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Sustainability
Bryan G. Norton
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Description for Sustainability
Paperback. Shows how linguistic resources discourage any shared, multidisciplinary public deliberation over environmental goals and policy. Emphasizing cooperation and adaptation through social learning, the author provides a practical framework that encourages an experimental approach to language clarification and problem formulation. Num Pages: 608 pages, 12line drawings. BIC Classification: RNK; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 40. Weight in Grams: 972.
While many disciplines contribute to environmental conservation, there is little successful integration of science and social values. Arguing that the central problem in conservation is a lack of effective communication, Bryan Norton shows in "Sustainability" how current linguistic resources discourage any shared, multidisciplinary public deliberation over environmental goals and policy. In response, Norton develops a new, interdisciplinary approach to defining sustainability - the corner-stone of environmental policy - using philosophical and linguistic analyses to create a nonideological vocabulary that can accommodate scientific and evaluative environmental discourse. Emphasizing cooperation and adaptation through social learning, Norton provides a practical framework that encourages ... Read more
While many disciplines contribute to environmental conservation, there is little successful integration of science and social values. Arguing that the central problem in conservation is a lack of effective communication, Bryan Norton shows in "Sustainability" how current linguistic resources discourage any shared, multidisciplinary public deliberation over environmental goals and policy. In response, Norton develops a new, interdisciplinary approach to defining sustainability - the corner-stone of environmental policy - using philosophical and linguistic analyses to create a nonideological vocabulary that can accommodate scientific and evaluative environmental discourse. Emphasizing cooperation and adaptation through social learning, Norton provides a practical framework that encourages ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226595214
SKU
V9780226595214
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99-50
About Bryan G. Norton
Bryan G. Norton is professor of philosophy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Linguistic Frameworks and Ontology, Why Preserve Natural Variety? and Toward Unity among Environmentalists and the editor of The Preservation of Species.
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