Humans value natural systems in many ways. Should all of these values be expressed in economic terms? Or, do ecosystems have value independent of humans? Aa Aa Aa What is the value of an intact, ...
Environmental Conservation, Vol. 37, No. 2 (JUNE 2010), pp. 136-146 (11 pages) Human activities may have detrimental effects on biodiversity, and appropriate economic valuation of biodiversity can ...
In "What is Conservation Biology?" Michael Soulé discusses several "normative postulates" of conservation biology, including that "biotic diversity has intrinsic value" (Soulé 1985). The idea that ...