ETHICS IN GEOGRAPHY - GIVING MORAL FORM TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION

Geographers have become increasingly interested in questions of ethics . in this paper, I introduce the scope and major concerns of ethics, b riefly reviewing recent literature as a means of situating geography's potential contribution. I then link ethics to the geographical imagin ation by developing a twofold schema representing geography's ontologi cal project and epistemological process, an approach that unites exist ing professional and substantive ethical concerns among geographers. E xamples oi recent work by geographers in these areas are noted. I clos e with a set of broad questions at the interlace of ethics and geograp hy worthy of further reflection.