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Throughout its history, geography, from the first ideas of primitive people about the environment and their attempts to cognize it empirically to the modern concept of the earth’s organization and evolution, has been consistent pursuit of cognition of the changing world, targeted at meeting the needs of society. Geographical science developed an ethics that implies responsibility before society for forecast quality and accuracy; for the conservation of geographical diversity; and for applying ethical principles to search for a rational territorial organization of population, economy, and nature management. Geographical ethics substantiates priority trends in humanizing the science that is designed to address many contemporary global challenges and to promote the creation of Russia’s sustainable development strategy.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Kotlyakov, A.A. Tishkov, 2009, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2009, Vol. 79, No. 11, pp. 963–970.
Academician Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov is director of the RAS Institute of Geography. Arkadii Aleksandrovich Tishkov, Dr. Sci. (Geogr.), is a deputy director at the same institute.
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Kotlyakov, V.M., Tishkov, A.A. A strategy of sustainable development: The ethics of the geographical approach. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 79, 501–508 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S101933160906001X
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