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Value of Life:

Biological Diversity And Human Society
  • ISBN-13: 9781559633185
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Stephen R. Kellert
  • Price: AUD $113.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/1997
  • Format: Paperback 283 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Popular science [PDZ]
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The Value of Life is an exploration of the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for human beings and society. Stephen R. Kellert identifies ten basic values, which he describes as biologically based, inherent human tendencies that are greatly influenced and moderated by culture, learning, and experience. Drawing on 20 years of original research, he considers: the universal basis for how humans value nature differences in those values by gender, age, ethnicity, occupation, and geographic location how environment-related activities affect values variation in values relating to different species how vlaues vary across cultures policy and management implications Throughout the book, Kellert argues that the preservation of biodiversity is fundamentally linked to human well-being in the largest sense as he illustrates the importance of biological diversity to the human sociocultural and psychological condition.
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Acknowledgments
 
Prologue
 
PART I. Universals
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Values
 
PART II. Variations
Chapter 3. American Society
Chapter 4. Activities
Chapter 5. Species
Chapter 6. Culture
 
PART III. Applications
Chapter 7. Endangered Species
Chapter 8. Conserving Biological Diversity
Chapter 9. Education and Ethics
 
Notes
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