1st Edition

Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation

By Patrik Baard Copyright 2022
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation. The objective of this book is two-fold: on the one hand it offers a detailed and systematic account of central normative concepts often used, but rarely explicated nor justified, within conservation biology. Such concepts include ‘values’ (both intrinsic, instrumental, and, more recently, relational), ‘rights’,... Read more

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

Biography

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.