Conserving Nature's Diversity Insights from Biology, Ethics and Economics Book

	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	List of Contributors
	Foreword
1	Introduction: Conserving Biological Diversity	1
2	The Loss of Biodiversity: The Sixth Great Extinction	9
3	Biodiversity: Concerns and Values	16
4	Is Conservation Achieving its Ends?	30
5	The End of Conservation on the Cheap, Revisited	45
6	Threat to Biodiversity: The Invasion of Exotic Species	68
7	Economic Perspectives on Preservation of Biodiversity	88
8	Biodiversity: Forests, Property Rights and Economic Value	106
9	Economics, Endangered Species and Biodiversity Loss: The Dismal Science in Practice	123
10	Biodiversity and Ethics: Religion, Science and Economics	143
11	Implications for Democratic Theory: A Normative Analysis	160
	References	170
	Index	199