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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
| Series: | The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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