The Notion of sustainability and its normative implications
By: Gunnar Skirbekk (ed.).
Contributors: Skirbekk, Gunnar.
Publisher: Scandinavian University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oslo, Norway
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Sustainable development.
Description: The notion of sustainability is interdisciplinary, requiring more than multidisciplinary research, and normative, requiring ongoing discussion about ethical priorities. Hence, the authors of this anthology recommend improved interdisciplinary collaboration and intensified public discussion about sustainability. By such admittedly fallible procedures we should try, again and again, to avoid or rectify instances of unsustainability. Further, the authors argue in favour of reduced material consumption, an ideal of 'good life', and gradualistic obligations toward non-human beings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.