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Toward unity among environmentalists / Bryan G. Norton.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norton, Bryan G., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--United States--Citizen participation--History.
- Environmental policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents an argument that the environmental movement is a coalition of many groups working toward common objectives without common values. Norton believes this lack of unity causes unnecessary and divisive controversy and debate within the environmentalist community which impedes the development of effective and timely environmental management policies. The various participants in environmental debates see events so differently, and describe them in such diverse vocabularies, that the environmental movement, unlike other social action movements, lacks common theoretical principles. Norton's goal is to create a common language for discussing environmental issues as a first step towards a unified theory of environmental management.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; 1. The Environmentalists' Dilemma; 2. Moralists and Aggregators: The Case of Muir and Pinchot; 3. Aldo Leopold and the Search for an Integrated Theory of Environmental Management; 4. Conservationists and Preservationists Today; 5. Worldviews: A Whirlwind Tour; 6. The Pressures of Growth; 7. Pollution Control; 8. Biological Diversity; 9. Land Use Policy; 10. Diverging Worldviews, Converging Policies; 11. Intertemporal Ethics; 12. Interspecific Ethics; Epilogue: Differing Senses of Place; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756072-5
- 1-280-44204-2
- 0-19-535752-3
- 1-60256-025-0
- OCLC:
- 171571535
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