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Taking Phil-4349 because it fulfills your core requirement is an example of what kind of valuation?
Instrumental
Studying ethics because your convinced it's simply one of life's great goods, valuable no matter what else you choose to do, is an example of what kind of value?
Intrinsic
A species that plays a critical role in supporting or sustaining an ecosystem, and without which an ecosystem is likely to collapse
Keystone species
Nonuse value
Passive use value
A belief that humans are the only valuers and thus the value of a thing is completely capture by how humans value it
Anthropocentrism
An economic term for eating or directly using the body parts of wildlife
Consumptive use
A thing has this if its interests or goods must be taken into account when choosing what to do.
Moral status
Moral consideration
An anti-value or the way that things can mess up our other values
Instrumental disvalue
The way we value NOT using a thing now, so that it can possibly be used in the future
Option value
Sure, dugongs matter in and of themselves, just not nearly as much as we humans do
Weak anthropocentrism
An economics term for the indirect ways that humans use wild life (i.e., that don't include killing them or using their body parts)
Nonconsumptive use
The kind of value that recognizes that in order for humans to flourish they need to be able to appreciate and interact with other species
Relational value
This many subspecies of tiger have already gone extinct
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The value we place in making sure future generations have access to some resource
Bequest value
The belief that all living things have intrinsic value or moral status
Biocentrism
What we call the uses or usefulness of wild animals for humans
Wildlife resources
The value we place in how something looks, smells, feels, or sounds
Esthetic value
Most conservationists see wildlife and ecosystems as having this kind of value
Intrinsic, Biocentric, Ecocentric
The economics term for what people are willing to pay NOT to use or access a thing, but just to know that the thing is there
Existence value
The belief that an entire ecosystem or a species as a species has intrinsic value or moral status
Ecocentrism
What we call the uses or usefulness of ecosystems, such as their ability to filter air and water and absorb our waste
Ecosystem services
(or Nonmarketable values)
The key difference between how economists and ethicists view bequest value
For economists: the value exists now to present generations
For ethicists: the value also lies in the future for future generations
Name a bird species that can easily be spotted now (e.g., at Oxygen park) but not at other times of the year
Shrikes (Masked or Isabelline)
White Wagtails
Song Thrushes
The term for our collectively using wild animals in such a way that we ensure future generations can also use them
Sustainable wildlife management
The belief that when it comes to policy, biocentrism or ecocentrism will amount to the same thing as a genuinely enlightened anthropocentrism
Convergence hypothesis
Pragmatism