The Politics of Sustainability (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical perspectives
Redaktion: Birnbacher, Dieter; Thorseth, May

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the motivational and institutional obstacles standing in the way of a consistent politics of sustainability and to look for strategies to overcome them. It is an interdisciplinary contribution to the joint effort to meet the theoretical and practical challenges posed by climate change and other impending global perils.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317521297
• Artikelnr.: 42886726

Autorenporträt

Dieter Birnbacher is Professor of Philosophy at University of Düsseldorf, Germany May Thorseth is Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Overview 1. Origin and objects of the volumePart 2 Institutional and
individual determinants of non-sustainable 2. Climate change and
motivation: The obstacle from conflicting perspectives behaviour3. The
liberal tragedy of the Commons. The deficiency of democracy in changing
climate 4. Institutional obstacles to Sustainable Governance of natural
resources: a deliberative approach 5. Ideology and practice of the 'Green
Economy' - world views shaping science and politics Part 3 Visions of the
future, new orientations 6. Some moral pragmatics of climate change 7.
Climate justice, motivation and harm 8. We can't, we wont. Climate justice
for the unable and unwilling 9. Is democracy an obstacle to ecological
change? 10. Sustainable action and 'moral corruption' Part 4 Individual and
institutional roads to sustainability 11. Libertarian Paternalism,
sustainable self-binding and bounded freedom 12. The 'Missing Link':
Polarization and the need for 'Trial by Jury' decision procedures 13. An
extended separation of powers model - the theoretical basis for the
representation of future generations