Application of decision tools to ethical analysis in biodiversity conservation.
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14029" target="_blank" >https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14029</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14029" target="_blank" >10.1111/cobi.14029</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Application of decision tools to ethical analysis in biodiversity conservation.
Original language description
Achieving ethically responsible decisions is crucial for the success of biodiversity conservation projects. We adapted the ethical matrix, decision tree, and Bateson’s cube to assist in the ethical analysis of complex conservation scenarios by structuring these tools so that they can implement the different value dimensions (environmental, social, and animal welfare) involved in conservation ethics. We then applied them to a case study relative to the decision-making process regarding whether or not to continue collecting biomaterial on the oldest of the two remaining northern white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum cottoni), a functionally extinct subspecies of the white rhinoceros. We used the ethical matrix to gather ethical pros and cons and as a starting point for a participatory approach to ethi cal decision-making. We used decision trees to compare the different options at stake on the basis of a set of ethical desiderata. We used Bateson’s cube to establish a threshold of ethical acceptability and model the results of a simple survey. The application of these tools proved to be pivotal in structuring the decision-making process and in helping reach a shared, reasoned, and transparent decision on the best option from an ethical point of view among those available.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10619 - Biodiversity conservation
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Conservation Biology
ISSN
0888-8892
e-ISSN
1523-1739
Volume of the periodical
37
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1-14
UT code for WoS article
000894771400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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