Critical Realism and the Objective Value of Sustainability - Philosophical and Ethical Approaches

This book uses a critical realist approach within a transdisciplinary theoretical framework to examine how sustainability objectively occurs in the natural world and in society. Of interest to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, environmental philosophy and ethics, philosophy of science, ecological economics.

List of contents

Introduction 1. What is Sustainability? 2. Searching for the Truth: Research Methods 3. Sustainability as Objective Physical Reality 4. Restoring Sustainability as Objective Social Reality 5. Sustainability and What Really Matters 6. Sustainability as Justice: Beyond Distributive Justice 7. Sustainability as Freedom 8. Who is the Sustainer? Conclusion

About the author

Gabriela-Lucia Sabau is Honorary Research Professor of economics and environmental studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada. Her research interests are sustainability and sustainable development fuelled by scientific knowledge and value judgements; unjust un-economic growth; demand-side management of water resources; sustainable management of fisheries with a focus on small-scale fisheries; and assessing the potential for agro-ecological transition in Newfoundland and Labrador's agriculture. Gabriela co-founded MUN Grenfell Campus's first PhD program in Transdisciplinary Sustainability (2019) and continues to derive inspiration from the students she supervises in the program.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriela-Lucia Sabau
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032310022
• ISBN: 978-1-032-31002-2
• No. of pages: 186
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Environmental Ethics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; NATURE / Essays, NATURE / Ecology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Philosophy of Science, Applied ecology, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmentalist thought and ideology