Gabriela-Lucia Sabau

Critical Realism and the Objective Value of Sustainability (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical and Ethical Approaches

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses a critical realist approach within a transdisciplinary theoretical framework to examine how sustainability objectively occurs in the natural world and in society. Of interest to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, environmental philosophy and ethics, philosophy of science, ecological economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003855293
• Artikelnr.: 69747875

Autorenporträt

Gabriela-Lucia Sabau is Honorary Research Professor of economics and environmental studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada. Her research interests are sustainability and sustainable development fuelled by scientific knowledge and value judgements; unjust un-economic growth; demand-side management of water resources; sustainable management of fisheries with a focus on small-scale fisheries; and assessing the potential for agro-ecological transition in Newfoundland and Labrador's agriculture. Gabriela co-founded MUN Grenfell Campus's first PhD program in Transdisciplinary Sustainability (2019) and continues to derive inspiration from the students she supervises in the program.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. What is Sustainability? 2. Searching for the Truth: Research Methods 3. Sustainability as Objective Physical Reality 4. Restoring Sustainability as Objective Social Reality 5. Sustainability and What Really Matters 6. Sustainability as Justice: Beyond Distributive Justice 7. Sustainability as Freedom 8. Who is the Sustainer? Conclusion