Faking nature [[electronic resource] ] : the ethics of environmental restoration / / Robert Elliot

• Autore: Elliot Robert <1950->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 179/.1
• Soggetto topico: Environmental ethics; Restoration ecology; Environmental degradation; Environmental policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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 PROPOSALTHE 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 explores the arguments surrounding the concept of ecological restoration.
• Titolo autorizzato: Faking nature
• ISBN: 1-134-83339-3; 1-281-14258-1; 9786611142582; 0-203-01454-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450118003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Environmental philosophies series.