Autore	Sandler Ronald L.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	179/.1
Collana	Cambridge applied ethics
Soggetto topico	Environmental ethics Bioethics Species Biodiversity Nature - Effect of human beings on - Moral and ethical aspects Human-animal relationships - Moral and ethical aspects Conservation biology - Moral and ethical aspects Mass extinctions - Moral and ethical aspects Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects Climatic changes - Moral and ethical aspects
ISBN	1-316-08990-8 1-139-79414-0 1-139-15122-3 1-107-25456-6 1-139-77675-4 1-139-78278-9 1-139-77979-6 1-283-71599-6 1-139-77827-7
Classificazione	PHI005000
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction -- The value of species -- The conservation biology dilemma -- Assisted colonization -- Shifting goals and changing strategies -- The (in)significance of species boundaries -- Homo sapiens in particular -- Artifactual species -- Conclusion.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910827767703321

Autore	Elliot Robert <1950->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (359 p.)
Disciplina	179/.1
Collana	Environmental philosophies series
Soggetto topico	Environmental ethics Restoration ecology Environmental degradation Environmental policy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-134-83339-3 1-281-14258-1 9786611142582 0-203-01454-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450118003321

Autore	Elliot Robert <1950->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 177 pages)
Disciplina	179/.1
Collana	Environmental philosophies series
Soggetto topico	Environmental ethics Restoration ecology Environmental degradation Environmental policy
ISBN	1-134-83339-3 9780203014547 1-281-14258-1 9786611142582 0-203-01454-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910818506903321

Autore	Murray Dale F.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (522 pages)
Disciplina	179/.1
Soggetto topico	Environmental ethics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-04-33999-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- General Moral Theories -- Applications and Approaches to Environmental Ethics -- What is Natural? Does It Matter? -- Business vs. Environmental Protection -- The Environment, Global Challenges, and Global Economies -- The Greening of Institutions -- Recreation and Environmental Ethics -- Environmental Reform and Unintended Consequences -- Relations between Human and Non-Human Animals -- Think Globally, Act Locally -- Are These Really Environmental Problems? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466060703321

Autore	Potter Van Rensselaer <1911->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	East Lansing, Mich., : Michigan State University Press, 1988
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina	179/.1
Soggetto topico	Bioethics Medical ethics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-60917-288-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Knowledge of Adaptation is Needed for Wisdom; 1. The Leopold Legacy; New Perspectives on the Leopold Legacy; Aldo Leopold's Neglected Legacy; A Leopold Primer; 2. Human Survival; The Cancer Analogy; Earth as Organism; The Issue of Survival; Survival Cannot Be Assumed; The Meaning of Survival; Kinds of Survival; 3. Dilemmas in Ecological Bioethics; From Knowledge to Wisdom; The Dollar Dilemma; 4. Two Kinds of Bioethics; The Matter of Nomenclature; Teaching Ethics in Higher Education; Ethics in a New Phase; Global Bioethics and the Feminine Viewpoint 5. Dilemmas in Medical BioethicsTeenage Pregnancy; Handicapped Newborns; Organ Transplantation Euthanasia; Euthanasia; The Secular Vision; 6. The Control of Human Fertility; Two Kinds of People; The San Antonio Connection; Clinical Applications: Infertility; Nonsurgical Methods of Contraception; Contraceptive Research; Pregnancy Termination; Planned Intervention in Population Change; Fertility-Regulating Methods; Social & Religious Correlates of Fertility; 7. Global Bioethics Defined; Human Health as the Global Bioethic; Medical Bioethics in Perspective; Ecological Bioethics in Perspective Appendix 1: The Leopold HeritageThe Leopold Family Heritage; The Leopold Intellectual Heritage; Appendix 2: A Bioethical Creed for Individuals; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457407003321