Conservation Triage Falls Short Because Conservation Is Not Like Emergency Medicine

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

卷:5

Michael Paul Nelson¹  Jeremy T. Bruskotter²  John A. Vucetich³ 

[1] Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State UniversityCorvallis, OR, United States;

[2] School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH, United States;

[3] School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Michigan Technological UniversityHoughton, MI, United States;

关键词: conservation ethics;    argument analysis;    cost-benefit analysis;    consequentialism;    care ethics;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fevo.2017.00045

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Conservation triage, as a concept, seems to have been born from analogizing circumstances that characterize conservation with triage, as the concept applies to emergency medicine. Careful consideration—facilitated through the aid of formal argumentation—demonstrates the critical limitations of the analogy. Those limitations reveal how the concept of conservation triage falls short. For example, medical triage presupposes that resources available for an emergency are limited and fixed. By contrast, the resources available for conservation are not fixed. Moreover, the ethics of prioritization in medical triage is characterized by there being universal agreement on the moral value of the patients. However, in conservation there is not universal agreement on the value of various objects of conservation concern. The looming importance of those features of conservation—disputed values and unfixed resources—make conservation triage a largely un-useful concept.

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