Valuing wildlands
Date
1985
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Environmental Philosophy, Inc., publisher
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Abstract
Valuing wildlands is complex. (1) In a philosophically oriented analysis, I distinguish seven meaning levels of value, individual preference, market price, individual good, social preference, social good, organismic, and ecosystemic, and itemize twelve types of value carried by wildlands, economic, life support, recreational, scientific, genetic diversity, aesthetic, cultural symbolization, historical, character building, therapeutic, religious, and intrinsic. (2) I criticize contingent valuation efforts to price these values. (3) I then propose an axiological model, which interrelates the multiple levels and types of value, and some principles for wildland management policy.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject
valuation
taxonomy of values
wilderness
value of wildlands