Patrik Baard is a Postdoctural Researcher at the Institution of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Science. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research in applied ethics has covered climate change adaptation, sustainable development, biodiversity, and energy justice.

Part I Introduction and Background Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Background: The normative postulates of conservation biology Part II Ethics and Biodiversity Chapter 3. Ethics and the environment: Biodiversity and conservation through the lens of environmental ethics Chapter 4. Intrinsic and instrumental values, and their relations Chapter 5. Ethical theories and practical reasoning Part III Recent Developments: Relations, Rights, and Science Chapter 6. Recent developments in conservation biology: Ethics through the lens of conservation biology Chapter 7. Relational values and IPBES Nature's contribution to people Chapter 8. Environmental human rights and rights of nature Chapter 9. Conservation biology, assessments, and the argument from inductive risk Chapter 10. Concluding thoughts