Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation

ISBN-13: 9780367627645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 182 str.

Patrik Baard

Opis

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation.

Spis treści

Part I Introduction and Background  Chapter 1. Introduction  Chapter 2. Background: The normative postulates of conservation biology  Part II Ethics and Biodiversity  Chapter 3. Ethics and the environment: Biodiversity and conservation through the lens of environmental ethics  Chapter 4. Intrinsic and instrumental values, and their relations  Chapter 5. Ethical theories and practical reasoning  Part III Recent Developments: Relations, Rights, and Science  Chapter 6. Recent developments in conservation biology: Ethics through the lens of conservation biology  Chapter 7. Relational values and IPBES Nature’s contribution to people  Chapter 8. Environmental human rights and rights of nature  Chapter 9. Conservation biology, assessments, and the argument from inductive risk  Chapter 10. Concluding thoughts

O autorze

Patrik Baard is a Postdoctural Researcher at the Institution of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Science. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research in applied ethics has covered climate change adaptation, sustainable development, biodiversity, and energy justice.