Ethics in geography: giving moral form to the geographical imagination

Geographers have become increasingly interested in questions o f ethics. In this paper, I introduce the scope and major concerns o f ethics, briefly reviewing recent literature as a means o f situating geography's potential contribution. I then link ethics to the geographical imagination by developing a twofold schema representing geography's ontological project and epistemological process, an approach that unites existing professional and substantive ethical concerns among geographers. Examples o f recent work by geographers in these areas are noted. I close with a set o f broad questions at the interface o f ethics and geography worthy of further reflection.