Biodiversity offsetting’s lingering issue
under-compensation
Informazioni aggiuntive
Autori
Conti L. G.
Tipo
Articolo pubblicato in rivista scientifica
Anno
2024
Lingua
Inglese
Sommario
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.
Parole chiave
Biodiversity , Offsetting , Compensation , Justice , Natural disasters
Periodico
Ethics, policy & environment
Diffusione
Licenza
CC BY-NC-ND
Visibilità
Pubblico
Status open access
Hybrid
