Sustainable values, sustainable change : a guide to environmental decision making / Bryan G. Norton.
Norton, Bryan G., author.
2015
GE40 .N67 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Sustainable values, sustainable change : a guide to environmental decision making / Bryan G. Norton.
Author Norton, Bryan G., author.
ISBN 9780226197319 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022619731X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226197456 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022619745X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780226197593 (e-book)
022619759X
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description xx, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Item Number 12269420
Call Number GE40 .N67 2015
Summary "One of the most trafficked terms in contemporary life, sustainability has risen to prominence as a buzzword before the many parties laying claim to it have even agreed how to define it. But the term's political currency demands that we develop an understanding of this elusive concept. Norton here offers an action-oriented, pragmatic response to the disconnect between public and academic discourse around sustainability, revealing 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. Looking across scales to today's global problems, Norton urges us to learn to think like a planet"--Page four of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-313) and index.
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Part 1: Change, complexity, and decision contexts. Responding to change ; The decision context ; A brief philosophy of adaptive ecosystem management ; Contesting sustainability : who will own the word?
Part 2: A process approach to sustainability. Introducing and grounding a procedural approach ; Heuristic proceduralism : a general method ; Tools of the adaptive trade ; Constructing sustainability : imagining through metaphors ; Adaptive collaborative management : empirical findings and case studies ; Addressing third-generation problems
Epilogue: Policy analysis or problem solving?
Appendix: Adapt's ten heuristics
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