Multispecies livelihoods: a posthumanist approach to wildlife ecotourism that promotes animal ethics

Reconciling Interests among Wildlife, Livestock and People in Eastern Africa: a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach

From the perspective of local livelihoods this paper explores the complex interactions between wildlife, livestock and people, and options for integrated wildlife and livestock management in the semi-arid rangelands of eastern Africa. The paper draws on the sustainable livelihoods approach which explicitly considers whether households have access to the assets required to engage in an activity,...

Sustainable Urban Development with a New Approach to Ethics

  Background: With the massive growth of cities in the last two or three decades and the multifaceted role these cities play, the planning and cultural management of cities has become strangely complex and difficult. In general, there are economic, social, cultural, educational and physical problems in most cities despite numerous complaints from people. The purpose of this study is to examine ...

Teaching Wildlife Research Ethics: a Progress Report

Animals have long been used in laboratory research aimed at improving human lives. In contrast, disciplines such as ecology, wildlife management, and conservation biology aim at the management and long-term survival of species or populations under growing human pressures. Although modeling approaches are sometimes helpful, field studies of animals are typically the only way to test hypotheses a...

Ethology applied to animal ethics

According to modern animal welfare legislation, animals should be protected from suffering and lasting harm not for the benefit of us humans as in earlier anthropocentric conceptions, but in their own interest. The driving force behind animal protection is our empathy with animals which triggers feelings of compassion. Empathy with animals most likely is a psychological side-effect of adaptive ...

Sustaining Livelihoods through Animal Genetic Resources Conservation