Environmental ethics, protection and valuation

Title: Environmental ethics, protection and valuation
Creator: Du Preez, M
Subject: Environmental ethics
Subject: Environmental protection
Subject: f-sa
Type: text
Type: Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21022
Identifier: vital:29428
Description: This lecture addresses the environmental ethics, protection and valuation of natural assets. The aim of the lecture is threefold: first, to present a bio-ethical argument for the extension of our moral reference class to include all conscious and non-conscious natural assets; second, to discuss the moral significance of a broader moral reference class in terms of Aldo Leopold’s ‘Land Ethic’; third, to discuss the valuation of natural assets from a system’s perspective with specific reference to the estimation of non-use values. In what follows, Section I discusses environmental protection from a bioethical point of view, Section II discusses the moral significance of a broader moral reference class in terms of Aldo Leopold’s ‘Land Ethic’, Section III describes the concept of valuing natural assets with specific reference to the concept of non-use value and its measurement, and finally, Section IV concludes the lecture.
Format: 21 pages
Publisher: Nelson Mandela University
Publisher: Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
Language: English
Relation: Inaugural lectures
Relation: Inaugural lectures 2015
Rights: Nelson Mandela University

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