RT Journal Article
T1 Vulnerability and the ethics of environmental enhancement
A1 Pacheco Faria, Catia Gisela
AB In this paper, following the taxonomy developed by Mackenzie, Rogers and Dodds of different sources and states of vulnerability, I claim that wild animals are inherently and situationally vulnerable. This is because they can experience suffering as a response to certain internal and external states and have a high exposure to, and a low capacity to cope with, harmful natural processes. From this it follows that we have a moral obligation to support and assist individuals who are occurrently vulnerable and to reduce the risk of dispositional vulnerabilities becoming occurrent in the future, by endorsing some form of what I call ‘environmental enhancement’. Finally, I pay critical attention to how to prevent interventions aimed at ameliorating vulnerability from paradoxically generating pathogenic vulnerabilities.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 2155-0085
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/101477
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/101477
LA eng
NO Faria, C. (2023) "Vulnerability and the Ethics of Environmental Enhancement", Ethics, Policy & Environment, 26:2, 179-197, DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2023.2200725
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025