Conservation publications and their provisions to protect research participants.

ABSTRACT: Social science methods are increasingly applied in conservation research. However, the conservation sector has received criticism for inadequate ethical rigor when research involves people, particularly when investigating socially sensitive or illegal behaviors. We conducted a systematic review to investigate conservation journals' ethical policies when research involves human participants, and to assess the types of ethical safeguards documented in conservation articles. We restricted our review to articles that used social science methods to gather data from local people about a potentially sensitive behavior: hunting. Searches were conducted in the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for research articles in English published from January 2000 to May 2018. Only studies conducted

SUBMITTER: Ibbett H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7028057 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature