Conserving Nature's Diversity

by Van Kooten, G. C.; Kooten, Van; Bulte, Erwin H.; Sinclair, A. R.; Bulte, E. H.

• ISBN13: 9780754610908
• ISBN10: 075461090X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Summary

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

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	viii
List of Contributors	ix
Foreword	xi
Introduction: Conserving Biological Diversity	1	(8)
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Erwin H. Bulte
A.R.E. Sinclair
The Loss of Biodiversity: The Sixth Great Extinction	9	(7)
A.R.E. Sinclair
Biodiversity: Concerns and Values	16	(14)
G.G.E. Scuddler
Is Conservation Achieving its Ends?	30	(15)
A.R.E. Sinclair
The End of Conservation on the Cheap, Revisited	45	(23)
Robert L. Pressey
Threat to Biodiversity: The Invasion of Exotic Species	68	(20)
Emina Krcmar-Nozic
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Bill Wilson
Economic Perspectives on Preservation of Biodiversity	88	(18)
R. David Simpson
Biodiversity: Forests, Property Rights and Economic Value	106	(17)
Roger A. Sedjo
Economics, Endangered Species and Biodiversity Loss: The Dismal Science in Practice	123	(20)
Erwin H. Bulte
Daan P. van Soest
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Biodiversity and Ethics: Religion, Science and Economics	143	(17)
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Implications for Democratic Theory: A Normative Analysis	160	(10)
Lesley Jacobs
References	170	(29)
Index	199