Thesis: Ethics chapter

[kaedonkers]

There is a missing chapter from my thesis plan. I am interested in, but have not considered researching, the ethical implications of planting trees on farmland and how to do this equitably. This, I hope, will make my PhD interdisciplinary.

Motivation

• Farmers are a community I care about
• Food security is a concern I care about
• I have seen how my data science and computing skills can help farmers, which motivates me
• Ensuring that I don't do this unethically is important, because it jeopardises the benefit I think I am bringing

Considerations:

• How to encourage tree planting without pushing farmers off the land/corporate take over?
• What are the ethics of public payments for land use?
• What are the ethical/philosophical considerations of carbon sequestration?
• What are the ethics of using data and uncertainty quantification for land-use decisions?

TODO:

• [ ] Find ethics/social science supervisor/advisor who knows the ethics of land use
• [ ]

[kaedonkers]

GoogleScholar::ethics+agroforestry

• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jsfa.2897
• https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/7/2246
• https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/7/699
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016920460100158X
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10457-017-0139-9
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-019-0555-5
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13750-022-00260-4
• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-0681-0_12
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204621000074

[kaedonkers]

People:

• Tom Powell -> Geography
• Catriona McKinnon -> Politics
• Angela Cassidy -> CRPR
• Steven Emery -> CRPR
• Matt Lobley -> CRPR