Conserving nature's diversity : insights from biology, ethics and economics

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Conserving nature's diversity : insights from biology, ethics and economics

edited by G. Cornelis van Kooten, Erwin H. Bulte, A.R.E. Sinclair

Ashgate, c2000

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An edited collection based on a workshop which explored the biological, social, ethical, economic and political pressures underlying the present perceived loss of biodiversity. It brings together philosophers, economists, biologists and others whose fields deal with the conservation of nature's diversity, and with the preservation and protection of species and ecosystems.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - conserving biological diversity, G. Cornelis van Kooten et al
  • the loss of biodiversity - the sixth great extinction, A.R.E. Sinclair
  • biodiversity - concerns and values
  • is conservation achieving its ends? A.R.E. Sinclair
  • the end of conservation on the cheap, revisited, Robert L. Pressey
  • threat to biodiversity - the invasion of exotic species, Emina Krcmar-Nozik et al
  • economic perspectives on preservation of biodiversity, R. David Simpson
  • biodiversity - forests, property rights and economic values, Roger A. Sedjo
  • economics, endangered species and biodiversity loss - the dismal science in practice, Erwin H. Bulte et al
  • biodiversity and ethics - religion, science and economics, G. Cornelis van Kooten
  • implications for democratic theory - a normative analysis, Lesley Jacobs.

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