David J C BooklessUniversity of Cambridge | Cam · Faculty of Divinity
David J C Bookless
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David J C Bookless currently works for A Rocha International as Director of Theology, and is completing research at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. David does research in Ecology, Conservation biology, Theology and Interreligious Dialogue. His current project concerns how we attribute value to nonhuman species.
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The past century has seen a rapid acceleration in global anthropogenic biodiversity loss, despite massively increased conservation effort and knowledge. Consequently, there are wide-ranging debates around whether economic and instrumental valuations of wild nature assist in its preservation, or whether they commodify entities that possess intrinsic...
The ecosystem services framework (ESF) is advantageous and widely used for itemising and quantifying ways in which humans benefit from natural places. However, it suffers from two important problems: (i) incoherence of definitions and (ii) a narrow approach to valuation, inadequate to represent the full range of human motives for conservation and t...
This paper tells the story of A Rocha, an international Christian conservation organization, founded in 1982, and now working in an increasing number of countries. A Rocha's distinctive inclusive Christian basis is eplored in describing the original Portuguese project, and three more recent ones in Lebenon, Kenya and an urban UK context. Some of th...
