Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation BiologyCambridge University Press, 2003 - 554 pages This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for environmental management. The author, trained as a philosopher of science and language, explores ways to break down the disciplinary barriers to communication and deliberation about environment policy, and to integrate science and evaluations into a more comprehensive environmental policy. Choosing sustainability as the keystone concept of environmental policy, the author explores what we can learn about sustainable living from the philosophy of pragmatism, from ecology, from economics, from planning, from conservation biology and from related disciplines. The idea of adaptive, or experimental, management provides the context, while insights from various disciplines are integrated into a comprehensive philosophy of environmental management. The book will appeal to students and professionals in the fields of environmental policy and ethics, conservation biology, and philosophy of science. |
Contents
I | 5 |
II | 22 |
III | 39 |
IV | 70 |
V | 80 |
VI | 97 |
VIII | 99 |
IX | 102 |
XXVI | 272 |
XXVIII | 280 |
XXIX | 297 |
XXXI | 320 |
XXXIII | 337 |
XXXV | 365 |
XXXVI | 367 |
XXXVIII | 388 |
X | 122 |
XII | 128 |
XIII | 157 |
XV | 160 |
XVII | 175 |
XIX | 193 |
XXI | 217 |
XXIII | 241 |
XXV | 269 |
XL | 412 |
XLII | 449 |
XLV | 452 |
XLVII | 459 |
XLIX | 470 |
L | 485 |
LII | 506 |
Common terms and phrases
accept adaptive management advocates aggregated Aldo Leopold analysis animals anthropocentrism applied argued argument assumptions behavior biodiversity biological resources C. S. Holling Callicott choices commitment complex concept conservation Conservation Biology constraints consumer sovereignty context Costanza criteria criterion cultural decision Deep Ecologists discussion diversity dynamic Ecological Economics ecological systems Ecosystem Health ecosystem management emphasize environment environmental ethicists Environmental Ethics environmental management environmental policy environmental problems environmental values environmentalists evaluation example experience expressed future goals habitat hierarchy theory Holling human idea impacts important individual inherent value integrity intergenerational intergenerational equity land ethic larger Leopold mainstream measure models monistic moral multi-scalar multiple natural capital natural systems Norton obligations opportunities options organicism paper paradigm perspective philosophical possible preferences principles question recognize represents scale scientific sense of place social values Solow species sustainability Thoreau tion understanding University Press valuation value theory welfare wetlands wild York