Sustainability ethics and sustainability research
By: Christian U. Becker
Publisher: Springer.; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9789400722859; 9789400722842; 9781283455510
Subjects: Sustainability; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The meaning of sustainability; title: 3. The inherent ethical dimension of sustainability; title: toward a relational ethical perspective; title: 4. Limits and potential of traditional moral philosophy and current ethics; title: some arguments for the need for a new type of sustainability ethics; title: 5. The challenge of sustainability ethics; title: 6. Sustainability, institutions, and patterns of thought and action; title: 7. Meta-structures; title: 8. The impact of the web of meta-structures on the sustainability relations; title: 9. The relational dimension of sustainability ethics and the role of individual morality; title: 10. The structural dimension of sustainability ethics; title: 11. The need for a new type of sustainability research; title: 12. Inter- and transdisciplinarity; title: 13. Capabilities and personal identity of the researcher; title: 14. The role of philosophy for sustainability research; title: 15. Conclusion.