Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
This book examines from several disciplinary viewpoints the question of what we mean-what we should mean - by setting Sustainability as a goal for environmental mangement. Bryan G. Norton, trained as a philsopher of science and language ,searches through multiple discipline for insight necessary to develop a comprehensive and integrated concept of sustainable living. This book explores ways to break down the disciplinary barriers to communication and deliberation about environmental policy and to intergrate science and evalution into a more effective environmental strategy. Choosing sustainabillty as the key concept of environmental policy,the author explore what we can learn about sustainable living from the conservation biology, and from related discipline. The idea of adaptive,or expermental, management provides the context, while insights from various disciplines are intergrated into a comprehensive philosophy of environmental mangement.
I. Pragmatism as an Environmental Philosophy
II. Science, Policy, and Policy Science
III. Economics and Environmental Sustainability
IV. Scaling Sustainability: Ecology as if humansmattered
V. Some Elements of a Philosophy of Sustainable Living
VI. Valuing Sustainability: Toward a more comprehensive