Searching for Sustainability Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Pragmatism as an environmental Philosophy ...............................9 The Constancy of Leopold`s Land Ethic ................13 Thoreau and Leopold on Science and Values...........30 Integration or Reduction : Two Approaches to Environmental values .................47 Convergence corroborated : A comment on Arne Naess on wolf policies .........78 Pragmatism, Adaptive management, and Sustainability ........88 2. Science, Policy, and Policy science .........105 What is a Conservation biologist ......107 Biological Resources and Endagered Species : History, Values , and Policy............110 Leopold as practical moralist and pragmatic policy analyst .....130 Improving ecological Communication : The role of Ecologists in Environmental Policy Formation ......136 3. Economics and Environmental Sustainability .............165 Sustainability, Human welfare, and Ecosystem health .......168 Economist preferences and the preferences of Economists ........183 Evaluating ecosystem states : Two Competing paradigms ...........201 Sustainability: Ecological and Economic Perspectives, with michael A. Tom............225 14. The Evolution of Preferences: Why Soverign Preferences may not Lead to Sustanable policies and what to do about it..............249 4. Scaling sustainability : Ecology as if Human Mattered .............277 Context and Hierarchy in Aldo Leopold`s Theory of Environmental Management ...............280 Scale and Biodiversity policy: A hierarchical Approach, with Robert E. Ulanowicz........288 Ecological Integrity and Social Values : At What Scale ........305 Change, Constancy, and Creativity: The New Ecology and some old Problems .............328 Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy, with bruce hannon ...............345 5. Some Elements of a Philosophy of Sustainable Living..........373 Caring for nature: A broader look at animal Stewardship .............375 Can there ba a Universal Earth Ethic..............396 Integenerational equity and Sustainability ...........420 6. Valuing sustainability : Toward a More Comprehensive approach to Environmental Evaluation ............457 Commodity, Amenity, and Morality : The Limits of Quantification in Valuing Biodiversity .............460 The Cultural Approach to Conservation Biology ........467 Evaluation and Ecosystem management : New directions needed ...........478 what do we owe the Future? How should we Decide..........493 Environmental Values and Adaptive Management, with anne steinemann...............514