Living Well Now and in the Future
Why Sustainability Matters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19992365 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Randall Curren (0000-0003-1619-5140), Randall R Curren, Ellen Pletcher Metzger (0000-0002-4882-3351), Ellen Metzger |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 282 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Living well now and in the future (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036009.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4242434408 |
| ISBN | 9780262036009 |
| Open Library | OL27234712M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to sustainability that does not simply synthesize diverse ideas about sustainability from a variety of fields, but is systematic, probing, and above all normatively clarifying. It aims to clarify the nature, forms, and value of sustainability, to survey the problems, catalogue the obstacles to achieving sustainability, identify the kinds of efforts needed to overcome those obstacles, and articulate an ethic of sustainability with lessons for governments, organizations, and individuals. Focusing on what is essential to living well, it outlines a theory of justice and just institutions that clarifies the normative core of sustainability: the long-term preservation of opportunities to live well. Having discussed the nature of just institutions, and workplaces, schools, and knowledge-producing institutions in particular, the book addresses the growth of complexity in societies and the costs and hazards of competition-driven socio-political complexity. It illustrates many of the key ideas through a trio of case studies pertaining to energy, water, and food, and it concludes with a vision and defence of education in sustainability. The book’s overarching argument is that unsustainability is primarily a problem of social coordination, and that effective and legitimate coordination rests on shared norms of cooperation, common understandings of the nature of the problems, and widely-distributed environmental self-governance as well as government action
Action (physics) · Argument (complex analysis) · Corporate governance · Economic Justice · Economics · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Government (linguistics) · Management · Management science · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainability organizations · Sustainability science · Value (mathematics) · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Ecology · Engineering · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Democracy · Interpersonal relations · Justice · Moral and ethical aspects
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The significance of A Theory of Justice for philosophy of education
Punishment and motivation in a just school community
Harnessing legal structures of virtue for planetary health
Moral self-determination
Nudging the Opportunity Structure
Patriotic Education in a Global Age
The case for egalitarian consciousness raising in higher education
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2019
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards
Ethics in the Anthropocene
Peters Redux
What higher education can bring to resilience
Sustainability and the common good
Patriotic Education
The intersection of environmental and sustainability education, and character education
Educational justice
| Citations per year | 2.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |