Developpement Durable Et Principes De Développement Legitimite

Bibliographic Data

ID3102945
AuthorsOlivier Godard (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume42
Issue3
Pages375-402
Publication date2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/05390184030423004
OpenAlexW2060250961
LanguageFR
Citations received7
References cited14

Besides its clearly normative value, the idea of sustainability reflects a number of needs and absences: the unsustainable character of present patterns of development, the question of explicit representation of beings such as coming generations, absent from the scenes where the future is being committed, confession of the legitimacy trouble touching environmental policies facing development stakes, and, as a more intimate disillusion, the discovery that the sustainability idea cannot stand for an alternative legitimacy principle. After having shown how sustainability passed several of the requirements characteristic of a principle of legitimacy, the article identifies the sources of its weakness as lying in its difficulties with the axioms of "common humanity", and more particularly with "equal power of access to social states" which are inherent in the "fair city" model. But, taken separately, each existing legitimacy principle does not offer any better solution, because it runs into the problem of promises regarding the future. Sustainable development must therefore be sought in "compromise", i.e. that type of legitimacy in which societies do not succeed in completely explicating the basis of their agreement, while nevertheless being guided by the pursuit of a common good

Compromise · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Computer Science · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub