Defending biodiversity: environmental science and ethics
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 441 Seiten Diagramme |
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Contents
Preface page lx
Acknowledgments xiv
Biodiversity and the Environmentalist Agenda 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 What Do We Mean by biodiversity'? 2
1.3 Why Think the Earth Is Running Out of Biodiversity? 6
1.4 The Environmentalist Agenda 15
1.5 Total Commitment vs. the Ceteris Paribus
Environmentalist 22
1.6 Environmental Ethics and Intrinsic Value 22
1.7 The Structure of this Book 39
1.8 Further Reading 42
PART I INSTRUMENTAL VALUE DEFENSES 43
Ecosystem Functioning and Stability 47
2.1 The Basic Argument 47
2.2 Preliminaries 50
2.3 Relationships between Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Functioning 51
2.4 Limitations of Experimental Design 60
2.5 A Summary of the Empirical Evidence 67
2.6 Questionable Relevance of the Experimental Evidence 77
2.7 Unpalatable Implied Commitments 86
2.8 Conclusions 91
2.9 Further Reading 92
2.10 Appendix: Economic Value of Ecosystem
Functioning 93
v
VI CONTENTS
3 The Precautionary Principle 97
3.1 Introduction 97
3.2 What Is a Precautionary Defense? 98
3.3 Defining the Precautionary Principle 100
3.4 Why vs. How: Uses of the Precautionary Principle 101
3.5 The Precautionary Principle, Risk Assessment, and
Cost-Benefit Analysis 107
3.6 Further Problems for the Precautionary Principle 118
3.7 Conclusions 130
3.8 Further Reading 131
4 Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Benefits 132
4.1 Introduction 132
4.2 A Precautionary Warning 133
4.3 Is Biodiversity Necessary for Food? 134
4.4 The Argument from Pharmaceutical Value 141
4.5 Conclusions 170
4.6 Further Reading 171
5 Nature-based Tourism and Transformative Value 173
5.1 Introduction 173
5.2 Demand Value of Biodiversity 175
5.3 The Transformative Value of Biodiversity 187
5.4 Conclusions 190
5.5 Further Reading 192
6 How Far Do Instrumental Value Defenses Get
Environmentalists? 193
6.1 Introduction 193
6.2 The Ecosystem Function Defense 194
6.3 The Precautionary Defense 195
6.4 The Food and Medicine Defense 195
6.5 Nature-based Tourism and Transformative Value
Defenses 200
6.6 Conclusions about Instrumental Value Defenses 200
CONTENTS V
PART II INTRINSIC VALUE DEFENSES 205
7 Methodology in Philosophical Ethics 209
7.1 Approaches to Justification in Philosophical Ethics 209
7.2 The Role of 'Thought Experiments' 223
7.3 Some Conceptual and Terminological Issues 227
7.4 Conclusions 232
7.5 Further Reading 232
8 Extensionism in Environmental Ethics 233
8.1 Introduction 233
8.2 The Animal Welfare/Animal Rights Distinction 234
8.3 Singer's Utilitarian Sentientism 236
8.4 Regan's Rights-based (Deontological) Sentientism 243
8.5 The Practical Charges against Sentientism 252
8.6 Can Sentientists Respond to the Practical
Charges? 257
8.7 Biocentric Individualism and Environmental
Ethics 272
8.8 Beyond 'The Classical Modernist Paradigm'? 273
8.9 Further Reading 273
9 Ecoholism: Do Ecological Wholes Have Intrinsic
Value? 274
9.1 Introduction 274
9.2 Some Non-starters and Common Problems 275
9.3 Extensionist Defenses of Ecoholism 283
9.4 Conclusions 299
9.5 Further Reading 300
10 Ecoholism 2: Callicott on the Leopold Land Ethic 301
10.1 Leopold's Life and Style of Writing 302
10.2 Callicott's "Triangular Affair" Paper 307
10.3 Callicott's Later Interpretation of Leopold 314
10.4 Some Objections to Callicott's Interpretation
of Leopold 333
Vill CONTENTS
10.5 Where Does Reading Leopold get us? 348
10.6 Further Reading 353
11 Should Biodiversity Be Conserved for Its Aesthetic
Value? 354
11.1 Introduction 354
11.2 Russow, Sober, and the Duty to Conserve Artwork 361
11.3 The Superficiality Objection 3 70
11.4 The Problem of Unappealing Species and
Ecosystems 374
11.5 Environmental Aesthetics and the Natural
Environmental Model 377
11.6 Outstanding Challenges for an Aesthetic Defense
of Conservation 383
11.7 Further Reading 386
12 How Far Do Intrinsic Value Defenses Get
Environmentalists ? 387
12.1 Introduction 387
12.2 Anthropocentrism 387
12.3 Sentientism 393
12.4 Ecoholism and Biocentric Individualism 394
12.5 Aesthetic Intrinsic Value 395
12.6 Conclusions 396
13 Conclusions and Personal Reflections 397
13.1 Jonathan Newman 39 J
13.2 Gary Varner 403
13.3 Stefan Linquist 408
13.4 Don't Agree to Disagree 416
13.5 Why Ought We Conserve Biodiversity? 417
References 418
Index 436 |
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