The environmentalists' dilemma -- Moralists and aggregators: the case of Muir and Pinchot -- Aldo Leopold and the search for an integrated theory of environmental management -- Conservationists and preservationists today -- Worldviews: a whirlwind tour -- The pressures of grwoth -- Pollution control -- Biological diversity -- Land use policy -- Diverging worldviews, converging policies -- Intertemporal ethics -- Interspecific ethics
Summary
The focus of this treatise is the distinction between objectives and values in developing environmental policies. The author argues that environmentalism is a coalition of many groups working toward common objectives, but unlike other social movements, it does not have shared moral principles
Analysis
Environment Conservation Organisations
United States
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index
