What's So Good About Biodiversity? A Call for Better Reasoning About Nature's Value /

What's So Good About Biodiversity? A Call for Better Reasoning About Nature's Value /

This book is unique in its treatment of biodiversity, which has come to be an emblem of what is worthy of protection and fostering in the natural world. It undertakes a comprehensive, detailed, and careful philosophical analysis of the many reasons that scientists, economists, philosophers, and othe...

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Author / Creator: Maier, Donald S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Imprint: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Series:The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 19
Subjects:
Ethics.
Environment.
Biodiversity.
Philosophy of nature.
Business.
Management science.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Environmental Sciences.
Philosophy of Nature.
Business and Management.
Online Access:Available in Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks 2012 English/International.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Prologue
  • 2 Preliminaries
  • 3 What biodiversity is
  • 4 What biodiversity is not
  • 5 The calculus of biodiversity value
  • 6 Theories of biodiversity value
  • 7 Some inconvenient implications
  • 8 Natural value starting from people
  • 9 Figures
  • 10 Glossary of Scientific, Computational, Economic, and Philosophical Terms
  • 11 Acknowledgments
  • 12 References
  • 13 Index.

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