Wednesday, 3 April 2013 @ 18:30 – 21:00
Center for Urban Resilience
Loyola Marymount University
1 Loyola Marymount University Drive,
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Outdoor cats and their impact on native wildlife is one of the most controversial issues in animal welfare and conservation today. It is a wicked public policy problem made worse by the unarticulated moral values of stakeholders and a fixation on the efficacy of TNR (trap, neuter and return). This has obstructed the emergence of good public policy and management practices for over a decade. By revealing the moral norms that lay at the heart of the matter, ethics is indispensable to understanding the issue and framing future policy responses.