"Environment as Discourse: Searching for Sustainable Development in Costa Rica"
Anja Nygren analyses the social and political discourses related to environment and sustainable development in Costa Rica.
Anja Nygren analyses the social and political discourses related to environment and sustainable development in Costa Rica.
Bryan G. Norton proposes the pragmatic conception of truth, anticipated by Henry David Thoreau and developed by C.S. Peirce and subsequent pragmatists, as a useful analogy for characterizing “sustainability.”
This guest editorial takes stock of what was achieved since the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio, and speculates on the results of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
Examining the concepts of “security” and “sustainability” Michael Redclift argues that, although the importance of the environment has been increasingly acknowledged since the 1970s, there has been a failure to incorporate other discourses surrounding “nature.”
In his paper, Charles C. Mueller sheds light on the economics of survival, a branch of ecological economics that stresses the preservation of the opportunities of future generations over an extended time horizon.
The article discusses how far the ecological state can go in pursuing sustainable development without intruding on democratic values. Focussing on social choice mechanisms, it draws the image of the ecological state as a “green fist in a velvet glove.”
In this article, Baylor L. Johnson argues that in a tragedy of the commons there is no reasonable expectation that individual, voluntary action will succeed.
In his article, Lawrence E. Johnson discusses the moral significance of future generations.
This analysis raises questions about the extent to which ecological economics has been able to influence real-world decisions and policy.
This article argues that in a risky world and a risk-averse society even under the assumptions of weak sustainability the circumstances under which different forms of capital may be substituted are limited.