Debating Nature S Value
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Debating Nature S Value
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Author : Victor Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-21
Debating Nature S Value written by Victor Anderson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-21 with Business & Economics categories.
The concept of 'Natural Capital' has come to play a central role in current debates about biodiversity and nature conservation. It implies an approach to the natural world based on the valuation of places and species in terms of money. This is, in a variety of ways, both attractive and problematic. This edited collection comprehensively discusses the issues raised by the concept of 'Natural Capital', with contributors presenting not only arguments for and against the widespread adoption of the idea, but also viewpoints arguing for nuanced, pragmatic and middle-ground positions.
Divided Natures
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Author : Kerry H Whiteside
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2002-02-01
Divided Natures written by Kerry H Whiteside and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-01 with Science categories.
In this book Kerry Whiteside introduces the work of a range of French ecological theorists to an English-speaking audience. He shows how thinkers in France and in English-speaking countries have produced different strains of ecological thought and suggests that the work of French ecological theorists could lessen pervasive tensions in Anglophone ecology. Much of the theory written in English is shaped by the debate between anthropocentric ecologists, who contend that the value of our nonhuman surroundings derives from their role in fulfilling human interests, and ecocentric ecologists, who contend that the nonhuman world holds ultimate value in and of itself. This debate is almost nonexistent among French theorists, who tend to focus on the processes linking nature and human identity. Whiteside suggests that the insights of French theorists could help English-language theorists to extricate themselves from endless debates over the real center of nature's value. Among the French theorists discussed are Denis de Rougemont, Denis Duclos, René Dumont, Luc Ferry, André Gorz, Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour, Alain Lipietz, Edgar Morin, Serge Moscovici, and Michel Serres. The English-language theorists discussed include John Barry, Robyn Eckersley, Robert Goodin, Tim Hayward, Holmes Rolston III, and Paul Taylor.
Nature S Saviours
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Author : Graham Huggan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-22
Nature S Saviours written by Graham Huggan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-22 with Nature categories.
Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. This book, one of the first to address this contribution, focuses on five key figures: the English naturalist David Attenborough, the French marine adventurer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the American primatologist Dian Fossey, the Canadian scientist-broadcaster-activist David Suzuki, and the Australian 'crocodile hunter' Steve Irwin. Some of the issues the author addresses include: What is the changing relationship between western conservation and celebrity? How has the spread of television helped shape and mediate this relationship? To what extent can celebrity conservation be seen as part of a global system in which conservation, like celebrity, is big business? The book critically examines the heroic status accorded to the five figures mentioned above, taking in the various discourses – around nature, science, nation, gender – through which they and their work have been presented to us. In doing so, it fills in the cultural, historical and ideological background behind contemporary celebrity conservationism as a popular expression of a chronically endangered world.
Biology Of Conservation Efforts
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Author : Ahilya Bandopadhyay
language : en
Publisher: Educohack Press
Release Date : 2025-01-23
Biology Of Conservation Efforts written by Ahilya Bandopadhyay and has been published by Educohack Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-23 with Science categories.
Biology of Conservation Efforts delves into the scientific discipline of conservation biology, born out of the urgent need to address biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and the depletion of genetic resources. Highlighting humanity's responsibility as stewards of the natural world, this book explores how human mismanagement, misguided economic policies, and institutional failures have contributed to the unprecedented threats facing biodiversity today. The book examines the history and development of conservation biology as a sub-discipline, the concept of biodiversity, and the interconnectedness of ecosystems. Readers will gain insights into efforts to preserve biodiversity, including scientific research, ethical considerations, and conservation activism. It also discusses the critical role of biodiversity in ecosystem services, such as soil formation, water purification, nutrient cycling, and pollution breakdown. This book is an essential guide for understanding the challenges and strategies involved in preserving our planet's natural heritage for future generations.
New Natures
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Author : Dolly Jorgensen
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2013-07-08
New Natures written by Dolly Jorgensen and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-08 with Technology & Engineering categories.
New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking. The chapters follow three central themes: ways of knowing, or how knowledge is produced and how this mediates our understanding of the environment; constructions of environmental expertise, showing how expertise is evaluated according to categories, categorization, hierarchies, and the power afforded to expertise; and lastly, an analysis of networks, mobilities, and boundaries, demonstrating how knowledge is both diffused and constrained and what this means for humans and the environment. Contributors explore these themes by discussing a wide array of topics, including farming, forestry, indigenous land management, ecological science, pollution, trade, energy, and outer space, among others. The epilogue, by the eminent environmental historian Sverker Sorlin, views the deep entanglements of humans and nature in contemporary urbanity and argues we should preserve this relationship in the future. Additionally, the volume looks to extend the valuable conversation between STS and environmental history to wider communities that include policy makers and other stakeholders, as many of the issues raised can inform future courses of action.
Debates
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Author : South Australia. Parliament. Legislative Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Debates written by South Australia. Parliament. Legislative Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with South Australia categories.
Empirical Logic And Public Debate
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Author : Erik C.W. Krabbe
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-03-13
Empirical Logic And Public Debate written by Erik C.W. Krabbe and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-13 with Mathematics categories.
Empirical Logic and Public Debate supplies a large number of previously unpublished papers that together make up a survey of recent developments in the field of empirical logic. It contains theoretical contributions, some of a more formal and some of an informal nature, as well as numerous contemporary and historical case studies. The book will therefore be attractive both to those who wish to focus upon the theory and practice of discussion, debate, arguing, and argument, as well as to those readers who are primarily interested in applications to a particular field, such as ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, or the history of philosophy.
The Contribution Of Natural Law Theory To Moral And Legal Debate Concerning Suicide Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia
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Author : Craig Paterson
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2010-05-13
The Contribution Of Natural Law Theory To Moral And Legal Debate Concerning Suicide Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia written by Craig Paterson and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-13 with categories.
Biodiversity
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Author : John Spicer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-05-06
Biodiversity written by John Spicer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with Science categories.
Our future is closely tied to that of the variety of life on Earth, and yet there is no greater threat to it than us. From population explosions and habitat destruction to climate change and mass extinctions, John Spicer explores the causes and consequences of our biodiversity crisis. In this revised and updated edition, he examines how grave the situation has become over the past decade and outlines what we must do now to protect and preserve not just nature’s wonders but the essential services that biodiversity provides for us, seemingly for nothing.
Wittgensteinian Adj
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Author : Shyam Wuppuluri
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-22
Wittgensteinian Adj written by Shyam Wuppuluri and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-22 with Science categories.
“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?” What would it have looked like if we looked at all sciences from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s philosophy? Wittgenstein is undoubtedly one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His complex body of work has been analysed by numerous scholars, from mathematicians and physicists, to philosophers, linguists, and beyond. This volume brings together some of his central perspectives as applied to the modern sciences and studies the influence they may have on the thought processes underlying science and on the world view it engenders. The contributions stem from leading scholars in philosophy, mathematics, physics, economics, psychology and human sciences; all of them have written in an accessible style that demands little specialist knowledge, whilst clearly portraying and discussing the deep issues at hand.