Just conservation

The question of justice in global wildlife conservation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4079679
AutoresKok‐chor Tan (0000-0003-0556-5257, University of the Sciences, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume16
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12720
OpenAlexW3120157702
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas33

While there is a significant amount of discussion in philosophy on the ethics of wildlife conservation, there is relatively less discussion on the justice of conservation. By the "justice of conservation," I mean the question of what we owe to fellow human beings with respect to conservation goals and practices. The goal of this study is twofold: first to highlight the justice-gap in the morality of wildlife conservation and second to identify and frame two dimensions of global conservation justice for further discussion. Specifically, I suggest the need for more equitable approaches to conservation to address the problem of distributive unfairness in global conservation practices, and the need to "decolonize" conservation to ensure more deliberative fairness in how global conservation problems and solutions are determined

Biodiversity · Biology · Conservation psychology · Conservation science · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Nature Conservation · Political science · Sociology · Wildlife · Wildlife conservation · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ecology