Faking nature : the ethics of environmental restoration / Robert Elliot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliot, Robert, 1950-

Series:

Environmental philosophies series.

Environmental philosophies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Restoration ecology.

Environmental degradation.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 177 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Faking Nature is a timely and provocative analysis of the simultaneous destruction and restoration of the natural world and the ethics related to those processes, in an era of accelerated environmental damage and repair.

Contents:

ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHIES SERIES; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 THE NATURE OF NATURAL VALUE; INTRINSIC VALUE; THE INTRINSIC PROPERTY CONSTRAINT; THE INDEXICAL THEORY OF INTRINSIC VALUE; SUBJECTIVISM, RELATIVISM AND NORMATIVE DEBATE; 2 ENVIRONMENTAL OBLIGATION, AESTHETIC VALUE AND THE BASIS OF NATURAL VALUE; ENVIRONMENTAL OBLIGATION AND CONSEQUENTIALISM; ENVIRONMENTAL OBLIGATION AND DEONTOLOGIES; VIRTUE, VALUE AND ENVIRONMENTAL OBLIGATION; NATURALNESS AND OTHER BASES OF NATURAL VALUE; AESTHETIC VALUE AND INTRINSIC VALUE; 3 FAKING NATURE

THE REPLACEMENT THESIS AND THE RESTORATION PROPOSAL THE ANTI-REPLACEMENT THESIS DEFENDED; THE NORMATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF ORIGIN; FAKING, RESTORING, PRESERVING AND PROTECTING; THE VALUE OF RESTORATION AND THE OBLIGATION TO RESTORE; 4 NATURALNESS, INTRINSIC VALUE AND RESTORATION ECOLOGY; THE NATURAL, THE NON-NATURAL AND THE ARTIFICIAL; NATURALNESS AND VALUE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-167) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-83339-3

9780203014547

1-281-14258-1

9786611142582

0-203-01454-5

OCLC:

70763753