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Norton, Bryan G.

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    Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Debate and Book Signing
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-11-11) Brown, Marilyn A. ; Sovacool, Benjamin K. ; Curry, Judith A. ; McGrath, Robert T. ; Norton, Bryan G. ; Orlando, Thomas M. ; Deitchman, Benjamin
    Four faculty at Georgia Tech participated in a debate focusing on the theses of the newly published textbook (Climate Change and Global Energy Security) coauthored by Marilyn Brown (Georgia Tech) and Benjamin Sovacool (Vermont Law School). The book submits that our world already has most of the sustainable energy technologies it needs to do this, but it faces a system of reinforcing barriers that support incumbent technologies, handicap innovation, and prevent change.
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    Leopold, Hadley, and Darwin: Darwinian Epistemology, Truth and Right
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-04) Norton, Bryan G.
    It has been argued in this journal (Callicott, et.al., 2009) that the evidence advanced that Aldo Leopold was influenced by American Pragmatism is "imaginary," and that apparent textual evidence that Leopold learned key ideas from A.T. Hadley, President of Yale University and a self-avowed Pragmatist, can be explained away. It is shown that Callicott, et. al. misunderstand pragmatism, misunderstand what environmental pragmatists have attributed to Leopold, fail to understand either the context or the internal argument of Leopold’s "Conservation as a Moral Issue." Consequently, they miss important contributions that Leopold made to the philosophy of conservation.
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    Beyond Value Neutrality: An Alternative to Monetary Monism in Ecological Economics
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-10) Norton, Bryan G.
    Ecological Economics has developed as a "transdisciplinary science," but it has not taken significant steps toward a truly integrated process of evaluating anthropogenic ecological change. The emerging dominance within ecological economics of the movement to monetize "ecological services," when combined with the already well-entrenched dominance of contingent pricing as a means to evaluate impacts on amenities, has created a "monistic" approach to valuation studies. It is argued that this monistic approach to evaluating anthropogenic impacts is inconsistent with a sophisticated conception of ecology as a complex science that rests on shifting metaphors. An alternative, pluralistic and iterative approach to valuation of anthropogenic ecological change is proposed
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    Designing Management Strategies that Integrate Stakeholder Beliefs and Scientific Models: A Case Study of Lake Lanier
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999-03) Coffin, Sarah ; Fath, Brian ; Beck, M. B. ; Norton, Bryan G. ; Steinemann, Anne
    This work focuses on the role of stakeholder involvement in water resources decision making. It builds upon a methodology developed for integrating stakeholder beliefs and preferences with scientific modeling of lake ecosystem processes, and is part of a larger study involving the application of integrated assessment models to water resource management. We identify four different management practices - means, ends, scenarios, and targeted scenarios -- and examine their strengths and weaknesses. This element of the project studies types of lake management at Lake Sidney Lanier. It also explores the benefits of stakeholder involvement in management of an impounded water source facing rapid development pressures. Inclusion of local community values into this modeling framework allows for a more place-based approach in the decision-making process.
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    Integrating Community Values into Scientific Models
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999-03) Fath, Brian ; Beck, M. B. ; Coffin, Sarah ; Norton, Bryan G. ; Steinemann, Anne
    In this project, we develop a novel methodology for integrating stakeholder knowledge and preferences with a set of constituent hypotheses regarding basic biological, hydrological, and chemical ecosystem processes. Our approach, an extension of regionalized sensitivity analysis (RSA) - a method to determine the sensitivity of model parameters within a bounded rangelinks qualitative community values with quantitative scientific models. The result will be a general prototype mechanism for integrated assessment, which can inform policy recommendations for improving water quality in the case study, Lake Sidney Lanier.
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    Multi-criteria, dynamic & place-based approach to ecosystem valuation
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998) Norton, Bryan G.