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The Value of Species

2012-04-24 Science
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Release : 2012-04-24
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Book Synopsis The Value of Species by : Edward L. McCord

Download or read book The Value of Species written by Edward L. McCord. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from philosophy, ethics, law and biology, a naturalist and philosopher advocates on behalf of biodiversity, addressing urgent questions about the destruction of species, and provides a new framework for appreciating and defending every form of life.

The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species

2016-01-08 Philosophy
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Release : 2016-01-08
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species by : Ian A. Smith

Download or read book The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species written by Ian A. Smith. This book was released on 2016-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species’ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish—its organisms continuing to reproduce successfully and it avoiding extinction—which helps to demonstrate a further claim, that humans ought to preserve species that we have endangered. He shows our need to exercise humility in our relations with endangered species through the preservation of their intrinsic goods, which in turn rectifies our degradation of their importance. Unique in its appeal to virtue ethics and to species concepts, The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species is an important resource for scholars working in environmental ethics and the philosophy of biology.

The Ethics of Species

2012-09-20 Philosophy
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Release : 2012-09-20
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Ethics of Species by : Ronald L. Sandler

Download or read book The Ethics of Species written by Ronald L. Sandler. This book was released on 2012-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are causing species to go extinct at extraordinary rates, altering existing species in unprecedented ways and creating entirely new species. More than ever before, we require an ethic of species to guide our interactions with them. In this book, Ronald L. Sandler examines the value of species and the ethical significance of species boundaries and discusses what these mean for species preservation in the light of global climate change, species engineering and human enhancement. He argues that species possess several varieties of value, but they are not sacred. It is sometimes permissible to alter species, let them go extinct (even when we are a cause of the extinction) and invent new ones. Philosophically rigorous, accessible and illustrated with examples drawn from contemporary science, this book will be of interest to students of philosophy, bioethics, environmental ethics and conservation biology.

Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation

2014-08-01 Nature
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Release : 2014-08-01
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation by : Clement A. Tisdell

Download or read book Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation written by Clement A. Tisdell. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book explores the influence of human values on the willingness of individuals to pay for the conservation of individual wildlife species (and classes of these), to be for or against their survival, and to favour or oppose their harvesting.

The Preservation of Species

2014-07 Biodiversity conservation
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Release : 2014-07
Genre : Biodiversity conservation
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Book Synopsis The Preservation of Species by : Bryan G. Norton

Download or read book The Preservation of Species written by Bryan G. Norton. This book was released on 2014-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all persons seriously concerned about the destruction of natural environments in the contemporary world, this book presents a comprehensive rationale for preserving wild species and ecosystems. Bryan G. Norton appeals most centrally to "transformative value," the power of human contacts with wild species to transform and uplift the human spirit. Until now species preservationists have found a theoretical basis for their policies in the "demand" value of wild species for fulfilling certain narrowly defined human needs or in controversial and badly understood proposals about the "intrinsic" values of species. This work examines such rationales and diverges from them by pointing to new sources of value for wild species: they have worth because they can transform human values. Because of the central role of biological diversity in environmental concerns, the book also provides a fresh perspective on environmental ethics more generally. Why Preserve Natural Variety? is sponsored by the Center for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, as was The Preservation of Species: The Value of Biological Diversity, which was edited by Professor Norton. Originally published in 1986. 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.

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