting with other creatures. Environmental ethics is a guarantee for behaving rightly with creatures and conserving nature from being damaged. Thus, environmental ethics education has been receiving more attention in recent discourse on environmental conservation in order to train ethical persons in relation to the environment. Based on descriptive methodology, present article tries to illuminate two important things. First, it attempts to answer the question of why scientific and research institutes like universities and theological schools should pay enough attention to research on environmental ethics. Second, it tries to indicate some important distinctive features of environmental ethics which should be considered in the area of research on environmental ethics. This article concludes that it is a vocation for scientific and research institutes to enhance environmental knowledge and practice of environmental ethics in community. For this reason and because of some characteristics of environmental ethics like its extent, interdisciplinary and pluralistic nature, researchers need to use para-disciplinary research methodologies in order to form some appropriate theories and approaches which are crucial to establish home statute of moral environmental code.