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ethics

Over the years I have been occasionally active on issues of professional ethics. I have given presentations at various professional meetings. I taught a course on professional ethics at Yale in fall 2004, and am developing a distance learning course on the subject through the Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts.

I edited a readings volume, Ethics in Forestry, Portland Oregon: Timber Press, which is unfortunately out of print, but easily available through used book websites or interlibrary loan.

In summer 2007, The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies published my short book, Professionnal Ethics for Natural Resource and Environmental Managers: A Primer.

Chapters may be downloaded free of charge, and a softcover book ordered at: www.environment.yale.edu.

LCI Writings on Professional Ethics

Irland, Professional Ethics for Natural Resource and Environmental Managers: A Primer. Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, 2007. 210 pp.

Irland, "Getting and Keeping Secrets." The Consultant. Summer, 1990. pp. 11-14.

Irland, "Pesticides: ethical problems for foresters." The Consultant, January 1983.

Irland, "Should business ethics have different standards?" The Consultant. Fall, 1992. pp. 30-31.

Irland, "Developing ethical reflection." J. For., April 1993, p. 11.

Irland, "Recognizing and resolving conflicts of interest." J. For. Sept. 1995, p. 26-29.

Irland, "Advertising professional forestry services: applying the ethics codes." The Consultant. Summer, 1997. p. 28-30.

Irland, "Ethical reflection." The Consultant. Summer, 1999, p. 18-20 (an annotated reading list).

Irland, “The Ethics of forest management”. Northern Woodlands. Summer 2005. p. 9. (deals with the “two-fer” problem: hiring a forester who will also do the logging)

In Jan. 2004 I gave a presentation to the Green Mountain Society of American Foresters on this topic. Here is the powerpoint:
GrnMountainSAFethics2005.pdf

Irland, “An applied ethics reading buffet” Environmental Practice. 8(1): 66-71. March 2006