Uniformitarianism, incrementalism, and reformism are similar concepts. Logical incrementalism implies that the steps in the process are sensible. Much of environmental policy to date has been associated with the term Disjointed Incrementalism. James Brian Quinn (1978) developed an approach that he called "logical incrementalism". Incrementalism is commonly employed in politics, engineering, software design, planning and industry. The first of these schools is Lindblom's incrementalism.