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  1. An important exception to this trend is Shrader-Frechette [21].

  2. It is important to note, however, that this philosophical trajectory was by no means inevitable. Environmental ethics might have developed very differently if the engagement with the problems of ecological research and conservation management were emphasized in its formative period in the 1970s and 1980s.

  3. Neuroethics also includes the neuroscience of ethics, that is the neurobiology of moral and ethical thinking and decision-making, as well as the ethics of neuroscience.

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Minteer, B.A., Collins, J.P. & Bird, S.J. Editors’ Overview: The Emergence of Ecological Ethics. Sci Eng Ethics 14, 473–481 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-008-9110-5

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