Conservation organizations are asked to be responsive to a number of ethical obligations
beyond that of the conservation of biodiversity: the reduction of poverty, the imperative of …

The “parks vs. people” debate–ie, the dispute over whether conservation projects and
policies should prioritize biodiversity and landscape protection or poverty alleviation and …

In this paper we provide an analysis of the “new conservation debate,” a still-evolving
dispute in which conservation scientists and advocates defending a strong protected-areas …

Two broad types of approaches have been used in biodiversity conservation:(1) non-
utilitarian approaches, which put the emphasis on the aesthetic, emotional, spiritual, and …

Conservation should benefit ecosystems, nonhuman organisms, and current and future
human beings. Nevertheless, tension among these goals engenders potential ethical …

In this article we focus upon a division between generalized schools of philosophical and
ethical thought about culture and conservation. There is an ongoing debate playing out over …

Win–win solutions that both conserve biodiversity and promote human well-being are
difficult to realize. Trade-offs and the hard choices they entail are the norm. Since 2008, the …

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but
unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed. At the same time, these …

THAT CONSERVATION HAS an ethical foundation is widely appreciated. Less appreciated
is the shambled condition of that ethical foundation. This condition is revealed by our …

The “case for conserving disability” under discussion in the target article (Sparrow 2015) is
most accurately expressed not as an imposition but as a consensual ethical principle. My …