Commodifying Biodiversity: Socioeconomic Approaches to Wildlife Human Coexistence

Copeland, Kellen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71067-9_102-1

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“…Global sustainable development initiatives such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) endeavor to address economic, social, cultural, and environmental conditions while enhancing the quality of life for humans and nonhumans alike (Copeland, 2020;Thomsen & Thomsen, 2020). Tourism is a controversial mode of sustainable development (see Sharpley, 2020) as it can cause environmental degradation and, at times, reinforces anthropocentric power relations over nonhuman species.…”

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Multispecies livelihoods: a posthumanist approach to wildlife ecotourism that promotes animal ethics

Thomsen

Copeland

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Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Research on animal ethics in tourism has gained traction but posthumanist approaches to wildlife (eco)tourism remain sparse. There has never been a more urgent need to redress this paucity in theory and practice. More than 60% of the world's wildlife has died-off in the last 50 years, 100 million-plus nonhuman animals are used for entertainment in wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs), more than one billion "wildlife" live in captivity, and some scholars argue that earth has entered its sixth mass extinction event known as the Anthropocene. This paper presents a posthumanist multispecies livelihoods framework (MLF) based on an applied ethnographic study of 47 wildlife ecotourism (WE) operators and wildlife researchers in protected area WTAs across four countries. Like any framework, it is a snapshot of the authors' thinking at a particular time and must be improved upon. The MLF does not purport to solve the negative treatment of nonhumans that can occur in tourism settings, but rather responds to calls in the tourism literature to acknowledge our effects on other species and advocates for equitable human-nonhuman livelihoods. This paper argues that we have a moral responsibility to nonhumans and the environment, and the authors hope to generate reflexive discourse concerning the role tourism can play in redressing the ecological crisis and improving the treatment of individual nonhumans to foster wildlife-human coexistence.

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Section: Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multispecies livelihoods: a posthumanist approach to wildlife ecotourism that promotes animal ethics

Thomsen

Copeland

et al. 2021

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Posthumanist Pluralities: Advocating for nonhuman species’ rights, agency, and welfare in ecosystem governance

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Cousins

Copeland

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Advances in Ecological Research

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Rethinking 21st Century Fisheries Management: posthuman multispecies livelihoods approach

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Commodifying Biodiversity: Socioeconomic Approaches to Wildlife Human Coexistence

Abstract: Multispecies livelihoods refers to the right for human and nonhuman animal species to not only (co)exist, but to not infringe on another species' right to live with the exception of sustenance hunting or legitimate safety concerns (Thomsen 2020).

Cited by 3 publications

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Multispecies livelihoods: a posthumanist approach to wildlife ecotourism that promotes animal ethics

Multispecies livelihoods: a posthumanist approach to wildlife ecotourism that promotes animal ethics

Posthumanist Pluralities: Advocating for nonhuman species’ rights, agency, and welfare in ecosystem governance

Rethinking 21st Century Fisheries Management: posthuman multispecies livelihoods approach

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