Guest Editorial: a Pragmatic Approach of Ethics in Interdisciplinary Research on Biodiversity Conservation

Claire Lajaunie (1, 2) , Pierre Mazzega Ciamp (3, 1)

1 University of Strathclyde [Glasgow]
2 INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
3 GET - Géosciences Environnement Toulouse

Biological diversity is the variability of living systems. Biodiversity is now being lost at an alarming rate, to an extent that some scientists refer to the current period as the 6th (or Anthropocene) mass extinction. Meanwhile, due to their fundamental role for life on Earth, biodiversity and ecosystems are highly promoted across many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their associated targets in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Concurrently, the link between biodiversity and human health is increasingly recognized—as in SDG 3 on health—and major multilateral environmental agreements are showing the importance of considering health in an integrative manner, taking into account not only human health but also animal and environmental health in a One Health perspective (Morand and Lajaunie 2017).

Domaines: Droit; Biodiversité et Ecologie; Environnement et Société

Claire Lajaunie, Pierre Mazzega Ciamp. Guest Editorial: a Pragmatic Approach of Ethics in Interdisciplinary Research on Biodiversity Conservation. Asian Bioethics Review , 2018, 10, pp.241-243. ⟨10.1007/s41649-018-0073-9⟩. ⟨halshs-02119878⟩