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Why preserve natural variety?
- Title
- Why preserve natural variety? / Bryan G. Norton.
- Author
- Norton, Bryan G.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1987.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- University of Maryland, College Park. Center for Philosophy and Public Policy.
- Description
- xiii, 281 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Norton provides a critical overview of the range of thought on the preservation of species issue. He presents a new and comprehensive rationale for preservation of both species and ecosystems, and addresses policy issues. Part A of the book discusses views according to which natural species and ecosystems are valued primarily for human use or enjoyment. Norton shows the many difficulties of quantifying species in terms of "human demand values." Part B examines views which give intrinsic value to species. Norton's own comprehensive rationale, presented in Part C, argues for preserving biological diversity. He appeals to the power of human contacts with wild species to transform and uplift the human species. ISBN 0-691-07762-2: $30.00.
- Series Statement
- Studies in moral, political, and legal philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Studies in moral, political, and legal philosophy
- Subject
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Written under the auspices of the Center for Philosophy on Public Policy, University of Maryland.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A rationale for preserving species: an apology and a taxonomy -- pt. A. Demand values and species preservation. Demand values and economic analysis ; The value of ecosystems and the value of species ; Diversity, stability, and autogenic systems ; Amenity values ; A parting look at demand values -- pt. B. Intrinsic value and species preservation. Anthropocentrism ; Nonanthropocentrism I: Intrinsic value and individuals ; Nonanthropocentrism II: Species and ecosystems -- pt. C. Transformative values and species preservation. Transformative values ; A coherent rationale for species preservation -- pt. D. Triage: the priority issue. Formal and substantive priority systems ; Avoiding triage: an alternative approach to the priorities problem.
- ISBN
- 0691077622
- 9780691077628
- 069102507X
- 9780691025070
- LCCN
- 88124600
- OCLC
- ocm17640615
- 17640615
- SCSB-1705533
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library