Ecological Sustainability and Integrity: Concepts and Approaches

1. Front Matter

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2. Sustainability in Relation to Science, Law, and Ethics

   1. The Concept of Sustainability: A Critical Approach

      • Lynton K. Caldwell

      Pages 1-15

   2. Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

      • Kristin Shrader-Frechette

      Pages 16-30

   3. Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation Concept

      • J. Baird Callicott, Karen Mumford

      Pages 31-45

   4. Investigating Individual Motives for Environmental Action: Lexicographic Preferences, Beliefs and Attitudes

      • Clive L. Spash

      Pages 46-62

   5. Biocentrism and Ecological Integrity

      • James P. Sterba

      Pages 63-74

   6. Burden of Proof Requirements and Environmental Sustainability: Science, Public Policy, and Ethics

      • John Lemons

      Pages 75-103

3. Sustainability and Ecological Integrity: Problems in Natural Resources

   1. Water Resources: Agriculture, the Environment, and Ethics

      • David Pimentel, J. Houser, E. Preiss, O. White, H. Fang, L. Mesnick et al.

      Pages 104-134

   2. Canada’s Model Forest Program: The Manitoba Experience

      • Peter Miller

      Pages 135-152

   3. The Ratchet Effect

      • Carl F. Jordan

      Pages 153-167

   4. Sustaining World Fisheries Resources: An Ethical Dilemma

      • Charles F. Cole

      Pages 168-181

   5. Traditional Sustainability: A Case Study of Floodplain Fisheries Management in West Africa

      • Reginald Victor

      Pages 182-202

4. Approaches to Public Policy

   1. The Federal Ecosystem Management Initiative in the United States

      • Charles R. Malone

      Pages 203-217

   2. Sustainability, Growth and Distributive Justice: Questioning Environmental Absolutism

      • Ted Schrecker

      Pages 218-234

   3. Environmental Sustainability in Agriculture: Bioethical and Religious Arguments Against Carnivory

      • Robert Goodland

      Pages 235-265

   4. Why We Need a Non-Anthropocentric Environmental Evaluation of Technology for Public Policy

      • Laura Westra

      Pages 266-289

   5. Coping with 2050

      • Richard A. Carpenter

      Pages 290-311

5. Back Matter

   Pages 312-316

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This book follows upon earlier work which culminated in the publication of two recent books, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (John Lemons and Donald A. Brown, editors), and Perspectives on Ecological Integrity (Laura Westra and John Lemons, editors). Both of these books also were published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. In this book, we seek to explore more fully the concepts of sustainability and ecological integrity as well as the connections between them. We have divided chapters into three groups. In the first, the concept of sustainability in relation to science, law, and ethics is explored. In the second, concepts of sustainability and ecological integrity are applied to problems in specific natural resources. Finally, in the third group we examine possible approaches to public policy which might include concepts of sustainability and ecological integrity. Overall, we believe that this collection presents a wide variety of perspectives, discussions, and case studies. John Lemons Laura Westra Robert Goodland Editors ix CONTENTS PART I Sustainability in Relation to Science, Law, and Ethics Chapter 1 The Concept of Sustainability: A Critical Approach Lynton K. Caldwell 1. Problems of Definition 2 2. Behavioral Obstacles 4 3. Psychological Obstacles: Seven Deadly Sins of Unsustainability 8 4.

• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• Biological Microscopy

• Department of Life Sciences, University of New England, Biddeford, USA

  John Lemons

• Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

  Laura Westra

• Environment Department, The World Bank, USA

  Robert Goodland

Policies and ethics