Dr. Ricardo Rozzi

Ricardo Rozzi is a Chilean ecologist and philosopher. He is professor at the University of Magallanes in Chile and at the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas in the USA. Based in these institutions, he is the director of the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program (USA and Chile). His academic work focuses on the links between human welfare and the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. To achieve this, he has combined theoretical and applied work. In terms of theoretical work, he has worked on three interrelated concepts: biocultural homogenization, biocultural conservation, and biocultural ethics. The latter proposes a “3Hs” conceptual framework to value the vital links among specific life habits and habitats where they take place embedded in communities of human and other-than-human co-in-habitants. Regarding applied work, Dr. Rozzi has led the creation of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park (Puerto Williams, Chile, 2000), the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve (5 mill. hectares, 2005), and the Diego Ramirez Islands-Drake Passage Marine Park (15 million hectares, 2019). Working with various organizations to incorporate environmental ethics into conservation practices and education, he created the field environmental philosophy methodological approach. In turn, this has led to the creation of biocultural conservation activities such as ecotourism with a hand lens. Currently, Dr. Rozzi leads the establishment of the Cape Horn International Center for biocultural research, education, and conservation in Puerto Williams, the capital city of the Chilean Antarctic Province.

For selected awards and honors see here.

RCC Research Project: Biocultural Ethics and Conservation for Sustainable and Just Futures

Selected Publications: 

• "Taxonomic Chauvinism, no More! Antidotes from Hume, Darwin, and Biocultural Ethics." Environmental Ethics 41, no. 3 (2019): 253–288.
• with Roy H. May Jr., F. Stuart Chapin III, Francisca Massardo, Michael C. Gavin, Irene J. Klaver, Aníbal Pauchard, Martin A. Núñez, and Daniel Simberloff, eds. From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation. Vol. 3 of Ecology and Ethics, edited by Ricardo Rozzi. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018.
• with F. Stuart Chapin III, J. Baird Callicott, S. T. A. Pickett, M. Power, J. J. Armesto, and Roy H. May Jr., eds. Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Praxis. Vol 2. of Ecology and Ethics, edited by Ricardo Rozzi. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015.
• with S. T. A. Pickett, C. Palmer, J.J. Armesto, and J. Baird Callicott, eds. Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World. Values, Philosophy, and Action. Vol 1. of Ecology and Ethics, edited by Ricardo Rozzi. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013.
• with J. J. Armesto, J. Gutiérrez, F. Massardo, G. Likens, C. B. Anderson, A. Poole , K. Moses, G. Hargrove, A. Mansilla, J. H. Kennedy, M. Willson, K. Jax, C. Jones, J. Baird Callicott, and M. T. Kalin. "Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas." BioScience 62, no. 3 (2012): 226–236.
• with R. F. Massardo, C. Anderson, K. Heidinger, and J. Silander Jr. Ten Principles for biocultural conservation at the southern tip of the Americas: The approach of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park. Ecology and Society 11, no. 1 (2006): 43. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art43/.