Conservation and Preservation: A Conceptual Rehabilitation
Author(s)
Norton, Bryan G.
Abstract
A deep analysis of conservation and preservation as theoretical models of environmental policy. Norton is critical of the traditional way (following John Passmore) that conservation is viewed as anthropocentric while preservation is considered non-anthropocentric. The definitions of the policies need not include anthropocentric or nonanthropocentric motivations. Given a long time scale, these two motivations converge; what is good for a whole range of human values is also good for nature itself.
