RT Article
T1 A criminology of extinction: biodiversity, extreme consumption and the vanity of species resurrection
JF European journal of criminology
VO 17
IS 6
SP 918
OP 935
A1 Brisman, Avi
A2 South, Nigel 1954-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1745629351
AB This article explores an issue pertaining to the commodification of nature and related market processes - reviving extinct species. It begins by offering an overview of the aesthetic, economic, scientific and ethical reasons to preserve biological diversity. The article then considers how and why biological diversity is actually being reduced at an unprecedented rate - the ways in which, and the explanations for why, human acts and omissions are directly and indirectly, separately and synergistically, causing extinctions, quite possibly of species that we do not even know exist. From here, the article draws on the growing body of research on resurrecting species - a process known as de-extinction - to contemplate the questions raised about the permanency of extinction, as well as whether we should revive extinct species and the meaning and criminological implications of doing so.
K1 Biodiversity/biological diversity
K1 Consumption
K1 De-extinction
K1 Extinction
K1 Hunting/poaching
K1 Wildlife (crime, trade, trafficking)
DO 10.1177/1477370819828307