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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784554303321

Autore

Norton Bryan G.

Titolo

Toward unity among environmentalists / / Bryan G. Norton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

0-19-756072-5

1-280-44204-2

0-19-535752-3

1-60256-025-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

363.7/058/0973

Soggetti

Environmental policy - United States - Citizen participation - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.