Convergence and ecological restoration?: A counterexample

Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 185-195

  Katz, Eric ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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References (34)

1. Eric Katz and Lauren Oechsli, "Moving beyond Anthropocentrism: Environmental Ethics, Development, and the Amazon," Environmental Ethics 15 (1993): 49-59
2. Eric Katz, "Biodiversity and Ecological Justice," in Biodiversity and Landscape: A Paradox of Humanity, ed. K. C. Kim and R. D. Weaver (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 61-74
3. Eric Katz, "A Pragmatic Reconsideration of Anthropocen-trism," Environmental Ethics 21 (1999): 377-390.
4. Bryan G. Norton, "Conservation and Preservation: A Conceptual Rehabilitation," Environmental Ethics 8 (1986): 195-220; quote on p. 220.
5. Bryan G. Norton, Toward Unity among Environmentalists (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
6. See Bryan G. Norton, "Convergence and Contextualism: Some Clarifications and a Reply to Steverson," Environmental Ethics 19 (1997): 87-100 (reprinted in Chapter 3 in this volume)
7. Norton, "Convergence Corroborated: A Comment on Arne Naess on Wolf Policies," in Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy, ed. Nina Witoszek and Andrew Brennan (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Little - field, 1999
8. reprinted in Bryan G. Norton, Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 78-87.
9. Norton, "Convergence and Contextualism," p. 87 (orig.; p. 36 in this volume)
10. Norton, Searching for Sustainability, p. 78.
11. Norton, "Convergence and Contextualism," p. 99 (orig.; p. 46 in this volume)
12. Norton, Searching for Sustainability, p. 78.
13. Bryan G. Norton, Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. 508-510.
14. Norton, "Convergence and Contextualism," p. 99 (orig.; p. 47 in this volume)
15. Norton, Searching for Sustainability, p. 78.
16. Norton, "Convergence and Contextualism," p. 99 (orig.; p. 46 in this volume).
17. Norton, Searching for Sustainability, p. 81.
18. Norton, "Convergence and Contextualism," p. 100 (orig.; p. 47 in this volume)
19. Norton, Searching for Sustainability, pp. 81-82.
20. Norton, Toward Unity, p. 240.
21. See Steve Packard, "Just a Few Oddball Species: Restoration and Redesign of the Tallgrass Savanna," Restoration and Management Notes 6, no. 1 (Summer 1988): 13-22
22. I discuss Packard's work in the expanded version of "The Big Lie," reprinted in my book Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
23. Eric Katz, "The Big Lie: Human Restoration of Nature," Research in Philosophy and Technology 12 (1992): 231-241
24. A slightly different version of "The Big Lie" was published as "Restoration and Redesign: The Ethical Significance of Human Intervention in Nature," Restoration and Management Notes 9, no. 2 (Winter 1992): 90-96
25. See also Katz, "The Call of the Wild: The Struggle against Domination and the 'Technological Fix' of Nature," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 265-273
26. "Artefacts and Functions: A Note on the Value of Nature," Environmental Values 2 (1993): 223-232
27. "Imperialism and Environmentalism," Social Theory and Practice 21, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 271-285
28. These essays on the ethics of restoration are reprinted in Katz, Nature as Subject, pp. 93-146
29. Other discussions of restoration are: Katz, "The Problem of Ecological Restoration," Environmental Ethics 18 (1996): 222-224
30. "Another Look at Restoration: Technology and Artificial Nature," in Restoring Nature: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities, ed. Paul H. Gobster and R. Bruce Hull (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000), pp. 37-48
31. For critical commentary on my views, see Yeuk-Sze Lo, "Natural and Artifactual: Restored Nature as Subject," Environmental Ethics 21 (1999): 247-266
32. Andrew Light, "Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature: A Pragmatic Perspective" in Gobster and Hull, eds., Restoring Nature, pp. 49-70
33. Steven Vogel, "The Nature of Artifacts," Environmental Ethics 25 (2003): 149-168.
34. William James, Pragmatism, Lecture II (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1981), pp. 25-26.