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Designing Criteria Suites To Identify Discrete And Networked Sites Of High Value Across Manifestations Of Biodiversity, Robin M. Warner, E Gilman, K D Hyrenbach, D Dunn, A Read Jan 2011

Designing Criteria Suites To Identify Discrete And Networked Sites Of High Value Across Manifestations Of Biodiversity, Robin M. Warner, E Gilman, K D Hyrenbach, D Dunn, A Read

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Suites of criteria specifying ecological, biological, social, economic, and governance properties enable the systematic identification of sites and networks of high biodiversity value, and can support balancing ecological and socioeconomic objectives of biodiversity conservation in terrestrial and marine spatial planning. We describe designs of suites of ecological, governance and socioeconomic criteria to comprehensively cover manifestations of biodiversity, from genotypes to biomes; compensate for taxonomic and spatial gaps in available datasets; balance biases resulting from conventionally-employed narrow criteria suites focusing on rare, endemic and threatened species; plan for climate change effects on biodiversity; and optimize the ecological and administrative networking of …


Value: A Menu Of Questions, Joseph Raz Jan 2011

Value: A Menu Of Questions, Joseph Raz

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The paper considers some questions arising out of reflection on Finnis's writings about value, exemplifying them by consideration of the putative value of knowledge. They include the role of harmony, and of self-evidence, in identifying or constituting values, and the ways in which values can provide reasons.