The Justice Dimension of Sustainability: A Systematic and General Conceptual Framework

Stumpf, Klara Helene; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Becker, Christian; Sievers-Glotzbach, Stefanie

doi:10.3390/su7067438

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“…Such arguments that refer to moral rights and duties are subsumed under the category Justice by Eser et al (2014) (see also Stumpf et al 2015). Within this broad category, they further discriminate between three dimensions of justice: First, justice within the current generation (intra-generational justice), where the unequal distribution of environmental burdens and benefits has long been the focus of the environmental justice-movement (Schlossberg 2007;Mohai et al 2009).…”

Section: A Typology Of Ethical Reasoning: Prudence Justice and The Gmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a better understanding of values in sustainability transformations: ethical perspectives on landscape stewardship

Bieling

Eser²,

Plieninger

2020

Ecosystems and People

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Values are considered an essential but ill-defined element in sustainability transformations. This perspective article explores: What kinds of values guide thinking and action in the context of caring for nature and engaging for landscape sustainability? How do these different values relate to each other? To frame our study, we discuss three basic principles in ethical reasoning. Prudence highlights the instrumental values of nature. Justice puts general moral obligations at the center. The Good Life focusses on relational values that are important to people in terms of personal life-goals. We show that all three types of values are expressed in landscape stewardship conceptualizations. As two case studies demonstrate, the relevance of these ethical claims may diverge among actors, which can lead to different goals and pathways. It is therefore crucial to develop multifaceted strategies that are tailored to the complexity of values at stake. A lack of communication on ethical claims may result in conflict and blockade of sustainability initiatives. For harnessing the full potential of values for sustainability transformations, the specific ethical dimensions of reasoning need to be made explicit and partial interests and common goods and rights need to be distinguished as arguments with different levels of legitimacy and power.

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Section: A Typology Of Ethical Reasoning: Prudence Justice and The Gmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a better understanding of values in sustainability transformations: ethical perspectives on landscape stewardship

Bieling

Eser²,

Plieninger

2020

Ecosystems and People

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“…Justice is considered a good candidate for the specification of the normative dimension of sustainability, as justice is well suited to address concerns of limits, scarcities, and conflicts. 21 However, as far as the author knows, for example, the problem of environmental hazards in a bankruptcy estate still exists. 22 In many countries, legislators have been unable to resolve the problem.…”

Section: Justice and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Insolvency proceedings from a sustainability perspective

Linna

2019

Intl Insolvency Rev

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Sustainability is a wide concept including environmental, economic, social/culture, and political dimensions. Currently, sustainability research is a rich scientific discipline producing a significant number of research papers. However, sustainability in the context of insolvency proceedings has attracted little research compared with, for example, how much attention corporate social responsibility has received in company law research. This article studies sustainability in the context of liquidation and restructuring proceedings and the preservation of different kinds of resources (natural, manufactured, human, and social capital) in insolvency procedures. The purpose of insolvency proceedings may prevent the full implementation of sustainability. In bankruptcy, the administrator must maximise the selling price for creditor satisfaction, and there are few possibilities to promote sustainability. When facing an acute environmental hazard, in the name of public interest, a bankruptcy estate with assets usually has to act unless the law stipulates that society is responsible for taking care of the problem. In restructuring proceedings, the main purpose is to continue the debtor's business. It depends on the markets how sustainable the debtor company must be to achieve profitability. If becoming a profitable company in a “green” or otherwise sustainable market requires costly efforts, creditors' interests may require the sale of the assets. The author views through sustainability lenses EU Restructuring and insolvency Directive (2019) and finds there is not much of a sustainability approach included.

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“…Sustainability is (also) an ethical or normative concept [101,112], e.g., based on a systemic extension of moral considerability to the ecological communities that we are part of [113], and social action towards sustainability therefore corresponds to moral action. Hence the work on moral grounds of action has direct implications for our discussion of rationales for sustainability transformation.…”

Section: Toward a Reflexive Rationalitymentioning

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Performance versus Values in Sustainability Transformation of Food Systems

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Abstract:Questions have been raised on what role the knowledge provided by sustainability science actually plays in the transition to sustainability and what role it may play in the future. In this paper we investigate different approaches to sustainability transformation of food systems by analyzing the rationale behind transformative acts-the ground that the direct agents of change act upon-and how the type of rationale is connected to the role of research and how the agents of change are involved. To do this we employ Max Weber's distinction between instrumental rationality and value-rationality in social action. In particular, we compare two different approaches to the role of research in sustainability transformation: (1) Performance-based approaches that measure performance and set up sustainability indicator targets and benchmarks to motivate the agents in the food system to change; (2) Values-based approaches that aim at communicating and mediating sustainability values to enable coordinated and cooperative action to transform the food system. We identify their respective strengths and weaknesses based on a cross-case analysis of four cases, and propose that the two approaches, like Weber's two types of rationality, are complementary-because they are based on complementary observer stances-and that an optimal in-between approach therefore cannot be found. However, there are options for reflexive learning by observing one perspective-and its possible blind spots-from the vantage point of the other, so we suggest that new strategies for sustainability transformation can be found based on reflexive rationality as a third and distinct type of rationality.Keywords: complementarity; food systems; perspectives; rationality; sustainability assessment; sustainability transformation; sustainability transition; sustainability science "Like any action, social action may be determined as: (1) instrumentally rational through expectations of the behavior of objects in the environment and of other human beings, and the use of these expectations as "conditions" or "means" to attain one's own rationally pursued and calculated ends; (2) value-rational through a conscious belief in

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The Justice Dimension of Sustainability: A Systematic and General Conceptual Framework

Cited by 36 publications

References 114 publications

Towards a better understanding of values in sustainability transformations: ethical perspectives on landscape stewardship

Towards a better understanding of values in sustainability transformations: ethical perspectives on landscape stewardship

Insolvency proceedings from a sustainability perspective

Performance versus Values in Sustainability Transformation of Food Systems

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