Sustainability Ethics and Sustainability Research [Hardcover]

The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them. It also provides a methodological framework to integrate ethical and scientific analyses of sustainability issues, and explores the notion of a new type of self-reflective inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research. With this, the book aims to strengthen the overall ability of academics to contribute to the analysis and solution of sustainability issues in an inclusive and integrated way.

1. Introduction

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PART I: Sustainability and Ethics

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2. The Meaning of Sustainability

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3. The Inherent Ethical Dimension of Sustainability  Toward a Relational Ethical Perspective

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4. Limits and Potential of Traditional Moral Philosophy and Current Ethics  Some Arguments For the Need For a New Type of Sustainability Ethics

4.1 The Limits of Utilitarianism and Deontology

4.2 Environmental Ethics and Sustainability Ethics

4.3 Virtue Ethics and Ethics of Care: The Ethical Relevance of Relationships

4.4 The Ethical Relevance of Social Structures and Institutions

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5. The Challenges of Sustainability Ethics

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PART II: Meta-structures and Sustainability

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6. Sustainability, Institutions, and Patterns of Thought and Action

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7. Meta-structures

7.1 Science As a Meta-structure

7.2 Technology As a Meta-structure

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