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Hunted predators: Intrinsic value
Science, 2015In their Perspective “When the hunter becomes the hunted” (19 June, p. [1312][1]), R. Woodroffe and S. M. Redpath summarize issues associated with lethal “predator control”—the killing of carnivores to benefit human industries (e.g., livestock production). We applaud their careful accounting of the ecological and economic trade-offs that accompany such
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Economic Value and Intrinsic Value
2016We need to differentiate between monetary wealth and the value it is creating, which takes account of the way we establish value not only for shareholders but for all stakeholders in an economic enterprise. Economic value, which is a component of the intrinsic value of a business, is one of the first metrics for value investing and value-based ...
M. R. Griffiths, J. R. Lucas
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Existence value and intrinsic value
Ecological Economics, 1998Abstract In this paper, the concept of existence value is related to the notion of intrinsic value current in environmental ethics, the methods employed to measure existence-value are discussed, and thus the question is investigated as to whether these methods are a satisfactory means of taking non-use value into account in practical decision-making.
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Intrinsically motivated exploration via intrinsic value calculation
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, 2012Intrinsically motivated exploration is an emerging topic in the area of exploration in reinforcement learning agents, and many authors have proposed methods of implementing intrinsically motivated (or curious) exploration paradigms. However, these implementations accomplish their exploration through the addition of an intrinsic reward to the existing ...
Benjamin W. Martin, Itamar Arel
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Clearly There is Intrinsic Value in Intrinsic Clearance
Hepatology, 1983R K, Roberts, S, Schenker
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The Intrinsic Value of the Environment
2001AbstractGenerations are not homogeneous entities and are composed of individuals and nations that have conflicting interests in the way in which resources are allocated among competing uses. This chapter discusses whether ‘the environment’, or ‘nature’, should enjoy special status in any allocation; whether the economist's approach is too ...
Wilfred Beckerman, Joanna Pasek
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1994
This book addresses some basic questions about intrinsic value: What is it? What has it? What justifies our beliefs about it? In the first six chapters the author defends the existence of a plurality of intrinsic goods, the thesis of organic unities, the view that some goods are 'higher' than others, and the view that intrinsic value can be explicated ...
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This book addresses some basic questions about intrinsic value: What is it? What has it? What justifies our beliefs about it? In the first six chapters the author defends the existence of a plurality of intrinsic goods, the thesis of organic unities, the view that some goods are 'higher' than others, and the view that intrinsic value can be explicated ...
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Subjectivist Theories of Intrinsic Value
2000It was argued, provisionally, that in order to fulfil the function required of it, namely underwriting an environment based, as opposed to a human or sentient based, ethic, the concept of intrinsic value needed to incorporate two features. Firstly, intrinsic value needs to be non-instrumental in the sense that it does not derive from, and depend for ...
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