Ethics and the environment, with a view from the sea

• Alfredo Viso ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional Experimental Marítima del Caribe

     Universidad Nacional Experimental Marítima del Caribe

     Venezuela

     
• Localización: Maritime Transport'14 / coord. por Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra, 2014, ISBN 978-84-9880-483-6, págs. 699-710
• Idioma: inglés
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  • With the end of World War II, humanity begins to realize the pollution of the seas, product sinking merchant ships, especially oil tankers, and in turn to the creation of the International Maritime Organization in London 1959, attached to the United Nations. And since the international maritime community begins to respond reactively to marine environmental problems, in turn starts the development of the market for oil tankers, growing them in large dimensions with respect to the above, but with the first major oil spill accident in 1967, which the organization begins to address this problem. By 1973 the first convention for the prevention of oil spills and the safe transport of the same is signed. The objective of this research is to analyze the current reality of man and his relationship with the environment, with the vision of this relationship from the sea, combining it with environmental ethics. The study has been documentary literature, a paradigmatic axis of environmental ethics. With the adoption of the Code of Safety Management, the international maritime community has contributed to the preservation of the marine environment significantly, as shipping companies managed implanted compulsorily management system, which makes the operation of merchant ships safest, with trained and certified crews. In conclusion, the management of maritime safety has contributed to the reduction and control of marine pollution by hydrocarbons and their derivatives