Several ethical questions arise from biodiversity conservation itself, but also from the interdisciplinary research so crucial to biodiversity conservation, and from the use of research in science and policy dialogues. Some of the ethical questions resulting from the most recent scientific investigations are considered in this special issue, by specialists of various research areas (law, ecology, anthropology, modelling and scenarios, sociology) involved in biodiversity conservation. It reflects tensions between conservation and development choices that are translated into ethical problems by the researchers.
The various articles concern marine protected areas in Brazil, the use of technoscience in biodiversity conservation, operation of rewilding of specific species (elephants), scenarios and models for biodiversity conservation or more generally the integrity and congruence of the ethics of research on biodiversity conservation.
All these specific issues have a link with the academic research conducted at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance (SCELG) whether it relates to biodiversity, climate change, forests, oceans & fisheries, land & food, water, human rights or environmental justice.
This special issue has shown that it was necessary to:
- Involve all stakeholders into a reflection about ethics of biodiversity conservation research;
- Develop an ethical thinking about integrative research and its use for biodiversity conservation;
- Promote an ethical reflection grounded in practical issues;
- Consider the specificity of each research context.
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Next Steps
SCELG is built on an agenda-setting research cutting across traditional disciplinary boundaries. With this special issue SCELG Afffiliates aim at opening a debate among SCLEG researchers and their partners about an ethical approach of their research.
