The end of sustainability

Kaufman, Frederik

doi:10.1504/ijssoc.2009.028908

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“…The call for individual action requires a major change in the nutritional paradigm and as shown in other cases of excessive consumerism (Gorobets, 2011;Kennedy and Krogman, 2008;Kaufman, 2009), a number of policies can be developed to address this at personal and governmental levels. Table 3 depicts elements of this change and proposes a new ethics model in support of flexitarianism and personal empowerment.…”

Section: Possible Policy Pathwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flexitarianism: a more moral dietary option

Raphaely

2014

IJSSOC

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It is morally impossible to justify the power wielded by the livestock industry. This paper describes the human, ecological and animal welfare concerns caused by excessive meat production and consumption including climate change, water depletion and degradation, land misappropriation and degradation, rainforest destruction, biodiversity & rapid species loss and the significant threats and challenges presented to human health and wellbeing. It offers flexitarianism (flexible or part-time vegetarianism) as a personal opportunity and moral responsibility to combat the destructive duplicity of the global livestock megamachine. Through a personal nutritional paradigm shift and resulting food choices individuals can reclaim the possibility of a more sustainable world and global society.

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Section: Possible Policy Pathwaysmentioning

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Flexitarianism: a more moral dietary option

Raphaely

2014

IJSSOC

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“…The various path-breaking sustainability statements, such as those by Thomas Jefferson: "Then I say the Earth belongs to each generation during its course, fully and in its right no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its existence" (September 6, 1789) and much later the UN Brundtland Commission's [4] of "Meet the current needs without destroying the ability of future generations to meet theirs." are very qualitative and tolerate any population growth and unsustainable behavior by future generations, and excludes concern about destruction of the ability of the less fortunate members of the current generation to meet their reasonable needs (e.g., [5,6]). Work is progressing rapidly to characterize sustainability as a science, and to that end quantitative scientific definitions of its metrics and their mathematical development, aggregation, and use are evolving and gradually becoming a part of standards and regulations (e.g., , [5,[7][8][9][10][11][12]).…”

Section: Introduction and Motivation 1the Sustainability Imperative mentioning

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Sustainability ethics and metrics: Strategies for damage control and prevention

Lior

2013

JEAM

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It is generally and increasingly believed that humanity's survival depends on adoption of sustainable development practices, which are based on adequate satisfaction of quantitatively defined and interrelated economical, environmental and social criteria. One can then argue that sustainable development has a meta-ethical foundation, a definition of right and wrong paths stemming from what one might consider a Universal Truth that is humanity's desire to survive. One finds that "sustainability" is very much in vogue as a positive attribute, and more and more extensively used erratically and often improperly and even fraudulently over the entire social spectrum. Since sustainability is of vital importance to our survival, using its terminology in vain diminishes its vitally important value by desensitizing society and sowing distrust. Importantly, unethical usage of sustainability concepts causes much harm to the development of credible sustainability science. This paper briefly defines sustainability and its quantitative metrics, presents examples of ongoing ethical and unethical use of the concept, and recommends a path towards damage control that includes the development of internationally acceptable standards for that vital concept.

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“…Jacobs [1] believed that to a sustainable city embraces its past in future planning. The past gives a sense of belonging to a society, balancing progressive development with conservation of cultural values within its society [2,3]. Cultural values of a society are strongly associated with the physical structures, particularly the buildings [4,5].…”

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Evaluating stakeholders preferences: reconciling heritage and sustainability

Zawawi

Abdullah

2011

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The subsistence of traditional shophouse is threatened by demolition, unsympathetic changes and rapid redevelopment pace. Most often, the decisions pertaining to redevelopment of this built heritage are based on guidelines unrepresentative of the multi-cultural society in Malaysia. Involvement of direct stakeholders, namely owners and tenants, are minimal in the decision process. This paper provides an objective evaluation for the traditional shophouse redevelopment, incorporating multiple stakeholders' preferences. It focuses on exploring conflicts and values of the stakeholders using Multiple Criteria Analysis, or MCA technique. Using a common MCA technique, the Analytical Hierarchy Process, or AHP, stakeholders' preferences on a set of criteria for redevelopment decision are derived and compared. It is found that stakeholders' preferences are dissimilar even within their homogenous groups. This study contributes to discovering the potential of MCA to increase transparency in redevelopment decisions involving built heritage and multiple stakeholders.

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The end of sustainability

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Flexitarianism: a more moral dietary option

Flexitarianism: a more moral dietary option

Sustainability ethics and metrics: Strategies for damage control and prevention

Evaluating stakeholders preferences: reconciling heritage and sustainability

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