Sustainability: a philosophy of adaptive ecosystem management
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1. Verfasser: Norton, Bryan G. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2005
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-599) and index
An innocent at EPA -- Language as our environment -- Epistemology and adaptive management -- Interlude : removing barriers to integrative solutions -- Where we are and where we want to be -- Re-modeling nature as valued -- Environmental values as community commitments -- Sustainability and our obligations to future generations -- Environmental values and community goals -- Improving the decision process -- Disciplinary stew -- Integrated environmental analysis and action -- Justifying the method
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
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