Contents -- Preface: Beyond Ideology -- A Note to the Busy Reader: Some Shorter Paths -- Chapter 1: An Innocent at EPA -- 1.1 The Old EPA Building -- 1.2 Towers of Babel: The Structural Problems at EPA -- 1.3 The Costs of Not Being Able to Get There from Here (Conceptually) -- 1.4 Hijinks and Political Hijackings -- Part I: Setting the Stage for Adaptive Management -- Chapter 2: Language as Our Environment -- 2.1 Introduction: The Importance of Language -- 2.2 Of Hedgehogs and Foxes -- 2.3 Progressivism, Pragmatism, and the Method of Experience -- 2.4 Environmental Pragmatism and Action-Based Logic -- Chapter 3: Epistemology and Adaptive Management -- 3.1 Aldo Leopold and Adaptive Management -- 3.2 What Is Adaptive Management? -- 3.3 Uncertainty, Objectivity, and Sustainability -- 3.4 A Pragmatist Epistemology for Adaptive Management -- 3.5 Uncertainty, Pragmatism, and Mission-Oriented Science -- 3.6 How Adaptive Management Is Adaptive -- Chapter 4: Interlude: Removing Barriers to Integrative Solutions -- 4.1 Avoiding Ideology by Rethinking Environmental Problems -- 4.2 Overcoming the Serial Approach to Environmental Science and Policy -- Part II: Value Pluralism and Cooperation -- Chapter 5: Where We Are and Where We Want to Be -- 5.1 The Practical Problem about Theory -- 5.2 Four Problems of Environmental Values -- 5.3 Where We Are: A Beginning-of-the-Century Look at Environmental Ethics -- 5.4 Economism as an Ontological Theory -- 5.5 Breaking the Spell of Economism and IV Theory -- 5.6 Pluralism and Adaptive Management: What the Study of Environmental Values Could Be -- Chapter 6: Re-modeling Nature as Valued -- 6.1 Radical, but How New? -- 6.2 A Naturalistic Method and a Procedure -- 6.3 Re-modeling Nature: Learning to Think like a Mountain -- 6.4 Hierarchy Theory and Multiscalar Management.

Chapter 7: Environmental Values as Community Commitments -- 7.1 Public Goods and Communal Goods -- 7.2 The Advantages of Democratic Experimentalism -- 7.3 Environmental Problems as Problems of Cooperative Behavior -- 7.4 Discourse Ethics -- 7.5 Experimental Pluralism: Naturalism and Environmental Values -- Chapter 8: Sustainability and Our Obligations to Future Generations -- 8.1 Intertemporal Ethics -- 8.2 Strong versus Weak Sustainability -- 8.3 Philosophers and the Grand Simplification -- 8.4 Grandly Oversimplified? -- 8.5 Passmore and Shared Moral Communities -- 8.6 What We Owe the Future -- 8.7 The Logic of Intergenerational Obligation -- Chapter 9: Environmental Values and Community Goals -- 9.1 A Schematic Definition of Sustainability -- 9.2 A Catalog of Sustainability Values -- 9.3 Beyond the Fact-Value Divide -- 9.4 Choosing Indicators as Community Self-Definition -- Part III: Integrated Environmental Action -- Chapter 10: Improving the Decision Process -- 10.1 Decision Analysis and Community-Based Decision Making -- 10.2 What Does Not Work: The Red Book -- 10.3 Heading in the Right Direction: The Changing Field of Decision Science -- 10.4 Getting It Mostly Right: Understanding Risk -- 10.5 The Two Phases Revisited: Putting Multicriteria Analysis to Work -- Chapter 11: Disciplinary Stew -- 11.1 Beyond Towering -- 11.2 Philosophical Analysis and Policy Choice -- 11.3 Scale and Value: The Key to It All -- 11.4 Disciplinary Stew: The Prospects for an Integrated Environmental Science -- 11.5 Environmental Evaluation: A Fresh Start in the World of What-If -- Chapter 12: Integrated Environmental Analysis and Action -- 12.1 Conservation: Moral Crusade or Environmental Public Philosophy? -- 12.2 An Alternative: The Dutch System -- 12.3 EPA and Environmental Policy Today: A Report Card -- 12.4 Constitutive Values and Constitutional Environmentalism.

12.5 Problem-Solving Environmentalism -- 12.6 Seeking Convergence -- 12.7 Ecology and Opportunity -- Appendix Justifying the Method -- A.1 Philosophy's Abdication -- A.2 The Rise of Linguistic Philosophy: Its Inevitability and Meaning -- A.3 The Rise and Transformation of Logical Empiricism, aka Positivism -- A.4 Pragmatism: The New Way Forward -- A.5 Pragmatism and Environmental Policy -- A.6 Philosophy's Role: An Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.