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Georg Kamp „Circumspective Planning and Sustainability“

Abstract:

”Since the 'Rio-Conference' in 1992 and, increasingly, in the last years, when the topic of climate change attracted public interest and became part of the political agenda, more and more, ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ became ubiquitous concepts. And the lament that it is anything but clear what exactly is meant by these concepts is ubiquitous, too, at least among the scientists dealing with these topics. But in spite of all their conceptual vagueness they are paradigm examples of what meta-ethicists called a pro-word: Whatever ‘sustainability’ refers to, it is something that everybody agrees to and that everybody prefers to its opposite (e.g. unsustainable non-development). This focus outlines a strategy to define ‘sustainability’ by action-theoretical means and analyses its relation to the concept of intergenerational justice.“

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