Excluded but not forgotten: Veterinary emergency care during emergencies and disasters

Martin, Niels D.; Pascual, José L.; Hirsch, Julie; Holena, Daniel N.; Kaplan, Lewis J.

doi:10.5055/ajdm.2020.0352

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“…Acknowledging our 'solidarity' with animals during a disaster can serve as an effective and equitable basis for mitigating harm to all affected parties. Where animals are more directly tied to peoples' livelihoods (and thus, cannot be easily replaced), early disaster interventions for animals need to reduce disaster damage (e.g., animal suffering, mortality, morbidity, displacement, asset damage) and indirect losses, in order to promote overall economic recovery and owners', producers' and communities' and veterinary professionals' psychological and social well-being (Campbell and Knowles 2011;FAO 2020;Knowles and Campbell 2014;Martin et al 2020;Rollin 2011). 17 The authors are grateful to Bernice Bovenkerk for this addition and link: https://www.verzekera ars.nl/media/5048/20180705-actieplan-brandveilige-veestallen-definitief.pdf.…”

Section: Animal Disaster Ethics: Revealing Animal Vulnerabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reimagining Human Responsibility Towards Animals for Disaster Management in the Anthropocene

Vieira¹,

Anthony

2021

The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

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Animals, like human beings, are prone to suffering harms, such as disease, injury and death, as a result of anthropogenic and natural disasters. Animals are disproportionately prone to risk and adversely affected by disasters, and thus require humane and respectful care when disasters strike, due to socially situated vulnerabilities based on how human communities assess and value their moral standing and function. The inability to integrate animals into disaster risk and management practices and processes can sometimes be associated with a lack of understanding about what animal ethics and animal health and welfare require when designing disaster management programs. This chapter seeks to reimagine human responsibility towards animals for disaster management. The pervasiveness of disasters and their impacts on animals, human-animal and animal-environment relationships underscore the importance of effective animal disaster management supported by sound ethical decision-making processes. To this end, we delineate six ethically responsible animal caretaking aims for consideration when developing disaster management plans and policies. These aims, which address central vulnerabilities experienced by domesticated animals during disasters, are meant to be action-guiding within the disaster management context. They include: (1) Save lives and mitigate harm; (2) Protect animal welfare and respect animals’ experiences; (3) Observe, recognize and promote distributive justice; (4) Advance public involvement; (5) Empower caregivers, guardians, owners and community members; (6) Bolster public health and veterinary community professionalism, including engagement in multidisciplinary teams and applied scientific developments. To bring about these aims, we offer a set of practical and straightforward action steps for animal caregivers and disaster management teams to ensure that animals’ interests are systematically promoted in disaster management. They include: (1) Respect and humane treatment; (2) Collaboration and effective disaster communication; (3) Strengthening systems of information sharing, surveillance, scientific research, management and training; (4) Community outreach and proactive contact; (5) Cultural sensitivity and attitudes check, and (6) Reflection, review and reform.

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Section: Animal Disaster Ethics: Revealing Animal Vulnerabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%