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Equity trade-offs in conservation decision making
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posted on 2018-04-01, 00:00 authored by E A Law, N J Bennett, C D Ives, R Friedman, K J Davis, Carla ArchibaldCarla Archibald, K A WilsonConservation decisions increasingly involve multiple environmental and social objectives, which result in complex decision contexts with high potential for trade-offs. Improving social equity is one such objective that is often considered an enabler of successful outcomes and a virtuous ideal in itself. Despite its idealized importance in conservation policy, social equity is often highly simplified or ill-defined and is applied uncritically. What constitutes equitable outcomes and processes is highly normative and subject to ethical deliberation. Different ethical frameworks may lead to different conceptions of equity through alternative perspectives of what is good or right. This can lead to different and potentially conflicting equity objectives in practice. We promote a more transparent, nuanced, and pluralistic conceptualization of equity in conservation decision making that particularly recognizes where multidimensional equity objectives may conflict. To help identify and mitigate ethical conflicts and avoid cases of good intentions producing bad outcomes, we encourage a more analytical incorporation of equity into conservation decision making particularly during mechanistic integration of equity objectives. We recommend that in conservation planning motivations and objectives for equity be made explicit within the problem context, methods used to incorporate equity objectives be applied with respect to stated objectives, and, should objectives dictate, evaluation of equity outcomes and adaptation of strategies be employed during policy implementation.
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Conservation biologyVolume
32Issue
2Pagination
294 - 303Publisher
WileyLocation
Chichester, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0888-8892eISSN
1523-1739Language
engPublication classification
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Science & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineBiodiversity ConservationEcologyEnvironmental SciencesBiodiversity & ConservationEnvironmental Sciences & Ecologyconservation planningconservation policyenvironmental managementethical pluralismprioritizationtrade-offsECOSYSTEM SERVICESRISK PERCEPTIONSPOLICYPARTICIPATIONVALUESMOTIVATIONSMANAGEMENTEFFICIENCYKNOWLEDGEcompensacionesmanejo ambientalplaneación de la conservaciónpluralismo éticopolítica de la conservaciónpriorización
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