书目名称 | What‘s So Good About Biodiversity? | 副标题 | A Call for Better Re | 编辑 | Donald S. Maier | 视频video | | 概述 | An entirely unique treatment of biodiversity.Breaks down disciplinary walls, joining philosophy with hard science and economics.Meticulously crafted, scientifically informed examination of the central | 丛书名称 | The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980‘s. However, this book is entirely unique in its treatment of the topic. It is unique in its meticulously crafted, scientifically informed, philosophical examination of the norms and values that are at the heart of discussions about biodiversity. And it is unique in its point of view, which is the first to comprehensively challenge prevailing views about biodiversity and its value. According to those dominant views, biodiversity is an extremely good thing – so good that it has become the emblem of natural value. The book‘s broader purpose is to use biodiversity as a lens through which to view the nature of natural value. It first examines, on their own terms, the arguments for why biodiversity is supposed to be a good thing. This discussion cuts a very broad and detailed swath through the scientific, economic, and environmental literature. It finds all these arguments to be seriously wanting. Worse, these arguments appear to have consequences that should dismay and perplex most environmentalists. The book then turns to a deeper analysis of these failures and suggests that they result fr | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | 关键词 | Assisted Migrations; Biodiversity; Bioprospecting; Consequentialism; Conservation; Deontology; Ecological | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3991-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-7099-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-3991-8Series ISSN 1570-3010 Series E-ISSN 2215-1737 | issn_series | 1570-3010 | copyright | Springer Netherlands 2012 |
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