Conserving Nature's Diversity

G.C. Van Kooten, Erwin Bulte, A.R.E. Sinclair

• 1: Introduction: Conserving Biological Diversity; 2: The Loss of Biodiversity: The Sixth Great Extinction; 3: Biodiversity: Concerns and Values; 4: Is Conservation Achieving its Ends?; 5: The End of Conservation on the Cheap, Revisited; 6: Threat to Biodiversity: The Invasion of Exotic Species; 7: Economic Perspectives on Preservation of Biodiversity; 8: Biodiversity: Forests, Property Rights and Economic Value; 9: Economics, Endangered Species and Biodiversity Loss: The Dismal Science in Practice; 10: Biodiversity and Ethics: Religion, Science and Economics; 11: Implications for Democratic Theory: A Normative Analysis