Why Preserve Natural Variety? / / Bryan G. Norton.
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, an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| 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 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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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