Sustainability : a philosophy of adaptive ecosystem management /
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| Author / Creator: | Norton, Bryan G. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xviii, 607 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5792036 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Beyond Ideology
- A Note to the Busy Reader: Some Shorter Paths
- Chapter 1. An Innocent at EPA
- 1.1. The Old EPA Building
- 1.2. Towers of Babel: The Structural Problems at EPA
- 1.3. The Costs of Not Being Able to Get There from Here (Conceptually)
- 1.4. Hijinks and Political Hijackings
- Part I. Setting the Stage for Adaptive Management
- Chapter 2. Language as Our Environment
- 2.1. Introduction: The Importance of Language
- 2.2. Of Hedgehogs and Foxes
- 2.3. Progressivism, Pragmatism, and the Method of Experience
- 2.4. Environmental Pragmatism and Action-Based Logic
- Chapter 3. Epistemology and Adaptive Management
- 3.1. Aldo Leopold and Adaptive Management
- 3.2. What Is Adaptive Management?
- 3.3. Uncertainty, Objectivity, and Sustainability
- 3.4. A Pragmatist Epistemology for Adaptive Management
- 3.5. Uncertainty, Pragmatism, and Mission-Oriented Science
- 3.6. How Adaptive Management Is Adaptive
- Chapter 4. Interlude: Removing Barriers to Integrative Solutions
- 4.1. Avoiding Ideology by Rethinking Environmental Problems
- 4.2. Overcoming the Serial Approach to Environmental Science and Policy
- Part II. Value Pluralism and Cooperation
- Chapter 5. Where We Are and Where We Want to Be
- 5.1. The Practical Problem about Theory
- 5.2. Four Problems of Environmental Values
- 5.3. Where We Are: A Beginning-of-the-Century Look at Environmental Ethics
- 5.4. Economism as an Ontological Theory
- 5.5. Breaking the Spell of Economism and IV Theory
- 5.6. Pluralism and Adaptive Management: What the Study of Environmental Values Could Be
- Chapter 6. Re-modeling Nature as Valued
- 6.1. Radical, but How New?
- 6.2. A Naturalistic Method and a Procedure
- 6.3. Re-modeling Nature: Learning to Think like a Mountain
- 6.4. Hierarchy Theory and Multiscalar Management
- Chapter 7. Environmental Values as Community Commitments
- 7.1. Public Goods and Communal Goods
- 7.2. The Advantages of Democratic Experimentalism
- 7.3. Environmental Problems as Problems of Cooperative Behavior
- 7.4. Discourse Ethics
- 7.5. Experimental Pluralism: Naturalism and Environmental Values
- Chapter 8. Sustainability and Our Obligations to Future Generations
- 8.1. Intertemporal Ethics
- 8.2. Strong versus Weak Sustainability
- 8.3. Philosophers and the Grand Simplification
- 8.4. Grandly Oversimplified?
- 8.5. Passmore and Shared Moral Communities
- 8.6. What We Owe the Future
- 8.7. The Logic of Intergenerational Obligation
- Chapter 9. Environmental Values and Community Goals
- 9.1. A Schematic Definition of Sustainability
- 9.2. A Catalog of Sustainability Values
- 9.3. Beyond the Fact-Value Divide
- 9.4. Choosing Indicators as Community Self-Definition
- Part III. Integrated Environmental Action
- Chapter 10. Improving the Decision Process
- 10.1. Decision Analysis and Community-Based Decision Making
- 10.2. What Does Not Work: The Red Book
- 10.3. Heading in the Right Direction: The Changing Field of Decision Science
- 10.4. Getting It Mostly Right: Understanding Risk
- 10.5. The Two Phases Revisited: Putting Multicriteria Analysis to Work
- Chapter 11. Disciplinary Stew
- 11.1. Beyond Towering
- 11.2. Philosophical Analysis and Policy Choice
- 11.3. Scale and Value: The Key to It All
- 11.4. Disciplinary Stew: The Prospects for an Integrated Environmental Science
- 11.5. Environmental Evaluation: A Fresh Start in the World of What-If
- Chapter 12. Integrated Environmental Analysis and Action
- 12.1. Conservation: Moral Crusade or Environmental Public Philosophy?
- 12.2. An Alternative: The Dutch System
- 12.3. EPA and Environmental Policy Today: A Report Card
- 12.4. Constitutive Values and Constitutional Environmentalism
- 12.5. Problem-Solving Environmentalism
- 12.6. Seeking Convergence
- 12.7. Ecology and Opportunity
- Appendix. Justifying the Method
- A.1. Philosophy's Abdication
- A.2. The Rise of Linguistic Philosophy: Its Inevitability and Meaning
- A.3. The Rise and Transformation of Logical Empiricism, aka Positivism
- A.4. Pragmatism: The New Way Forward
- A.5. Pragmatism and Environmental Policy
- A.6. Philosophy's Role: An Epilogue
- Notes