Faking Nature explores the arguments surrounding the concept of ecological restoration. This is a crucial process in the modern world and is central to companies' environmental policy; whether areas restored after ecological destruction are less valuable than before the damage took place. Elliot discusses the pros and cons of the argument and examines the role of humans in the natural world. This volume 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.
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'This book raises a number of important questions for anyone involved in debate of human-induced environmental change. It serves both as a kind of expose of the restoration proposal, and as an introduction to a broader discussion of what it is that people value in various kinds of landscapes.' - The Journal of Value Inquiry
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Robert Elliot is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts at Sunshine Coast University College, Australia. He has published extensively in the areas of environmental and applied ethics.
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A central claim of this book is that wild nature has intrinsic value, which gives rise to obligations to preserve it and to restore it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
improving consequentialism, extrinsic restoration, natural aesthetic value, intrinsic restoration, subjectivism objection, actual trilobites, ecosystemic type, intrinsic property constraint, judgements about intrinsic value, maintaining consequentialism, indexical theory, faking nature, valuing response, replacement thesis, relativism objection, attitudinal framework, maximizing consequentialism, natural intrinsic value, negative intrinsic value, faked nature, intrinsic moral value, restored ecosystem, faking art, cognitive disagreement, intrinsic natural values New!
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A central claim of this book is that wild nature has intrinsic value, which gives rise to obligations to preserve it and to restore it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
improving consequentialism, extrinsic restoration, natural aesthetic value, intrinsic restoration, subjectivism objection, actual trilobites, ecosystemic type, intrinsic property constraint, judgements about intrinsic value, maintaining consequentialism, indexical theory, faking nature, valuing response, replacement thesis, relativism objection, attitudinal framework, maximizing consequentialism, natural intrinsic value, negative intrinsic value, faked nature, intrinsic moral value, restored ecosystem, faking art, cognitive disagreement, intrinsic natural values New!
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- Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes by Dwight Baldwin on 4 pages
- Philosophy and the Natural Environment (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements) by Robin Attfield in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Environmental Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Robert Elliot in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by Andrew Light in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Environmental Philosophy by Robert Elliot in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- 10 Good Questions About Life And Death by Christopher Belshaw in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- 10 Good Questions About Life And Death (Wiley Desktop Editions) by Christopher Belshaw in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 by Michael Bess in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Retrieving Nature: Education for a Post-Humanist Age (Journal of Philosophy of Education) by Michael Bonnett in Back Matter
- Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process (Intertext Series) by Richard Cowell in Back Matter
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