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Brittain S, Ibbett H, de Lange E, Dorward L, Hoyte S, Marino A, Milner-Gulland EJ, Newth J, Rakotonarivo S, Verissimo D & Lewis J (2020) Ethical considerations when conservation research involves people. Conservation Biology, 34 (4), pp. 925-933. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13464
Abstract
Social science is becoming increasingly important in conservation, with more studies involving methodologies that collect data from and about people. Conservation science is a normative and applied discipline designed to support and inform management and practice. Poor research practice risks harming participants, researchers, and can leave negative legacies. Often, those at the forefront of field‐based research are early‐career researchers, many of whom enter their first research experience ill‐prepared for the ethical conundrums they may face. Here, we draw on our own experiences as early‐career researchers to illuminate how ethical challenges arise during conservation research that involves human participants. Specifically, we discuss ethical review procedures, conflicts of values, and power relations, and provide broad recommendations on how to navigate ethical challenges when they arise during research. We encourage greater engagement with ethical review processes and highlight the pressing need to develop ethical guidelines for conservation research that involves human participants.
Keywords
institutional review boards; power dynamics; values; legacy; social science; reflexivity; fieldwork
Journal
Conservation Biology: Volume 34, Issue 4
Status | Published |
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Funders | European Commission (Horizon 2020) |
Publication date | 31/08/2020 |
Publication date online | 18/01/2020 |
Date accepted by journal | 24/12/2019 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30759 |
ISSN | 0888-8892 |
eISSN | 1523-1739 |
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