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Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change (Paperback)
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Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change (Paperback)
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Sustainability is a nearly ubiquitous concept today, but can we
ever imagine what it would be like for humans to live sustainably
on the earth? No, says Bryan G. Norton in Sustainable Values,
Sustainable Change. One of the most trafficked terms in the press,
on university campuses, and in the corridors of government,
sustainability has risen to prominence as a buzzword before the
many parties laying claim to it have come close to agreeing how to
define it. But the term's political currency urgently demands that
we develop an understanding of this elusive concept. While
economists, philosophers, and ecologists argue about what in nature
is valuable, and why, Norton here offers an action-oriented,
pragmatic response to the disconnect between public and academic
discourse around sustainability. Looking to the arenas in which
decisions are made-and the problems that are driving these
decisions-Norton reveals that the path to sustainability cannot be
guided by fixed, utopian objectives projected into the future;
sustainability will instead be achieved through experimentation,
incremental learning, and adaptive management. Drawing inspiration
from Aldo Leopold's famed metaphor of "thinking like a mountain"
for a spatially explicit, pluralistic approach to evaluating
environmental change, Norton replaces theory-dependent definitions
with a new decision-making process guided by deliberation and
negotiation across science and philosophy, encompassing all
stakeholders and activists and seeking to protect as many values as
possible. Looking across scales to today's global problems, Norton
urges us to learn to think like a planet.
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