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Papers by Kate Rawles
Global bioethics, 2003
Conservation and Animal Welfare The increasing impact of humans on the earth might be expected to... more Conservation and Animal Welfare The increasing impact of humans on the earth might be expected to unite campaigners on behalf of animals and the environment. This is not always the case. There's more than a difference between animal welfare and conservation movements: identifying and understanding these differences will be an important factor in attempting to reconcile these two groups of people. Such reconciliation is worth aiming for, since the human threat is in many ways a real one, and animal and environmental campaigners would be better off allied than divided.
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Mar 31, 2020
Journal of Medical Ethics, 1990
The arguments used by Gavin Mooney in his scornful response to Castigating QALYs, (1,2) are exami... more The arguments used by Gavin Mooney in his scornful response to Castigating QALYs, (1,2) are examined. In spite ofthe rhetoric there is a broad measure ofagreement about the deficiencies ofQALYs as a means ofdistributing scarce resources. The main area ofconflict is that John Rawles favours campaigningfor more resources while Gavin Mooney, constrained by his remit as a health economist, favours acceptance ofthe present level of funding and better methods ofdistributing resources.
Routledge eBooks, Oct 31, 2022
In 2017/18 Kate Rawles aka @CarbonCycleKate rode the length of South America on ‘Woody’ a bicycle... more In 2017/18 Kate Rawles aka @CarbonCycleKate rode the length of South America on ‘Woody’ a bicycle made of bamboo that she built herself at the London-based Bamboo Bicycle Club from bamboo grown at Cornwall’s Eden Project. From Colombia to Cape Horn, (or as close as you can get to it on a bike), Kate and Woody – the UK’s first ‘home-grown bicycle’ - travelled for 8288 miles following the spine of the Andes through an astonishing variety of landscapes and ecosystems, from Pacific ocean to high Andes paramo; from cloud and rainforests to Bolivian salt flats and the Atacama desert. The aim was to explore biodiversity: what it is, what’s happening to it, why that matters and, above all, what can and is being done to protect it – and then to use the adventure story to help raise awareness and inspire action on this hugely important but relatively neglected environmental challenge. En route, Kate, who rode most of the journey solo, visited a wide range of projects and met some truly inspir...
Examples of best practice for promoting inclusion of all young people in real learning opportunit... more Examples of best practice for promoting inclusion of all young people in real learning opportunities in school grounds and outdoor environmental centres. This chapter argues that all young people need access to nature and that this would have a beneficial effect on society and its environmental values. An innovative educational proposal to reconnect young people with the natural world was unveiled by the UK Sustainable Development Commission as a potential “Breakthrough for the 21st Century” in June 2009. This was one of 19 best ideas, selected from 300, to really inspire and motivate policy makers and others to catalyse change and accelerate the pace of progress on sustainable development over the next 3 to 5 years. Promoting outdoor experiences in school curricula to support changes in society’s values were selected by SDC as one of the 19 best ideas which could transform the UK into a sustainable society. The SDC’s Breakthroughs project set out to identify the ideas with the most...
Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory, 2013
This chapter examines outdoor adventure from the perspective of climate change and the need to ta... more This chapter examines outdoor adventure from the perspective of climate change and the need to tackle it. I’ll argue that climate change raises some really difficult questions for all modern societies in which adventure is valued, and for any of us who are citizens of these societies. This is especially so in relation to adventures that involve long-distance flying. The good news is that there are many opportunities to reduce carbon footprints while still adventuring, and many ‘win-wins’ – although leadership and guidance are urgently needed in this area. Perhaps even more importantly, I’ll argue that adventures have, potentially, an extremely positive role to play in contemporary society. Adventures can give us opportunities to question and change some of the most problematic features of our ‘normal’ Western lives. In exploring these issues, I will not focus on any one author or set of concepts, as has been the case with the previous chapters in this book. Instead, at appropriate points in the chapter, I will identify the relevance of the theories that have been discussed by authors of other chapters, and indicate where else in this book you can find more information on each of these
It’s a wild and beautiful day and you are walking in the hills – the Glyders, say – with a group ... more It’s a wild and beautiful day and you are walking in the hills – the Glyders, say – with a group of young people. Tryfan, Glyder Fawr, Glyder Fach; a horseshoe of craggy summits coming in and out of the clouds. Birds fly up, chattering and scolding as you pass. There’s a raven crarking over the sound of the river and, underfoot, mats of purple thyme amongst the rocks. The group is moving well and spirits are high. Just ahead of them, you pull over a small rise and there, spreading out in front of you... is a dirty great pile of litter. How would you respond? I’d bet a month’s salary and a bottle of Laphroaig that 99% of people reading this would stop and pick it up. You’d almost certainly engage the group in the task, and use the incident to open up a discussion about outdoor ethics. Litter is obvious; packing or not packing out poo considerably less so. Then there’s shutting gates, thinking how to minimise footpath erosion, and all those questions about where and how to camp. As ou...
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1997
Vocalizations carry emotional, physiological and individual information. This suggests that they ... more Vocalizations carry emotional, physiological and individual information. This suggests that they may serve as potentially useful indicators for inferring animal welfare. At the same time, automated methods for analysing and classifying sound have developed rapidly, particularly in the fields of ecology, conservation and sound scene classification. These methods are already used to automatically classify animal vocalizations, for example, in identifying animal species and estimating numbers of individuals. Despite this potential, they have not yet found widespread application in animal welfare monitoring. In this review, we first discuss current trends in sound analysis for ecology, conservation and sound classification. Following this, we detail the vocalizations produced by three of the most important farm livestock species: chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus), pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) and cattle (Bos taurus). Finally, we describe how these methods can be applied to monitor animal welfare with new potential for developing automated methods for large-scale farming.
Acknowledgements The authors of the accompanying report have benefited greatly from ideas volunta... more Acknowledgements The authors of the accompanying report have benefited greatly from ideas voluntarily and involuntarily afforded us by our colleaguesto all of whom we are most grateful. We are grateful, too, for the valuable critical comments on two earlier drafts assembled and forwarded to us by Emyr Thomas of CCW, who has guided our efforts with such patience and tact. In addition, we wish to thank Baird Callicott, Holmes Rolston III and Dale Jamieson, who most generously provided us with copies of their work which otherwise would have been inaccessible.
This article discusses an overview of the integration of animal welfare, human welfare and enviro... more This article discusses an overview of the integration of animal welfare, human welfare and environmental issues in draught animals. The effect of sustainable development and animal welfare, and the impact of local environment, global environment and global climate change on working equines are also presented.
Radioactivity in the Environment, 2013
Abstract Radioactive waste management and disposal raises complex and multilayered ethical issues... more Abstract Radioactive waste management and disposal raises complex and multilayered ethical issues, and achieving ethical acceptability is not the same as achieving public acceptance. The inevitable ethical and evaluative judgments must be explicit, and opened to fully inclusive reasoned debate at every stage. If the compensation of host communities is to be distinguished from bribery, three conditions are required. First, potential sites must be selected according to robust and transparent criteria, which make sense independently of the compensation offer. Secondly, future generations and others unable to directly participate must be adequately represented in deliberative processes: in this regard, significant additional issues arise if the establishment of a disposal facility legitimizes production of additional radioactive waste. Thirdly, compensation must be negotiated and offered by a trusted body independent of the nuclear industry. Utilitarian calculative approaches to compensation based on cost-benefit analysis fail for several reasons including value incommensurability and the “crowding out” of intrinsic motivations.
Global bioethics, 2003
Conservation and Animal Welfare The increasing impact of humans on the earth might be expected to... more Conservation and Animal Welfare The increasing impact of humans on the earth might be expected to unite campaigners on behalf of animals and the environment. This is not always the case. There's more than a difference between animal welfare and conservation movements: identifying and understanding these differences will be an important factor in attempting to reconcile these two groups of people. Such reconciliation is worth aiming for, since the human threat is in many ways a real one, and animal and environmental campaigners would be better off allied than divided.
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Mar 31, 2020
Journal of Medical Ethics, 1990
The arguments used by Gavin Mooney in his scornful response to Castigating QALYs, (1,2) are exami... more The arguments used by Gavin Mooney in his scornful response to Castigating QALYs, (1,2) are examined. In spite ofthe rhetoric there is a broad measure ofagreement about the deficiencies ofQALYs as a means ofdistributing scarce resources. The main area ofconflict is that John Rawles favours campaigningfor more resources while Gavin Mooney, constrained by his remit as a health economist, favours acceptance ofthe present level of funding and better methods ofdistributing resources.
Routledge eBooks, Oct 31, 2022
In 2017/18 Kate Rawles aka @CarbonCycleKate rode the length of South America on ‘Woody’ a bicycle... more In 2017/18 Kate Rawles aka @CarbonCycleKate rode the length of South America on ‘Woody’ a bicycle made of bamboo that she built herself at the London-based Bamboo Bicycle Club from bamboo grown at Cornwall’s Eden Project. From Colombia to Cape Horn, (or as close as you can get to it on a bike), Kate and Woody – the UK’s first ‘home-grown bicycle’ - travelled for 8288 miles following the spine of the Andes through an astonishing variety of landscapes and ecosystems, from Pacific ocean to high Andes paramo; from cloud and rainforests to Bolivian salt flats and the Atacama desert. The aim was to explore biodiversity: what it is, what’s happening to it, why that matters and, above all, what can and is being done to protect it – and then to use the adventure story to help raise awareness and inspire action on this hugely important but relatively neglected environmental challenge. En route, Kate, who rode most of the journey solo, visited a wide range of projects and met some truly inspir...
Examples of best practice for promoting inclusion of all young people in real learning opportunit... more Examples of best practice for promoting inclusion of all young people in real learning opportunities in school grounds and outdoor environmental centres. This chapter argues that all young people need access to nature and that this would have a beneficial effect on society and its environmental values. An innovative educational proposal to reconnect young people with the natural world was unveiled by the UK Sustainable Development Commission as a potential “Breakthrough for the 21st Century” in June 2009. This was one of 19 best ideas, selected from 300, to really inspire and motivate policy makers and others to catalyse change and accelerate the pace of progress on sustainable development over the next 3 to 5 years. Promoting outdoor experiences in school curricula to support changes in society’s values were selected by SDC as one of the 19 best ideas which could transform the UK into a sustainable society. The SDC’s Breakthroughs project set out to identify the ideas with the most...
Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory, 2013
This chapter examines outdoor adventure from the perspective of climate change and the need to ta... more This chapter examines outdoor adventure from the perspective of climate change and the need to tackle it. I’ll argue that climate change raises some really difficult questions for all modern societies in which adventure is valued, and for any of us who are citizens of these societies. This is especially so in relation to adventures that involve long-distance flying. The good news is that there are many opportunities to reduce carbon footprints while still adventuring, and many ‘win-wins’ – although leadership and guidance are urgently needed in this area. Perhaps even more importantly, I’ll argue that adventures have, potentially, an extremely positive role to play in contemporary society. Adventures can give us opportunities to question and change some of the most problematic features of our ‘normal’ Western lives. In exploring these issues, I will not focus on any one author or set of concepts, as has been the case with the previous chapters in this book. Instead, at appropriate points in the chapter, I will identify the relevance of the theories that have been discussed by authors of other chapters, and indicate where else in this book you can find more information on each of these
It’s a wild and beautiful day and you are walking in the hills – the Glyders, say – with a group ... more It’s a wild and beautiful day and you are walking in the hills – the Glyders, say – with a group of young people. Tryfan, Glyder Fawr, Glyder Fach; a horseshoe of craggy summits coming in and out of the clouds. Birds fly up, chattering and scolding as you pass. There’s a raven crarking over the sound of the river and, underfoot, mats of purple thyme amongst the rocks. The group is moving well and spirits are high. Just ahead of them, you pull over a small rise and there, spreading out in front of you... is a dirty great pile of litter. How would you respond? I’d bet a month’s salary and a bottle of Laphroaig that 99% of people reading this would stop and pick it up. You’d almost certainly engage the group in the task, and use the incident to open up a discussion about outdoor ethics. Litter is obvious; packing or not packing out poo considerably less so. Then there’s shutting gates, thinking how to minimise footpath erosion, and all those questions about where and how to camp. As ou...
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1997
Vocalizations carry emotional, physiological and individual information. This suggests that they ... more Vocalizations carry emotional, physiological and individual information. This suggests that they may serve as potentially useful indicators for inferring animal welfare. At the same time, automated methods for analysing and classifying sound have developed rapidly, particularly in the fields of ecology, conservation and sound scene classification. These methods are already used to automatically classify animal vocalizations, for example, in identifying animal species and estimating numbers of individuals. Despite this potential, they have not yet found widespread application in animal welfare monitoring. In this review, we first discuss current trends in sound analysis for ecology, conservation and sound classification. Following this, we detail the vocalizations produced by three of the most important farm livestock species: chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus), pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) and cattle (Bos taurus). Finally, we describe how these methods can be applied to monitor animal welfare with new potential for developing automated methods for large-scale farming.
Acknowledgements The authors of the accompanying report have benefited greatly from ideas volunta... more Acknowledgements The authors of the accompanying report have benefited greatly from ideas voluntarily and involuntarily afforded us by our colleaguesto all of whom we are most grateful. We are grateful, too, for the valuable critical comments on two earlier drafts assembled and forwarded to us by Emyr Thomas of CCW, who has guided our efforts with such patience and tact. In addition, we wish to thank Baird Callicott, Holmes Rolston III and Dale Jamieson, who most generously provided us with copies of their work which otherwise would have been inaccessible.
This article discusses an overview of the integration of animal welfare, human welfare and enviro... more This article discusses an overview of the integration of animal welfare, human welfare and environmental issues in draught animals. The effect of sustainable development and animal welfare, and the impact of local environment, global environment and global climate change on working equines are also presented.
Radioactivity in the Environment, 2013
Abstract Radioactive waste management and disposal raises complex and multilayered ethical issues... more Abstract Radioactive waste management and disposal raises complex and multilayered ethical issues, and achieving ethical acceptability is not the same as achieving public acceptance. The inevitable ethical and evaluative judgments must be explicit, and opened to fully inclusive reasoned debate at every stage. If the compensation of host communities is to be distinguished from bribery, three conditions are required. First, potential sites must be selected according to robust and transparent criteria, which make sense independently of the compensation offer. Secondly, future generations and others unable to directly participate must be adequately represented in deliberative processes: in this regard, significant additional issues arise if the establishment of a disposal facility legitimizes production of additional radioactive waste. Thirdly, compensation must be negotiated and offered by a trusted body independent of the nuclear industry. Utilitarian calculative approaches to compensation based on cost-benefit analysis fail for several reasons including value incommensurability and the “crowding out” of intrinsic motivations.