How Nature Matters
Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 August 2022
- ISBN 9780198871613
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 223x144x14 mm
- Weight 346 g
- Language English 248
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Short description:
James presents an original theory of nature's value based on part-whole relations, and solves the difficult problem of how we should conceptualize nature's cultural values. This accessible, engagingly written book will be essential reading for all those who wish to understand the moral and metaphysical dimensions of environmental issues.
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HOW NATURE MATTERS presents an original theory of nature's value based on part?whole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts of valuable wholes ? as parts of traditions, for instance, or cultural identities.
James develops his theory by investigating twelve real-world cases, ranging from the veneration of sacred trees to the hunting of dugongs. He also analyses some key policy-related debates and explores various fundamental issues in environmental philosophy, including the question of whether anything on earth qualifies as natural.
This accessible, engagingly written book will be essential reading for all those who wish to understand the moral and metaphysical dimensions of environmental issues.
This admirably well-written book makes a convincing case for moving beyond the instrumental vs intrinsic value contrast when assessing nature's contributions to human meaning
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART 1: Means and Ends
Instrumentality and Causation
Cultural Ecosystem Services
Limitations of the Standard Model
PART 2: Parts and Wholes
The Meanings of Things
Constitution
Value and Disvalue
Deep Ecology, Essentialism, Narrative, and Relational Value
PART 3: Wider issues
Why Nature?
Beyond Value for Us
Constitution and Rights
Conclusion
Bibliography
