Bryan Norton
Professor, School of Public Policy
School of Public Policy
School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
685 Cherry Street
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: (404) 635-0766
Fax: (404) 385-0504
Email: bryan.norton@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Website: www.spp.gatech.edu/faculty/faculty/bnorton.php
Biographical Statement:
Bryan Norton is Professor in the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Why Preserve Natural Variety? (Princeton University Press, 1987), Toward Unity Among Environmentalists (Oxford University Press, 1991), Searching for Sustainability (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Management (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Norton has contributed to journals in several fields and has served on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the US EPA Science Advisory Board, and two terms as a member of the Governing Board of the Society for Conservation Biology. His current research concentrates on sustainability theory and on spatio-temporal scaling of environmental problems. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Defenders of Wildlife from 1994-2005.
Publications related to Conservation Psychology:
Norton, B.G. (2005). Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management. University of Chicago Press.
Norton, B. G. (2003). Searching for Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Philosophy of Conservation Biology. Cambridge University Press. In Cambridge University’s series in the Philosophy of Biology, Series Editor, Michael Ruse.
Norton, B. G., & Steinemann, A. (2002). Environmental values and adaptive management. Environmental Values, 10(4), 473-506.
Norton, B.G., Costanza, R., & Bishop, R. (1998), The evolution of preferences: Why ‘sovereign’ preferences may not lead to sustainable policies and what to do about it. Ecologic Economics, 4, 193-212.
Norton, B. G., & Hannon, B. (1998). Democracy and sense of place: Values in environmental policy. In A. Light and J. Smith (Eds.), Philosophy and geography III. New York, NY: Rowman and Littefield.
Norton, B. G., & Hannon, B. (1997). Environmental values: A place-based theory. Environmental Ethics, 19(3), 227-245.
Norton, B.G., Hutchins, M., Stevens, E. & Maple, T. (1995, 1996). Ethics on the Ark: Zoos, Wildlife Conservation, and Animal Welfare Co-Editor, author of “General Introduction”, Caring for Nature: A Broader Look a Animal Stewardship, and with J.Wuichet, “Differing Conceptions of Animal Welfare” Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Norton, B.G. (1995). Ecological risk assessment: Toward a broader analytic framework. In R. Cotherne, (Ed.) Handbook on Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics, 155-176. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers.
Norton, B.G. (1994). On what we should save: The role of culture in determining conservation targets. In P.L. Forey, C.J. Humphries, & R.I. Vane-Wright (Eds.), Systematics and Conservation Evaluation, 23-40, Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press for the Systematics Association.
Norton, B.G. (1991, 1993). Toward Unity Among Environmentalists. Oxford University Press.
Norton, B.G. (1987, 1989). Why Preserve Natural Variety? Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Research Interests:
Sustainability theory
Biodiversity policy
Perception of scale in environmental problem formulation
Professional Affiliations:
Zoo Atlanta
Associated Scientist
