Why Preserve Natural Variety? / / Bryan G. Norton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Norton, Bryan G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy ; 884
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

A valuable and unique contribution both to environmental ethics and public policy analysis of the preservation of species question. Norton provides a critical overview of the range of thought on the issue, presents a new and comprehensive rationale for preservation of both species and ecosystems, and addresses policy issues.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ONE. A Rationale for Preserving Species: An Apology and a Taxonomy -- Part A. Demand Values and Species Preservation -- Two. Demand Values and Economic Analysis -- THREE. The Value of Ecosystems and the Value of Species -- FOUR. Diversity, Stability, and Autogenic Systems -- FIVE. Amenity Values -- Six. A Parting Look at Demand Values -- Part B. Intrinsic Value and Species Preservation -- SEVEN. Anthropocentrism -- EIGHT. Nonanthropocentrism I: Intrinsic Value and Individuals -- NINE. Nonanthropocentrism II: Species and Ecosystems -- Part C. Transformative Values and Species Preservation -- TEN. Transformative Values -- ELEVEN. A Coherent Rationale for Species Preservation -- Part D. Triage: The Priority Issue -- TWELVE. Formal and Substantive Priority Systems -- THIRTEEN. Avoiding Triage: An Alternative Approach to the Priorities Problem -- INDEX