Table of Contents

I Sustainability in Relation to Science, Law, and Ethics.- 1 The Concept of Sustainability: A Critical Approach.- 2 Sustainability and Environmental Ethics.- 3 Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation Concept.- 4 Investigating Individual Motives for Environmental Action: Lexicographic Preferences, Beliefs and Attitudes.- 5 Biocentrism and Ecological Integrity.- 6 Burden of Proof Requirements and Environmental Sustainability: Science, Public Policy, and Ethics.- II Sustainability and Ecological Integrity: Problems in Natural Resources.- 7 Water Resources: Agriculture, the Environment, and Ethics.- 8 Canada’s Model Forest Program: The Manitoba Experience.- 9 The Ratchet Effect.- 10 Sustaining World Fisheries Resources: An Ethical Dilemma.- 11 Traditional Sustainability: A Case Study of Floodplain Fisheries Management in West Africa.- III Approaches to Public Policy.- 12 The Federal Ecosystem Management Initiative in the United States.- 13 Sustainability, Growth and Distributive Justice: Questioning Environmental Absolutism.- 14 Environmental Sustainability in Agriculture: Bioethical and Religious Arguments Against Carnivory.- 15 Why We Need a Non-Anthropocentric Environmental Evaluation of Technology for Public Policy.- 16 Coping With 2050.