sustainability

Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.

Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins argue that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability, so critiquing the view that a practice which ought not to be followed must therefore not be sustainable.

Common, Blamey, and Norton discuss the connections between sustainability and environmental valuation for economists.

Anthony M. Friend on Ecological Economics—a new synthesis in which the traditional virtue of thrift is justified using modern ideas from systems theory and thermodynamics.

Michael Redclift analyzes “sustainable development” as a product of the Modernist tradition, arguing for a new vision of the world in which the authority of science and technology is questioned and more emphasis is placed on cultural diversity.

Lester Milbrath discusses the good life, as practised in modern society, claiming it to not only be unsustainable but also frequently not even good.

Eric Katz examines and compares the ontological and axiological character of artefacts—human creations—with nonhuman natural entities.

Filomina Chioma Steady links shelter, women, and the environment in order to understand this important dimension of the crisis in human settlements, particularly in the provision of human shelters.