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Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport
Get PDFBackground: Motoring is an emancipation. It is both an individual freedom and a collective freedom with car ownership at 30, 491, 000 vehicles by 2019 in Great Britain. Yet, as the evidence of the impacts of road transport accumulates and the health and environmental aims of sustainable travel become clearer, demand for an ethical analysis also intensifies. Purpose: The paper draws on a previous limited ethics-based literature on road transport. Key tenet of liberalism, of ‘freedom from’ as well as ‘freedom to’, are highlighted. This includes Edmund Burke's concept of ‘equality of restraint’ in meeting common needs. Freedom from fear of road traffic danger forms part of an individual's rights. Findings: Equality of rights and freedom from fear in road use have not been key considerations for reducing risks to vulnerable road users. Indeed, ethical issues have largely been ignored. The emergence of Vision Zero within the road safety field with its focus on zero deaths and serious injuries has brought an ethics-based approach to the mainstream although it appears to be struggling to gain traction in neo-liberal societies. Conclusions: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to UK governments promoting the use of walking and cycling. These modes have hitherto been left to fend for themselves in an environment where road safety has been measured by casualty reduction while fear has suppressed walking and cycling with the consequence losses to physical and mental health. We ask whether an ethics-based contribution, and lessons from Covid-19, can help re-set the direction of UK road safety policy and practice
Two new species of Garreta Janssens, 1940 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Southern Africa
No full textDavis, Adrian L.V., Deschodt, Christian M. (2018): Two new species of Garreta Janssens, 1940 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Southern Africa. Zootaxa 4450 (2): 242-248, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.
Defining new dung beetle tribes to resolve discrepancies between phylogeny and tribal classification in the subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
No full textDavis, Adrian L.V., Deschodt, Christian M., Scholtz, Clarke H. (2019): Defining new dung beetle tribes to resolve discrepancies between phylogeny and tribal classification in the subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Zootaxa 4608 (1): 131-144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.1.
The endemic Southern African genus Epirinus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) revisited: five new species and two new synonyms
No full textDeschodt, Christian M., Davis, Adrian L.V., Daniel, Gimo M. (2019): The endemic Southern African genus Epirinus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) revisited: five new species and two new synonyms. Zootaxa 4603 (2): 327-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.
FIGURE 4 in New southern African species and a revalidation in the dung beetle genus Gyronotus van Lansberge, 1874 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with an updated key
No full textFIGURE 4. Map showing the generic distribution of Gyronotus van Lansberge, 1874 comprising three tropical species and nine southern African species (see Fig. 3).Published as part of Deschodt, Christian M. & Davis, Adrian L.V., 2019, New southern African species and a revalidation in the dung beetle genus Gyronotus van Lansberge, 1874 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with an updated key, pp. 275-282 in Zootaxa 4624 (2) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/325922
Dicranocara vandersmisseni Moretto 2007
No full textDicranocara vandersmisseni Moretto, 2016. Only recordednear Ai-Ais [27.920°S 17.489°E] in the Fish River Canyon, Namibia.Published as part of Deschodt, Christian M. & Davis, Adrian L. V., 2017, Transfer of three species of Namakwanus Scholtz & Howden to Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz or to Namaphilus gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 109-114 in Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 7 (7) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556291
Byrrhidium ovale Harold 1869
No full textByrrhidium ovale Harold, 1869. Collected in the Richtersveld National Park [28.113°S 16.934°E] in association with rock hyraxes.Published as part of Deschodt, Christian M. & Davis, Adrian L. V., 2017, Transfer of three species of Namakwanus Scholtz & Howden to Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz or to Namaphilus gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 109-114 in Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 7 (7) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556291
Woody plant communities of southern South Africa and new distribution records for the rare dung beetle species Sarophorus punctatus Frolov & Scholtz, 2003 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
No full textStrümpher, Werner P., Daniel, Gimo M., Davis, Adrian L.V. (2022): Woody plant communities of southern South Africa and new distribution records for the rare dung beetle species Sarophorus punctatus Frolov & Scholtz, 2003 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Zootaxa 5188 (4): 396-400, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.4.
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