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What’s So Good About Biodiversity? (Record no. 16451)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789400739918
978-94-007-3991-8
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BJ1-1725
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 170
Edition number 23
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-- Dordrecht :
-- Springer Netherlands :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2012.
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Personal name Maier, Donald S.
Relator term author.
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Title What’s So Good About Biodiversity?
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title A Call for Better Reasoning About Nature’s Value /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Donald S. Maier.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent VII, 568 p. 1 illus.
Other physical details online resource.
440 1# - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics,
International Standard Serial Number 1570-3010 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 19
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1 Prologue -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 What biodiversity is.- 4 What biodiversity is not.- 5 The calculus of biodiversity value -- 6 Theories of biodiversity value -- 7 Some inconvenient implications -- 8 Natural value starting from people.- 9 Figures -- 10 Glossary of Scientific, Computational, Economic, and Philosophical Terms -- 11 Acknowledgments -- 12 References -- 13 Index.
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Summary, etc   This book is unique in its treatment of biodiversity, which has come to be an emblem of what is worthy of protection and fostering in the natural world.  It undertakes a comprehensive, detailed, and careful philosophical analysis of the many reasons that scientists, economists, philosophers, and others offer for why biodiversity is supposed to be such a central good of nature.  Its conclusion is both surprising and disturbing:  No reason for biodiversity's good can be found that is not ill-conceived, logically indefensible, internally contradictory, or self-undermining. The profound failure to find the good of nature in its biodiversity is a springboard for rethinking what, exactly, makes the natural world so uniquely and robustly valuable.  This leads to a novel suggestion – that nature's value might be located in a particular human-nature relationship, which anchors the appropriate fit of people in the world at large.  Understanding nature's value in this way has far-reaching consequences, which call into question common orthodoxies of conservation, restoration, and environmentalism generally.   "In 1985, Michael Soulé, considered by many to be the father of the academic discipline of conservation biology, laid out his four normative postulates for the field: diversity of organisms is good, ecological complexity is good, evolution is good, and biotic diversity has intrinsic value.  In this book, Don Maier provides an essential, lucid, and critical evaluation of these claims.  It is a must read for all who seek to conserve the diversity of life." Jonathan Newman, Director, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph   "It’s widely claimed that biodiversity is valuable.  But to date, there has been little systematic, critical scrutiny of this claim.  Don Maier’s “What’s so good about biodiversity?” boldly undertakes this task. After carefully examining a variety of arguments for the value of biodiversity, and expressing serious doubts about where the valuation of biodiversity leads, Maier concludes that “Biodiversity is the wrong hook on which to hang the value of nature”.  Not content with a purely negative project, Maier then proposes his own, thought-provoking account of natural value.  Maier’s book will stimulate readers to scrutinize and reassess their own beliefs about value in nature.  His book will make a significant contribution to environmental ethics, and to broader debates about the ultimate goals of environmental conservation." Clare Palmer, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A & M University and past President, International Society for Environmental Ethics
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy (General).
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethics.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy of nature.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biodiversity.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economics.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethics.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environment, general.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biodiversity.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy of Nature.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economics/Management Science, general.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789400739901
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3991-8
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Source of classification or shelving scheme
Item type E-Book
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2014-04-03AUM Main Library2014-04-03 2014-04-03 E-Book   AUM Main Library170
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