Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9512071147.B27058-0100000@world.std.com> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:53:20 +0001 From: Renewable News Network <mailto:rnn@RNN.COM> Subject: Re: Island Press: The Value of Life To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
oh, good, another book!Thanks, kerry. Is this your review?
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, kerry miller wrote:
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> For Immediate Release
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> Contact: Lisa Magnino at mailto:ipress@igc.apc.org
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> LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS... ...we need them more than you think we do
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> One of today's hottest topics is values -- family values, societal values,
> and educational values, among others. Until now, few have taken a close
> look at how our values are an outgrowth of our relation to nature, and in
> turn, affect the survival of the earth's nature and wildlife.
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> Stephen Kellert's The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society
> is the first work to pinpoint the basic values that represent people's
> diverse need to affiliate with nature. Kellert views these nine basic
> values as inherent tendencies, integral to being fully human, and considers
> the large scale loss of species on earth as a threat to human beings'
> physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual well-being.
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> Kellert's twenty years of research shows that the relationship between
> humans and nature involves biologically-based, inherent human tendencies,
> greatly influenced by culture, learning, and experience. The Value of Life
> illustrates these relationships:
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> * among diverse age, gender, education, socioeconomic, geographic, and
> ethnic groups
> * in relation to different human-animal activities
> * in response to varying species
> * among varying cultures.
> After evaluating these relationships, Kellert analyzes their impact on
> current ecological problems and applies them to current policy issues, such
> as the conservation and protection of endangered species and biodiversity.
> He argues humans must not allow issues such as property rights and economic
> development to supersede their fundamental need to affiliate with nature.
> Rather, he encourages us to celebrate our dependence on nature and living
> diversity in the quest to achieve a richer, varied, and more complete
> existence.
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> Stephen Kellert is professor at the Yale School of Forestry and
> Environmental Studies. He is co-editor, with Edward O. Wilson, of The
> Biophilia Hypothesis (Island/Shearwater, 1993).
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> The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society
> By Stephen R. Kellert
> 280 pages; figures, tables, index
> Cloth: $24.95 ISBN: 1-55963-317-4
> January 15, 1996
> A Shearwater Book
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