Sustainability Ethics and Sustainability Research

The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them. It also provides a methodological framework to integrate ethical and scientific analyses of sustainability issues, and explores the notion of a new type of self-reflective inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research. With this, the book aims to strengthen the overall ability of academics to contribute to the analysis and solution of sustainability issues in an inclusive and integrated way.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- PART I: Sustainability and Ethics.- 2. The Meaning of Sustainability.- 3. The Inherent Ethical Dimension of Sustainability - Toward a Relational Ethical Perspective.- 4. Limits and Potential of Traditional Moral Philosophy and Current Ethics - Some Arguments For the Need For a New Type of Sustainability Ethics.- 5. The Challenges of Sustainability Ethics.- PART II: Meta-structures and Sustainability.- 6. Sustainability, Institutions, and Patterns of Thought and Action.- 7. Meta-structures.- 8. The Impact of the Web of Meta-structures on the Sustainability Relations.- PART III: Toward a New Sustainability Ethics.- 9. The Relational Dimension of Sustainability Ethics and the Role of Individual Morality.- 10. The Structural Dimension of Sustainability Ethics.- PART IV: Toward an Encompassing Sustainability Research.- 11. The Need For a New Type of Sustainability Research.- 12. Inter- and Transdisciplinarity.- 13. Capabilities and Personal Identity of the Researcher.- 14. The Role of Philosophy for Sustainability Research.- 15. Conclusion.- Index.

Summary

The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them. It also provides a methodological framework to integrate ethical and scientific analyses of sustainability issues, and explores the notion of a new type of self-reflective inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research. With this, the book aims to strengthen the overall ability of academics to contribute to the analysis and solution of sustainability issues in an inclusive and integrated way.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Becker
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2013
• EAN: 9789400796973
• ISBN: 978-94-0-079697-3
• No. of pages: 142
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 9 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 262 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 142 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Ethics, Environment, Philosophy, Sustainable Development, Philosophy of Science, Technology: general issues, The environment, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary studies, Environmental Sciences, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Environment, general, Philosophy and science