"Does the Convention on Biodiversity Safeguard Biological Diversity?"
Frank G. Mueller attempts to assess and evaluate some of the economic implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Frank G. Mueller attempts to assess and evaluate some of the economic implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
Ned Hettinger argues that exotic species should not be identified as damaging species, species introduced by humans, or species originating from some other geographical location and presents an alternative characterization.
Environmentalists consider invasions by exotic species of plants and animals to be one of the most serious environmental problems we face today, as well as one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss. Alan Carter argues that in order to develop and enact sensible policies, it is crucial to consider two philosophical questions: (1) What exactly makes a species native or exotic, and (2) What values are at stake?
In this paper the conservation value of traditionally protected forests is studied with regard to its ecological representativity and institutional persistence.
Charis M. Thompson describes key aspects of the formation in the mid 1990s of the Malpai Borderlands Group of the Southwest US, and the reorganisation of the Kenya Wildlife Service during 1994–6 and their legacies since then.
In this essay, Jay Odenbaugh examines the controversy concerning the advocacy of ethical values in conservation biology.
This paper adopts a social constructionist perspective to examine how the biodiversity “claim” is constructed and contested at local level.
Drawing upon two case studies of biodiversity initiatives in Canada, this paper looks at the role that constructivist conceptions of education play in the integration of alternative knowledge systems in environmental decision-making.
This paper studies the role of differing views of nature in nature conservation.