The justice dimension of sustainability: A systematic and general conceptual framework
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In: Sustainability, Vol. 7, No. 6, 09.06.2015, p. 7438-7472.
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T1 - The justice dimension of sustainability
T2 - A systematic and general conceptual framework
AU - Stumpf, Klara Helene
AU - Baumgärtner, Stefan
AU - Becker, Christian
AU - Sievers-Glotzbach, Stefanie
PY - 2015/6/9
Y1 - 2015/6/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - conceptual structure of justice
KW - epistemology
KW - ontology
KW - sustainability ethics
KW - sustainability justice
KW - sustainability science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84934342827&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su7067438
DO - 10.3390/su7067438
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 7
SP - 7438
EP - 7472
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 6
ER -