Refounding Environmental Ethics: Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice

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Index Abram, David, 58 Adaptive management, 33–34, 72, 168 Agrarianism, 82–83, 88 Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, 123–124 Alligator River Climate Change Adaptation Project, 168 Amphibian decline, 146–149 Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Nozick), 5 Anderson, Elizabeth, 138 Angulo, Elena, 150 Animal Liberation (Singer), 95 “Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Back Together Again” (Callicott), 99 “Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair” (Callicott ), 96 Animal rights/welfare: vs. environmental ethics, 92–102; pragmatic approach to, 100–102, 105–113 Anthropocene, 173 Anthropocentrism: as justification for environmental policy, 20–21, 34–35; nonanthropocentrists ’ critique of, 6, 16–19, 38, 40–41; “weak,” 6, 60, 86 Applied/practical ethics, 1, 5–6, 36–38, 40–41, 114–115, 141–142, 155–160 Arrowhead Mountain Lake, 91–92 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 82 Barber, Benjamin, 53 Barnosky, Anthony, 169 Barry, Brian, 43 Bentham, Jeremy, 95 Bentley, Arthur F., 43 Bernstein, Richard, 8–9 Berry, Wendell, 88 Biodiversity: ethical arguments for protecting, 126; ethical dilemmas in managing and studying, 14, 68–73, 91–92, 108–111, 140– 160. See also Managed relocation Biomedical ethics, 3, 115, 141–142 Bioprospecting, 145 Boisvert, Raymond, 80 Breaking the Impasse (Susskind and Cruikshank), 106–108 Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Nordhaus and Shellenberger), 88–89 Brower, David, 161 Brown, Donald A., 2, 34–35 Buck, Susan, 2 Bureau of Land Management, 124 Callicott, J. Baird, 6, 11, 19, 23, 32, 34–38, 55, 58–59, 62–63, 84–85, 96–97, 99, 125–126, 137–138 Carnap, Rudolf, 8 Carson, Rachel, 5 Case for Animal Rights, The (Regan), 98–99 196 / Index Caspary, William, 108 Channel Islands case, 142 Chitwan National Park (Nepal), 68–73 Climate change, 20–21, 35, 162–163; adaptation vs. mitigation, 20–21; and conservation, 164–174; ecological impacts of, 164; human impacts of, 163–164; and protected areas, 166–170; and public interest, 49–52; public understanding of, 170; and resilience, 21, 165, 168, 170; and scientific consensus, 162–163 Clinical pragmatism, 130 Cochran, Clark, 44 Cohen, Joshua, 53 Collins, James P., 14 Commoner, Barry, 5 Common Faith, A (Dewey), 76, 79, 83 Compensatory justice, 98–99 Conservation: and exotic pet trade, 148–149; under global change, 14, 162–174; and human welfare/development, 17, 68–73; and landscape -level approaches, 123; and zoos, 148– 149. See also Biodiversity “Conservation and Preservation: A Conceptual Rehabilitation” (Norton), 61–62 Conservation Biology (journal), 110, 145 Contextualism, 127, 129–137, 157. See also Dewey, John Convergence hypothesis (Norton), 61–62, 125– 126 Cook, Brian, 150 Coqui frog, 149–150 Corley, Elizabeth A., 131–132 Country Life Movement, 82 “Creative Democracy—The Task before Us” (Dewey), 28 Crichton, Michael, 162 Cruikshank, Jeffrey, 106–107 Democracy: and citizen environmentalism, 53–54; and deliberation, 53–54, 73–74; and foundationalism, 22–24; and inquiry, 28–29; and pragmatism, 23–31; and problematic situations , 102–105. See also Dewey, John Derrida, Jacques, 25 Dewey, John, 4, 8–10; and anthropocentrism, 81; contextualism of, 65–68, 73, 127–130; and Darwinian influence, 31; and democracy, 22– 29, 31–33; and democratic deliberation, 45– 49; and dispute resolution, 107–108; Hegelian influence on, 77; and inquiry, 9, 26–32, 45–49, 102–105, 107–108, 128, 136; and instrumentalism , 8, 24–25, 28, 31, 84–85, 87; and intrinsic value, 58–59, 65–68; and natural piety, 13, 76, 80–90; and pluralism, 103–104, 128–129 (see also Value[s]); and problematic situations , 29–30, 65–66; and public interest, 44–55; reconstructed liberalism of, 32; and religion, 75–90. See also Pragmatism Dillman, Don, 120 Dispute resolution, 105–108 Doremus, Holly, 165 Douglass, Bruce, 42 Dunlap, Riley, 116 Eckersley, Robyn, 32 Ecological ethics, 159–160 Ecological research, 14 Ecological restoration, 168, 171 Ecological Society of America, 145 Ecosystem services, 17, 58, 163–164, 167, 171 Ehrlich, Paul, 5 Eldridge, Michael, 79 Elliot, Robert, 171 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 84 Endangered Species Act, 11, 165 Environmental ethics: and democracy, 12, 32–36; and ecological research, 140–142, 144– 146, 151–154; and ecology, 5, 141; and environmental policy/management, 1–3, 6–7, 10–11, 17–22, 34–36, 38, 41, 49–53, 55, 68–74, 114–116, 121–127; and global change, 170– 174; historical development of, 4–7; and interdisciplinarity, 114–116; and principleism , 125–127; and public opinion, 115–116, 118–125, 130–139; reputation of in academic philosophy, 37–38; and social science, 115– 116, 138–139. See also Nonanthropocentrism Environmental Ethics...