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.
