Conservation or the Moral High Ground: Siding with Bentham or Kant

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 307-308

  Macdonald, David W ^a   Johnson, Paul J ^a   Loveridge, Andrew J ^a   Burnham, Dawn ^a   Dickman, Amy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cecil the lion; emotion; ethics; trophy hunting; utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964701608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12254     Document Type: Note

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