{"id":1214,"date":"2014-09-12T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2014-09-12T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:49:28","slug":"restoration-obligation-and-the-baseline-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2014\/09\/12\/restoration-obligation-and-the-baseline-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration, Obligation, and the Baseline Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2014\/09\/Grizzlymumcubs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1215\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2014\/09\/Grizzlymumcubs.jpg\" alt=\"Grizzlymumcubs\" width=\"660\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2014\/09\/Grizzlymumcubs.jpg 660w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2014\/09\/Grizzlymumcubs-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Environmental Ethics<br \/>\n<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>By\u00a0 Alex Lee, Adam Perou Hermans,\u00a0 and Benjamin Hale. Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2014<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Should we restore degraded nature, and if so, why? Environmental theorists often approach the problem of restoration from perspectives couched in much broader debates, particularly regarding the intrinsic value and moral status of natural entities. Unfortunately, such approaches are susceptible to concerns such as the baseline problem, which is both a philosophical and technical issue related to identifying an appropriate restoration baseline. Insofar as restoration ostensibly aims to return an ecosystem to a particular baseline state, and depends upon clearly identifying this baseline for success, the very project of restoration appears impossible to get off the ground. Recasting environmental restoration in terms of obligations, instead of status, value, or worth, can avoid this and other classic challenges. If obligations to restore nature follow from intersubjectively validated reasons to justify our actions, we can salvage restoration from the threat of the baseline problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencepolicy.colorado.edu\/admin\/publication_files\/2014.24.pdf\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Traveler100\" target=\"_blank\">Traveler<\/a>, Creative Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Ethics By\u00a0 Alex Lee, Adam Perou Hermans,\u00a0 and Benjamin Hale. Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2014 &nbsp; Should we restore degraded nature, and if so, why? Environmental theorists often approach the problem of restoration from perspectives couched in much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2014\/09\/12\/restoration-obligation-and-the-baseline-problem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2014\/09\/Grizzlymumcubs.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 03:06:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}