Biodiversity offsetting’s lingering issue : under-compensation
- Conti, Ludovico Giacomo ORCID Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
- 2024
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- Ethics, policy & environment. - 2024
English
Biodiversity offsetting is a criticised conservation tool that compensates for harm to biodiversity with positive actions. This paper, framed within a compensatory theory framework, starts from a charitable interpretation principle to defend that biodiversity offsetting omits from the compensatory calculous people’s attachment to a place: an element that cannot be fully compensated. Since compensation theory demands perfect and full compensation, biodiversity offsetting amounts to an ethically and politically questionable under-compensation. Consequently, the paper advocates for a shift to a radically protective justice understanding of biodiversity offsetting and for this tool not to be used to compensate for future damages.
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- Earth sciences
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- DOI 10.1080/21550085.2024.2406174
- ARK ark:/12658/srd1330069
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- https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1330069
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