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Acknowledgments T he seeds of many of the arguments that appear in the following pages were planted some years ago when I was a graduate student in what is now the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources (RSENR) at the University of Vermont (UVM). While they should not be held responsible for any of the book’s weaknesses, and I am sure they do not agree with everything I say here, my mentors and good friends at UVM, Bob Manning (RSENR) and Bob Pepperman Taylor (Political Science), should be credited with helping shape whatever good ideas have made it into these chapters. At UVM, I also want to thank Don Loeb (Philosophy), who introduced me to analytic moral philosophy.Although a lot of what I write in the following pages may be read as a deep criticism of that tradition, I hope he can at least appreciate the spirit of the project—and the pragmatic purpose of the critique. Within the field of environmental philosophy, I have learned much from the work of Bryan Norton and have especially enjoyed our conversations and occasional collaborations over the years. Among other things, I hope that this book makes a small contribution to the development, which he has long championed, of a more policy- and management-relevant environmental ethics . I also want to thank a number of other environmental philosophers for sharing their insights and their various degrees of engagement along the way, including Paul Thompson, Andrew Light, Dale Jamieson, Bob Frodeman, Clark Wolf, Dane Scott, Kelly Parker, and Gary Comstock. Outside environmental philosophy, I have benefited greatly from many discussions with a number of excellent and generous policy and management scholars, including Barry Bozeman, Steve Cohen, Jan Dizard, and Dan Sarewitz. One of the advantages of having pursued a more interdisciplinary path in environmental ethics has been the opportunity to work with many individuals and groups in the natural sciences who share my interest in the ethical dimensions of ecology and conservation. I especially want to thank my colleague and collaborator James P. Collins, whose work with me on the “ecological ethics” approach has been particularly rewarding (Jim is the co-author of Chapter 8). Likewise, I have learned much from my collaboration in recent years with forest ecologists Aaron Ellison and Kristina Stinson (Harvard Forest) on developing an applied environmental ethics program for training field ecology students and from my work with an Australian ecological research team organized by Kirsten Parris and Michael (Mick) McCarthy focused on exploring ethical trade-offs in ecological research design. Similarly, my involvement in the National Science Foundation– funded Managed Relocation Working Group, led by Jason McLaughlin, Dov Sax, Jessica Hellmann, and Mark Schwartz, has informed much of my thinking about conservation ethics and policy under global change, which is the subject of Chapter 9. The growing number of natural scientists interested in incorporating ethical concepts and arguments in their teaching and research is certainly a bright spot for applied environmental ethics and gives me hope that a more pragmatic and experimental approach to the field will lead to significant connections with the wider ecological research and conservation-management communities. Within my home institution, I want to thank Jane Maienschein, faculty leader of the Human Dimensions group in the School of Life Sciences (SoLS) at Arizona State University (ASU) and director of the Center for Biology and Society, for her leadership and strong support of me and my work during my time at ASU. Steve Pyne and Andrew Smith, SoLS colleagues and friends, have been the source of countless valuable discussions about the intersection of the applied humanities and the life sciences; they and the rest of my Human Dimensions colleagues have helped make the SoLS a great place to research and to teach environmental ethics and policy, as have my excellent undergraduate and graduate students. Finally, Vanessa Verri has provided steady encouragement and advice on the manuscript at various stages, for which I am most grateful. Mick Gusinde-Duffy at Temple University Press has been a strong proponent of this project from the start, and I sincerely appreciate his support, guidance, and patience. In closing, I would like to remember James W. Wessman, a mentor in another (partial) academic life and an old friend, who recently left us all too soon. Although I do not think he ever fully forgave me for becoming an environmental ethicist rather than an anthropologist, this book, like all of my writing, bears his imprint. James meant a great...

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