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Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy - 9780521143424
Un libro in lingua di Sahotra Sarkar edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010
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This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasizing the conservation of biodiversity. Sahotra Sarkar criticizes attempts to attribute intrinsic value to nature and defends an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation based on an untraditional concept of transformative value. However, unlike other studies in the field of environmental philosophy, this book is concerned as much with epistemological issues as with environmental ethics. It covers a broad range of topics, including problems of explanation and prediction in traditional ecology and how individual-based models and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology are transforming ecology. Introducing a brief history of conservation biology, Sarkar analyzes the consensus framework for conservation planning through adaptive management. He concludes with a discussion of the future directions for theoretical research in conservation biology and environmental philosophy.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy
- Sottotitolo: An Introduction
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Sahotra Sarkar
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 10 Gennaio '10
- Genere: SCIENCE
- Pagine: 258
- ISBN-10: 052114342X
- EAN-13: 9780521143424