Sustainability Ethics and Sustainability Research - Becker, Christian; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012)
1. Introduction -- PART I: Sustainability and Ethics -- 2. The Meaning of Sustainability -- 3. The Inherent Ethical Dimension of Sustainability - Toward a Relational Ethical Perspective -- 4. Limits and Potential of Traditional Moral Philosophy and Current Ethics - Some Arguments For the Need For a New Type of Sustainability Ethics -- 5. The Challenges of Sustainability Ethics -- PART II: Meta-structures and Sustainability -- 6. Sustainability, Institutions, and Patterns of Thought and Action -- 7. Meta-structures -- 8. The Impact of the Web of Meta-structures on the Sustainability Relations -- PART III: Toward a New Sustainability Ethics -- 9. The Relational Dimension of Sustainability Ethics and the Role of Individual Morality -- 10. The Structural Dimension of Sustainability Ethics -- PART IV: Toward an Encompassing Sustainability Research -- 11. The Need For a New Type of Sustainability Research -- 12. Inter- and Transdisciplinarity -- 13. Capabilities and Personal Identity of the Researcher -- 14. The Role of Philosophy for Sustainability Research -- 15. Conclusion -- Index.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Ethics; Philosophy and science; Environment; Philosophy; Sustainable Development; Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Environment, general; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Philosophy of Technology