Sustainability Ethics and Sustainability Research

<p>1. Introduction</p><p> </p><p>PART I: Sustainability and Ethics</p><p> </p><p>2. The Meaning of Sustainability</p><p> </p><p>3. The Inherent Ethical Dimension of Sustainability – Toward a Relational Ethical Perspective</p><p> </p><p>4. Limits and Potential of Traditional Moral Philosophy and Current Ethics – Some Arguments For the Need For a New Type of Sustainability Ethics</p><p>4.1 The Limits of Utilitarianism and Deontology</p><p>4.2 Environmental Ethics and Sustainability Ethics</p><p>4.3 Virtue Ethics and Ethics of Care: The Ethical Relevance of Relationships</p><p>4.4 The Ethical Relevance of Social Structures and Institutions</p><p> </p><p>5. The Challenges of Sustainability Ethics</p><p> </p><p>PART II: Meta-structures and Sustainability</p><p> </p><p>6. Sustainability, Institutions, and Patterns of Thought and Action</p><p> </p><p>7. Meta-structures</p><p>7.1 Science As a Meta-structure</p><p>7.2 Technology As a Meta-structure</p><p>7.3 The Economy As a Meta-structure</p><p>7.4 Interrelations Among Meta-structures</p><p> </p><p>8. The Impact of the Web of Meta-structures on the Sustainability Relations</p><p> </p><p>PART III: Toward a New Sustainability Ethics</p><p> </p><p>9. The Relational Dimension of Sustainability Ethics and the Role of Individual Morality</p><p>9.1 Ethics of the Human–Nature Relationship</p><p>9.2 Ethical Specifics of the Relationship With Future Generations</p><p>9.3 Sustainability and the Ethics of the Relationship Between Contemporaries</p><p>9.4 An Integrated Ethical Approach to All Sustainability Relations: The Sustainable Person</p><p> </p><p>10. The Structural Dimension of Sustainability Ethics</p><p>10.1 An Ethical Critique of the Existing Web of Meta-structures</p><p>10.1.1 The Reduction of the Human–Nature Relation</p><p>10.1.2 The Reduction of the Relationship with Future Generations</p><p>10.1.3 The Reduction of the Relationship Between Contemporaries</p><p>10.1.4 Conclusion</p><p>10.2 Guidelines for a Redesign of the Meta-structures</p><p>10.3 Examples of Internal Structural Change: Biomimicry, Industrial Ecology, and Fair Trade</p><p>10.4 Excursus: Rationality, Human Self-identity, and Meta-structures</p><p> </p><p>PART IV: Toward an Encompassing Sustainability Research</p><p> </p><p>11. The Need For a New Type of Sustainability Research</p><p> </p><p>12. Inter- and Transdisciplinarity</p><p>12.1 Interdisciplinary Integration of Sciences and Sustainability Ethics</p><p>12.2 Transdisciplinary Integration of Research Into the Sustainability Relations</p><p> </p><p>13. Capabilities and Personal Identity of the Researcher</p><p> </p><p>14. The Role of Philosophy for Sustainability Research</p><p> </p><p>15. Conclusion</p><p> </p>Index