Overview

Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental policy management has gradually but radically changed the relationship between these disciplines. Over the last decades in particular, there has emerged a need for an interconnecting meta-paradigm that integrates more strictly evolutionary studies, biodiversity studies and the ethical frameworks that are most appropriate for allowing a lasting co-evolution between natural and social systems. Today such a need is more than a mere luxury, it is an epistemological and practical necessity.​

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Author:   Donato Bergandi
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2013 ed.
Volume:   296
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.203kg
ISBN:  

9789400750661

ISBN 10:   9400750668
Pages:   179
Publication Date:   05 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures.- List of Contributors.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Ecology, Evolution, Ethics: In Search of a Meta-Paradigm - An Introduction; Donato Bergandi.- 2  Evolution Versus Creation: A Sibling Rivalry?; Michael Ruse.- 3  Evolution and Chance; Jean Gayon.- 4 Some Conceptions of Time in Ecology; Jean-Marc Drouin.- 5 Facts, Values, and Analogies: A Darwinian Approach to Environmental Choice; Bryan G. Norton.- 6 Towards EcoEvoEthics; Patrick Blandin.- 7 Ecology and Moral Ontology; John Baird Callicott.- 8 Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics; Tom Regan.- 9 Reconciling Individualist and Deeper Environmentalist Theories? An Exploration; Robin Attfield.- 10 Two Philosophies of the Environmental Crisis; Catherine Larrère 11 Epilogue : The Epistemic and Practical Circle in an Evolutionary, Ecologically Sustainable Society; Donato Bergandi.- Index.

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From the reviews: The panel of contributors representing a variety of schools of thought is presented to the reader as an opportunity to embrace a wide landscape of philosophical problems within the fields of environmental science and nature conservation. I highly recommend this book to evolutionary biologists, systems ecologists, and environmental stakeholders, with the hope that it will contribute to new avenues of research in ecosystem resilience. (Jean-Francois Ponge, BioScience, February, 2014)

“Donato Bergandi … has produced important works in philosophy of ecology and environmental ethics … . This book is a very well organized one, covering various scientific and philosophical issues and debates. It is a highly recommended reading for a wide audience, including ecologists, evolutionary biologists and philosophers interested in environmental issues. … it can also be useful in introductory courses in environmental ethics as well as in history and philosophy of ecology/evolution courses.” (Nei de Freitas Nunes-Neto, Science & Education, Vol. 24, June, 2015)

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