Ethics in biodiversity conservation / Patrik Baard.
| Author/creator | Baard, Patrik |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I. Introduction and background -- Introduction -- Background: the normative postulates of conservation biology -- Part II. Ethics and biodiversity -- Ethics and the environment: biodiversity and conservation through the lens of environmental ethics -- Intrinsic and instrumental values, and their relations -- Ethical theories and practical reasoning -- Part III. Recent developments: relations, rights, and science -- Recent developments in conservation biology: ethics through the lens of conservation biology -- Relational values and IPBES nature's contribution to people -- Environmental human rights and rights of nature -- Conservation biology, assessments, and the argument from inductive risk -- Concluding thoughts. |
| Abstract | "This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation. The objective of this book is two-fold: on the one hand it offers a detailed and systematic account of central normative concepts often used, but rarely explicated nor justified, within conservation biology. Such concepts include 'values' (both intrinsic, instrumental, and, more recently, relational), 'rights', and 'duties'. The second objective is to emphasize to environmental philosophers and applied ethicists the many interesting decision-making challenges of biodiversity conservation. The book argues that a nuanced account of instrumental values provides a powerful tool for reasoning about the values of biodiversity. It also scrutinizes relational values, the concept of rights of nature, and risk, and show how moral philosophy proves indispensable for these concepts. Consequently, it engages with recent suggestions on normative aspects of biodiversity conservation, and show the need for moral philosophy in biodiversity conservation. The overriding aim of this book is to provide conservation biologists and policy-makers with a systematic overview of concepts and assessments of the reasons for reaching prescriptive conclusions about biodiversity conservation. This will prove instrumental in clarifying the role of applied ethics and a refined understanding of the tools it can provide. This title will be of interest to students and scholars of conservation biology, conservation policy, environmental ethics and environmental philosophy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Baard, Patrik. Ethics in biodiversity conservation Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9780367627645 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021030456 |
| ISBN | 9781000504828 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003110712 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |