Overview
- 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 norms and values
- The only comprehensive dissent to the view that biodiversity is good
- Extremely timely as biodiversity is claimed to justify most conservation projects today
- Offers a novel alternative to capture our intuitions about the value of natural world
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 19)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Assisted Migrations
- Biodiversity
- Bioprospecting
- Consequentialism
- Conservation
- Deontology
- Ecological Option Value
- Ecosystems
- Efficiency
- Egalitatianism
- Endangerment
- Environment
- Ethics
- Fallacies About Biodiversity
- Fungibility
- Geographical Rarity
- Human Health
- Life Sustainer
- Moral Corruption
- Nature's Value
- Phylogeny
- Ta Legomena
- Theories of Biodiversity
- Value
- Value Generator
- Viability
- Virtue Ethics
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book is a tour de force of scholarship that engages an astonishing number of perspectives and aggressively challenges a deeply and widely held assumption in our thinking about nature’s value. … it is meticulously organized and serves as a rich resource for all things biodiversity.” (David E. Storey, Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 10 (1), 2013)
“In What’s So Good about Biodiversity, Maier, an environmentalist and moral philosopher, redefines the argument for the value of nature beyond the current biodiversity justification. … it is more appropriate for an environmental ethics course for advanced students. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty.” (K. R. Thompson, Choice, Vol. 50 (4), December, 2012)
“The book entitled ‘What’s So Good About Biodiversity’ written by D.S. Maier presents deep intellectual reasoning about nature’s value. … The text is well written and Maier uses technical terms only when they are truly unavoidable. … this book is read not only by philosophers, but also by environmentalists and biologists.” (Christian Wilhelm, Journal of Plant Physiology, Vol. 169 (15), 2012)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: What's So Good About Biodiversity?
Book Subtitle: A Call for Better Reasoning About Nature's Value
Authors: Donald S. Maier
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3991-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3990-1Published: 24 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7099-7Published: 20 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-3991-8Published: 23 May 2012
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 568
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Environment, general, Biodiversity, Philosophy of Nature, Business and Management, general