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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818506903321

Autore

Elliot Robert <1950->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-83339-3

9780203014547

1-281-14258-1

9786611142582

0-203-01454-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 177 pages)

Collana

Environmental philosophies series

Disciplina

179/.1

Soggetti

Environmental ethics

Restoration ecology

Environmental degradation

Environmental policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.