Integrating ecological sciences and environmental ethics into biocultural conservation in South American temperate sub-Antarctic ecosystems

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-234

  Rozzi, Ricardo ^a   Armesto, Juan J ^b   Frodeman, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

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EID: 57749184374     PISSN: 01634275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics200830329     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

1. The field course and workshop were held at Senda Darwin Biological Station, University of Magallanes, and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), and included a navigation through the sub-Antarctic archipelagos. See http://www.phil.unt.edu/chile/research/workshop2007/workshop.html.
2. Regarding the collaboration of UNT philosophers with U.S, and Chilean ecologists developing a transdisciplinary approach to integrating ecological sciences and environmental philosophy, see Max Oelschlaeger and Ricardo Rozzi, "El Nudo Gordiano Interdisciplinario: Un Desafío para la Sustentabilidad," Ambiente y Desarrollo 14, no. 3 (1998): 71-81;
3. Ricardo Rozzi, Eugene Hargrove, Juan J. Armesto, Steward T. A. Pickett, and John Silander, Jr., "Natural drift" as a Post-Modern Metaphor," Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 71 (1998): 9-21. The abstracts of the papers presented at the two symposia are available at: http://eco.confex.com/eco/2007/techprogram/S1199.HTM (2007), and http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S2755.htm (2008).
4. See Laura Nahuelhual, Pablo Donoso, Antonio Lara, Daisy Nuñez, Carlos Oyarzun, and Eduardo Neira, "Valuing Ecosystem Services of Chilean Temperate Rain Forests," Environment, Development and Sustainability 9 (2007): 481-99.
5. For definitions of frontier forests, and their world distribution, see Dirk Bryant, Daniel Nielsen, and Laura Tangley, The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge (Washington D.C.: World Resources Institute, 1997).
6. For a critical assessment of the term, see John L. Innes and Kennteh B. Er, "Questionable Utility of the Frontier Forest Concept," BioScience 52 (2002): 1095-109.
7. In the Americas, temperate regions represent the primary places of colonization by European immigrants, involving the most intensive exploitation of natural resources and land-use changes during the industrial age. Consequently, these are the most threatened forest biomes. This situation highlights the significance of the frontier temperate sub-Antarctic forests of South America. See John Silander, Jr., "Temperate Forests: Plant Species Biodiversity and Conservation," in S. A. Levin, ed., Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (New York: Academic Press, 2000), pp. 607-26.
8. See Russell Mittermeier, Christine Mittermeier, Thomas M. Brooks, John D. Pilgrim, William R. Konstant, Gustavo A. da Fonseca, and Cyril Kormos, "Wilderness and Biodiversity," Proceedings of the Natioinal Academy of Science of the United States 100(2003): 10309-13.
9. For biodiversity and conservation of South American temperate forests, see Juan J. Armesto, Ricardo Rozzi, Cecilia Smith-Ramírez, and Mary Kalin-Arroyo, "Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests," Science 282 (1998): 1271-72.
10. For the sub-Antarctic Magellanic ecosystems, see Ricardo Rozzi, Juan J. Armesto, Bernard Goffinet, William Buck, Francisca Massardo, John Silander, Jr., Mary Kalin-Arroyo, Shaun Russell, Christopher B. Anderson, Lohengrin Cavieres, and J. Baird Callicott, "Changing Biodiversity Conservation Lenses: Insights from the Sub-Antarctic Non-Vascular Flora of Southern South America," Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6 (2007): 131-37.
11. This volume will be complemented by a set of essays to be published in a Chilean ecological journal, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, including papers presented at the March 2007 workshop, and in a subsequent workshop in June 2008 (see http://www.chile.unt.edu/ltser/index.htm).
12. See also Robert Frodeman, "The Policy Turn in Environmental Ethics," Environmental Ethics 28 (2006): 3-20.
13. Biosphere reserves include a gradient of human influence arranged in three concentric zones: strictly protected core zones at the center, surrounded by buffer zones admitting low impact human activities, which are in turn surrounded by transition zones where more intensive development can take place. See fig. 3a in Guevara and Laborde, "The Landscape Approach," p. 261, in this issue.