Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Biodiversity and Democracy -- 1 Practical Reasoning about Nature -- 2 Biological Diversity: An Environmental Condition -- 3 Utility Maximization -- 4 Economic Efficiency -- 5 Consensus among Stakeholders -- 6 The Case for the Priority of Biodiversity Conservation -- 7 The Costs of Biodiversity Conservation -- 8 Constitutional and Statutory Implications -- Notes -- References -- Index.