Even if the utilitarian maximisation of benefit is thought to be ethically sound, how to implement a system based on this criterion is not ethically straightforward, and requires ethical reflection about what counts as good stewardship, and about the moral obligation to demonstrate transparency, accountability, fairness and trustworthiness in the allocation of scarce resources.
And the state agency responsible for environmental stewardship is about as toothless as a clam.
Stewardship is about being determined to leave things better than we found them, so we constantly strive to improve the way we operate as an organisation and the impact we have on society.
His entire stewardship had been about nobody else but him – about the team being his, about him being in charge around here, about things being done his way, about what he needed.
"As someone who grew up in the Christian church, where you were taught to love your neighbor as yourself and to take responsibility for the least among us, I had values instilled in me from a young age about stewardship of the world around us and about our obligations to our brothers and sisters," Bond said.
"At the end of the day galleries are about selling the work, not about stewardship," he said.
Often though as Laila Petrie of WWF says, the real business case for responsible water stewardship isn't about profit and loss, but about brand reputation and securing a social licence to operate.
The passion the many rangers we've encountered have about various plants, flowers, insects, animals, and about stewardship is amazing.
"It's about stewardship".
