Environmental Health Ethics and Justice
Duration and funding
01.01.2024 - 31.08.2026
Programm zur Förderung der Einwerbung hochkarätiger Drittmittel, Universität Augsburg
Brief project description
As evidence on the dependence of human health on a healthy environment increases, it becomes necessary to specify and justify ethical values, potential ethical conflicts and dilemmas, and the different responsibilities at the individual, institutional and population level towards sustainable and healthy living conditions. Health inequalities need to be identified and assessed in how far these amount to health inequities, in particular regarding increasing and perpetuated vulnerabilities, burdening already disadvantaged groups disproportionately. This project works towards a mapping and preliminary assessment of the main ethics and justice issues in relation to environmental health and develops a larger funding application on the multiple dimensions of ethics and justice in relation to healthy environments.
Project lead
- Dr. Cristian Timmermann, Institute of Ethics and History of Health in Society, Medical Faculty
- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schlögl-Flierl, Moral Theology, Catholic Theological Faculty
- Prof. Dr. Verina Wild, Institute of Ethics and History of Health in Society, Medical Faculty
- Katharina Wabnitz, Institute of Ethics and History of Health in Society, Medical Faculty
Cooperations
- Christoph Knote, Lehrstuhl für Model-based Environmental Exposure Science, UniA
- Elke Hertig, Lehrstuhl für Regionalen Klimawandel und Gesundheit, UniA
- Gabriele Bolte, Institut für Public Health und Pflegeforschung, Universität Bremen
- Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Lehrstuhl für Umweltmedizin, UniA
- Marco Roos & Klara Lorenz-Dant, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeinmedizin, UniA
- Angela Martin, Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute, Université de Fribourg, Schweiz