1. The Justice Dimension of Sustainability: A Systematic and General Conceptual Framework
- Author
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Stefan Baumgärtner, Christian U. Becker, Klara Helene Stumpf, and Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach
- Subjects
sustainability justice ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Social sustainability ,TJ807-830 ,Context (language use) ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,TD194-195 ,sustainability science ,Renewable energy sources ,jel:Q ,GE1-350 ,ontology ,Sociology ,Justice (ethics) ,Sustainability organizations ,Dimension (data warehouse) ,conceptual structure of justice ,epistemology ,sustainability ethics ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Management science ,Sustainability science ,jel:Q0 ,Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics ,jel:Q2 ,jel:Q3 ,jel:Q5 ,Epistemology ,Environmental sciences ,Conceptual framework ,jel:O13 ,Sustainability ,Ontology ,Normative ,jel:Q56 - Abstract
We discuss how the normative dimension of sustainability can be captured in terms of justice. We (i) identify the core characteristics of the concept of sustainability and discuss underlying ethical, ontological and epistemological assumptions, (ii) introduce a general conceptual structure of justice for the analysis and comparison of different conceptions of justice, and (iii) employ this conceptual structure to determine the specific characteristics and challenges of justice in the context of sustainability. We demonstrate that sustainability raises specific and partly new challenges of justice regarding the community of justice, the judicandum, the informational base, the principles, and the instruments of justice.
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- 2015