"Future Generations and Environmental Ethics"
In his article, Lawrence E. Johnson discusses the moral significance of future generations.
Aliases:
sustained, Nachhaltigkeit, sustainable development
sustainability
"Towards Global Environmental Values: Lessons from Western and Eastern Experience"
Philip Sarre argues that new environmental values are needed as the advanced industrial economy becomes global.
"Pragmatism, Adaptive Management, and Sustainability"
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.”
"ISEW. The 'Debunking' Interpretation and the Person-in-Community Paradox: Comment on Rafael Ziegler"
Reply to article “Political Perception and Ensemble of Macro Objectives and Measures: The Paradox of the Index for Sustainable Economic Welfare” by Rafael Ziegler in Environmental Values 16, no.1, 43–60.
"Discussion of Wilfred Beckerman's article 'Sustainable Development: Is it a Useful Concept?'"
Herman Daly, Michael Jacobs, and Henryk Skolimowski respond to Wilfred Beckerman’s article “Sustainable Development: Is it a Useful Concept?” Environmental Values 3, 3 (1994): 191–209.
"Environmental Quality and the Quality of our Way of Life"
Jan J. Boersema defends the proposition that the limited progress made with respect to the environment could be due to a potential conflict between “quality” and sustainable development.
"How Would you Like your 'Sustainability,' Sir? Weak or Strong? A Reply to my Critics"
Wilfred Beckerman responds to the Jacobs and Daly criticisms of his earlier article in the same journal criticising the concept of “sustainable development.”
"The Precautionary Principle in Contemporary Environmental Politics"
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.
Prodigality and Sustainability: The Natural Sciences and the Environment
Over time, the peoples living in Latin America’s diverse landscapes have developed complex and varied ways of understanding the world around them. For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the main goal of the sciences was to keep Latin America’s “prodigal” landscapes as productive as possible. Since the mid-twentieth century, a new countercurrent has emerged, which focuses on using science to conserve biological diversity, and to promote sustainability.
“But where the danger lies, also grows the saving power”: Reflections on Exploitation and Sustainability
This article looks at the discovery and storming of the Americas in relation to narratives of sustainability.