[The book's broader purpose is to use biodiversity as a lens through which to view the nature of natural value. This discussion cuts a very broad and detailed swath through the scientific, economic, and environmental literature. It concludes with a novel suggestion for framing natural value. This new proposal avoids the pitfalls of the ones that prevail in the promotion of biodiversity. And it exposes the goals of conservation biology, restoration biology, and the world's largest conservation organizations as badly ill-conceived.;The book's broader purpose is to use biodiversity as a lens through which to view the nature of natural value. This discussion cuts a very broad and detailed swath through the scientific, economic, and environmental literature. It concludes with a novel suggestion for framing natural value. This new proposal avoids the pitfalls of the ones that prevail in the promotion of biodiversity. And it exposes the goals of conservation biology, restoration biology, and the world's largest conservation organizations as badly ill-conceived., The book's broader purpose is to use biodiversity as a lens through which to view the nature of natural value. This discussion cuts a very broad and detailed swath through the scientific, economic, and environmental literature. It concludes with a novel suggestion for framing natural value. This new proposal avoids the pitfalls of the ones that prevail in the promotion of biodiversity. And it exposes the goals of conservation biology, restoration biology, and the world's largest conservation organizations as badly ill-conceived.]