Biodiversity and environmental philosophy an introduction
This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasising the conservation of biodiversity. Sahota Sarkar criticises attempts to attribute intrinsic value to nature and defends an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation based...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2005.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42013410*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A focus on biodiversity
- The structure of the book
- Three flawed arguments
- Concern for the environment
- The myth of lost futures
- The myth of the golden age
- Wilderness
- Intrinsic values and biocentrism
- Adequacy conditions for a conservationist ethic
- Two concepts of intrinsic value
- Arguments for intrinsic value
- Biocentrism and deep ecology
- Animal welfare
- Tempered anthropocentrism
- Demand values
- Transformative values
- Obligations of conservation
- Wilderness and aesthetic appreciation
- The boundary problem
- The directionality problem
- Solutions
- Adequacy tests
- Problems of ecology
- Ecological models
- New directions
- Extinction
- The consensus view of conservation biology
- Adaptive management
- The place prioritization problem
- The surrogacy problem
- The viability problem
- Defining "biodiversity"
- Incommensurability and uncertainty
- Types of values
- Multiple criterion synchronization
- The context of biodiversity
- Coping with uncertainty
- Probabilistic place prioritization
- A bayesian future?
- In conclusion: issues for the future
- The value of biodiversity
- The science of biodiversity conservation.
