A groundbreaking contribution to a central debate in environmentalism

Acknowledgments PART I Introduction 1. Unity among Environmentalists? Debating the Values-Policy Link in Environmental Ethics PART II The Convergence Hypothesis Debate in Environmental Ethics: The First Wave 2. Contextualism and Norton's Convergence Hypothesis 3. Convergence and Contextualism: Some Clarifications and a Reply to Steverson 4. Why Norton's Approach Is Insufficient for Environmental Ethics 5. Convergence in Environmental Values: An Empirical and Conceptual Defense 6. The Relevance of Environmental Ethical Theories for Policy Making PART III Expanding the Discussion: The Convergence Hypothesis Debate Today 7. Converging versus Reconstituting Environmental Ethics 8. Environmental Ethics and Future Generations 9. The Convergence Hypothesis Falsified: Implicit Intrinsic Value, Operational Rights, and De Facto Standing in the Endangered Species Act 10. Convergence in an Agrarian Key 11. Convergence and Ecological Restoration: A Counterexample 12. Does a Public Environmental Philosophy Need a Convergence Hypothesis? 13. The Importance of Creating an Applied Environmental Ethics: Lessons Learned from Climate Change 14. Who Is Converging with Whom? An Open Letter to Professor Bryan Norton from a Policy Wonk PART IV Reply by Bryan G. Norton 15. Convergence and Divergence: The Convergence Hypothesis Twenty Years Later Contributors Notes Index