Value of Life Biological Diversity and Human Society

Name: Value of Life Biological Diversity and Human Society
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ISBN: 9781559633185

ISBN-10: 1559633182

ISBN-13: 9781559633185

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Stephen R. Kellert

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The Value of Lifeis 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 details

List price: $53.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 3/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 283
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Stephen R. Kellert is Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is the author of a number of books, including Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection, and the coeditor of Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Foundations (MIT Press).