Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology

ISBN: 9780521007788 出版年：2002 页码：566 Norton Cambridge University Press

General introduction: an interdisciplinary experiment. Part I. Pragmatism as an Environmental Philosophy: 1. The constancy of Leopold's land ethic 2. Thoreau and Leopold on science and values 3. Integration or reduction: two approaches to environmental values 4. Convergence corroborated: a comment on Arne Naess on wolf policies 5. Pragmatism, adaptive management, and sustainability Part II. Science, Policy, and Policy Science: 6. What is a conservation biologist? 7. Biological resources and endangered species: history, values, and policy 8. Leopold as practical moralist and pragmatic policy analyst 9. Improving ecological communication Part III. Economics and Environmental Sustainability: 10. Sustainability, human welfare, and ecosystem health 11. Economists' preferences and the preferences of economists 12. Evaluating ecosystem states: two competing paradigms 13. The evolution of preferences: Why 'sovereign' preferences may not lead to sustainable policies and what to do about it 14. Sustainability: ecological and economic perspectives Part IV. Scaling Sustainability: Ecology as if Humans Mattered: 15. Context and hierarchy in Aldo Leopold's theory of environmental management 16. Scale and biodiversity: a hierarchical approach 17. Ecological integrity and social values: at what scale 18. Change, constancy, and creativity: the new ecology and some old problems 19. Democracy and sense of place values Part V. Some Elements of a Philosophy of Sustainable Living: 20. Caring for nature: a broader look at animal stewardship 21. Can there be a universal earth ethic? Reflections on the earth charter 22. Intergenerational equity and sustainability Part VI. Valuing Sustainability: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach to Environmental Evaluation: 23. Commodity, amenity, and morality: the limits of quantification in valuing biodiversity 24. The cultural approach to conservation biology 25. Evaluation and ecosystem management: new directions needed? 26. What do we owe the future? An argument for introducing wolves into Adirondack Park 27. Environmental values and adaptive management.