Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice

Barry, Brian

doi:10.3167/004058197783593443

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“…e.g. Barry 1997) and this is certainly a merit. However, in regard to justice of opportunities and distributive justice the discussions take place without adequate reference to the overall remaining and available environmental potentials, resources, and ecosystem services.…”

Section: On Justicementioning

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Endangering the Natural Basis of Life Is Unjust: On the Status and Future of the Sustainability Discourse

Becker

Ewringmann

Faber

et al. 2015

Ethics, Policy & Environment

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe paper critically examines the status of the sustainability discourse and sustainability politics against the backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the natural basis of life is by itself a requirement of justice. However, the crucial role of the ecological dimension of sustainability has been neglected due to a problematic interpretation of the economic dimension, a limited understanding of justice, and an overemphasis of economic growth and growth politics. We propose to reposition the sustainability discourse and sustainability politics by prioritizing the long-term protection of the natural basis of life as the essential foundation of future development, welfare, and justice.JEL Classification I31, O40, Q01, Q5, Q57, A10, A13

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Section: On Justicementioning

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Endangering the Natural Basis of Life Is Unjust: On the Status and Future of the Sustainability Discourse

Becker

Ewringmann

Faber

et al. 2015

Ethics, Policy & Environment

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“…But this established tenet of sustainable development serves to emphasize the important role of (future) time as well as space within the constitution of all forms of citizenship (Barry, 2002). While often ignored within citizenship studies, the temporal frameworks within which rights and responsibilities are constructed, play a crucial role in defining the different rights and responsibilities of the citizen.…”

Section: Deconstructing the Sustainable Citizen In Walesmentioning

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Negotiating the Networks of Space, Time and Substance: A Geographical Perspective on the Sustainable Citizen

Bullen

Whitehead

2005

Citizenship Studies

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This paper provides a critical geographical analysis of the emerging ideals associated with sustainable citizenship. We argue that the principles behind sustainable citizenship force us to think through the full range of geographical factors which frame citizenship and yet which are routinely overlooked in both geographical and non-geographical work on the citizen. We take the sustainable citizen to be both an epistemological challenge to existing paradigms of citizenship and a contemporary national and international policy goal. As an epistemological category we claim that the very notion of a sustainable citizen destabilizes the spatial, temporal and material parameters upon which modern forms of citizenship are based. At the same time, however, we also consider the limitations associated with contemporary national and international attempts to create a more sustainable citizenry, arguing that such initiatives often belie the radical potential of thinking about citizenship in sustainable terms. We take as our empirical focus the recently implemented curriculum for global citizenship and sustainable development being enacted in Welsh schools. Drawing on interviews carried out with education officials, teachers and students, we explore what sustainable citizenship means and the opportunities and challenges it faces as a political project.

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“…Our focus is mainly on temporal justice, since the latter gives rise to the most intricate issues, but as we will argue in Section 3.1 (building on Barry [25]), temporal and spatial justice are intertwined. In discussions on what temporal justice exactly entails, two challenges are particularly striking.…”

Section: Sustainability As a Moral Frameworkmentioning

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“…Barry argues that for understanding our relations with future generations (and the extent of possible duties we have) we should start asking about the relations among the contemporaries and investigate if and how they could be extended into the future. The premise he is starting from is the fundamental equality of human beings, which leads him to define the "core concept of sustainability" as follows: "there is some X whose value should be maintained, in as far as it lies within our power to do so, into the indefinite future" ( [25], p. 50). On the basis of the idea that a fundamental characteristic of human beings is "their ability to form their own conception of the good life", Barry defines X as "the opportunity to live good lives according to their conception of what constitutes a good life" ( [25], p. 52).…”

Section: What Should Be Sustained and Why Should We Sustain It?mentioning

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“…The premise he is starting from is the fundamental equality of human beings, which leads him to define the "core concept of sustainability" as follows: "there is some X whose value should be maintained, in as far as it lies within our power to do so, into the indefinite future" ( [25], p. 50). On the basis of the idea that a fundamental characteristic of human beings is "their ability to form their own conception of the good life", Barry defines X as "the opportunity to live good lives according to their conception of what constitutes a good life" ( [25], p. 52). Sustainability should then be understood as the requirement for us to provide future generations with such opportunities.…”

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Sustainability, Ethics and Nuclear Energy: Escaping the Dichotomy

Kermisch

Taebi

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:In this paper we suggest considering sustainability as a moral framework based on social justice, which can be used to evaluate technological choices. In order to make sustainability applicable to discussions of nuclear energy production and waste management, we focus on three key ethical questions, namely: (i) what should be sustained; (ii) why should we sustain it; and (iii) for whom should we sustain it. This leads us to conceptualize the notion of sustainability as a set of values, including safety, security, environmental benevolence, resource durability, and economic viability of the technology. The practical usefulness of sustainability as a moral framework is highlighted by demonstrating how it is applicable for understanding intergenerational dilemmas-between present and future generations, but also among different future generations-related to nuclear fuel cycles and radioactive waste management.

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Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice

Cited by 104 publications

References 3 publications

Endangering the Natural Basis of Life Is Unjust: On the Status and Future of the Sustainability Discourse

Endangering the Natural Basis of Life Is Unjust: On the Status and Future of the Sustainability Discourse

Negotiating the Networks of Space, Time and Substance: A Geographical Perspective on the Sustainable Citizen

Sustainability, Ethics and Nuclear Energy: Escaping the Dichotomy

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