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Vulnerability and the ethics of environmental enhancement Pacheco Faria, Catia Gisela 179.3 Vulnerability Wild animal suffering Environmental enhancement Autonomy Ética 71 Ética 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. Depto. de Filosofía y Sociedad Fac. de Filosofía TRUE pub 2024-02-15T13:39:46Z 2024-02-15T13:39:46Z 2023 journal article VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/101477 2155-0085 10.1080/21550085.2023.2200725 2155-0093 eng Faria, C. (2023) "Vulnerability and the Ethics of Environmental Enhancement", Ethics, Policy & Environment, 26:2, 179-197, DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2023.2200725 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International restricted access application/pdf Taylor & Francis