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1 online resource (626 pages)
ISBN:
9780226595221
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While many disciplines contribute to environmental conservation, there is little successful integration of science and social values. Arguing that the central problem in conservation is a lack of effective communication, Bryan Norton shows in Sustainability how current linguistic resources discourage any shared, multidisciplinary public deliberation over environmental goals and policy. In response, Norton develops a new, interdisciplinary approach to defining sustainability-the cornerstone of environmental policy-using philosophical and linguistic analyses to create a nonideological vocabulary that can accommodate scientific and evaluative environmental discourse. Emphasizing cooperation and adaptation through social learning, Norton provides a practical framework that encourages an experimental approach to language clarification and problem formulation, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to creating solutions. By moving beyond the scientific arena to acknowledge the importance of public discourse, Sustainability offers an entirely novel approach to environmentalism.
Content:
Intro -- 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226595191
Additional Edition:
Print version Sustainability : A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Norton, Bryan G., 1944 - Sustainability Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 9780226595214
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226595191
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226595218
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226595196
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Umweltbezogenes Management
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