REVIEW ESSAY
Year : 2023 | Volume
: 21 | Issue : 1 | Page : 73--82
What Conservation Is: A Contemporary Inquiry
Rogelio Luque-Lora
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Rogelio Luque-Lora
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
UK
Recent debates regarding conservation's proper objectives have been underlain by the more fundamental question of what conservation is and what it is not. In this essay, I elaborate and justify the following definition: the promotion (or the intended promotion) of the continued existence of valuable things in the living world in extended human time. I then use this definition to ask whether two recent proposals, so-called new conservation and compassionate conservation, are truly conservation. In asking these questions, I explore how conservation relates to ecological change and to the welfare of nonhuman animals. I end by situating conservation within the broader array of societal relations with the living world.
How to cite this article:
Luque-Lora R. What Conservation Is: A Contemporary Inquiry.Conservat Soc 2023;21:73-82
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Luque-Lora R. What Conservation Is: A Contemporary Inquiry. Conservat Soc [serial online] 2023 [cited 2023 Jun 9 ];21:73-82
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