Environmental Values in American Culture Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
	Measures of American Environmentalism	3
	What Is Environmentalism?	8
	Our Approach: Models and Variation, Beliefs and Values	10
	Non-Western Models of the Environment	13
	Structure of the Book	15
2	Background	17
	Our Anthropological Methods	17
	Global Environmental Changes	24
3	Cultural Models of Nature	39
	Model of Human Reliance on a Limited World	40
	Models of Nature as Interdependent, Balanced, and Unpredictable	43
	Models of the Causes of Environmental Concern	53
	Origins of Cultural Models of Nature	60
4	Cultural Models of Weather and the Atmosphere	63
	Global Warming Incorporated into Existing Concepts	63
	Perceptions of Weather	77
5	Environmental Values	87
	Religious and Spiritual Values	89
	Anthropocentric Values	95
	Biocentric Values	106
6	Cultural Models and Policy Reasoning	117
	Volunteered Policies	118
	Post-briefing Policy Discussion	126
	Models of Institutions	153
7	Case Studies of Influential Specialists	163
	Why Pick Specialists?	164
	Congressional Staff	165
	Advocates	176
8	Patterns of Agreement and Disagreement	189
	Patterns of Agreement	189
	Expected versus Actual Patterns of Agreement	197
	Consensus Beliefs and Values	202
	Points of Dissension	203
	Variation and Environmental Groups	207
9	Implications of Our Findings	213
	Findings	214
	Is the United States Unusual?	216
	General and Theoretical Questions	217
	Practical Advice	221
	Appendix A: How We Gathered and Analyzed the Data	227
	Appendix B: Informant Demographics	239
	Appendix C: Interview Protocol and Survey Questionnaire	247
	Appendix D: Case Studies of Citizens	271
	Notes	285
	References	297
	Index	313