"Ecologically Sustainable Rural Development and the Difficulty of Social Change"
Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.
Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.
Diane Saxe argues that a stronger “fiduciary” duty is required where corporations take risks with the environment and that economic activities must move from open to closed (sustainable) systems.
The anthropocentric ethic implicit in all solutions regarding global commons is contrasted with the ecocentric one which may be necessary to preserve the biosphere in the future.
An evolutionary analysis of history suggests that technology and morality can and will respond to a clearly perceived future threat to civilization. But will our response be fast enough?
Wilfred Beckerman responds to the Jacobs and Daly criticisms of his earlier article in the same journal criticising the concept of “sustainable development.”
Timothy O’Riordan and Andrew Jordan discuss the place of the precautionary principle in contemporary environmental politics, arguing that its future looks promising but not assured.
I.G. Simmons examines the basic thesis that environmental values must spring from the economic relations of human societies.
Giuseppe Munda presents a systematic discussion, mainly for non-economists, on economic approaches to the concept of sustainable development.
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.”