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What’s So Good About Biodiversity?

Part of the The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics Book Series (volume 19)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3991-8

ISBN: 978-94-007-3990-1

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Feb 18, 2012

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Chapter 1Prologue

Maier, Donald S.

Pages: 1 –6

[This chapter (in Sect. 1.1) relates why this book was written and why it is worthy of an environmentally concerned reader's careful consideration. Biodiversity has come to be regarded as an emblem of nature's value. However, the reasoning behind this proposition, which comes from scientists,...
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Chapter 2Preliminaries

Maier, Donald S.

Pages: 7 –70

[This chapter arms the reader with some requisite tools for following the many twists and turns of reasoning that this book follows – both in the work of others and later in the book's own (Chap. 8) proposal for why the natural world is so valuable. It first (in Sect. 2.1) provides an overview –...
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Chapter 3What Biodiversity Is

Maier, Donald S.

Pages: 71 –112

[While the principal aim of this book – up to the concluding chapter – is to survey, clarify, and scrutinize conceptions of value that might be said to attach to biodiversity, this investigation requires some reasonably clear conception of that which is valued. Therefore, the enquiry begins with...
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Chapter 4What Biodiversity Is Not

Maier, Donald S.

Pages: 113 –130

[To help demarcate the boundaries of Chap. 3’s definition of biodiversity, this chapter considers proposals to define biodiversity in ways that head off in various wrong directions. On the one hand (Sect. 4.1) are category mistakes that typically reduce biodiversity to, and confuse it with, the...
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Chapter 5The Calculus of Biodiversity Value

Maier, Donald S.

Pages: 131 –157

[At the logical halfway point of the book, this chapter turns from what biodiversity is to the value proposition for it. Its discussion abstracts from any particular account of the source of biodiversity’s value insofar as this is possible. Before looking at specific accounts for how biodiversity...
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Chapter 6Theories of Biodiversity Value

Maier, Donald S.

Pages: 159 –307

[The discussion of the calculus of biodiversity values in Chap. 5 is the final requisite prop for the stage across which this chapter parades accounts of how biodiversity is supposed to be valuable. The selection of these accounts is generous and represents a great majority of discussions on this...
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Chapter 7Some Inconvenient Implications

Maier, Donald S.

Pages: 309 –348

[This chapter steps back to take a broader view of commonly held beliefs about the “good” of biodiversity. It derives from them some implications that undermine the plausibility of the premise that biodiversity is a key to nature’s value. Section 7.1 explores the discomfiting implication that...
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Chapter 8Natural Value Starting from People

Maier, Donald S.

Pages: 349 –510

[The valuation of biodiversity as emblematic of natural value is a product of a more general framework for valuing the natural world, which has acquired a considerable grip on thinking about nature’s value. Section 8.1 characterizes this framework, including how, within the “biodiversity...

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