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  title info:
    title: Living well now and in the future
    sub title: why sustainability matters
  name:
    name part: Curren, Randall R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Metzger, Ellen
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Most people acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability, but few can define it. We are ethically bound to live sustainably for the sake of future generations, but what does that mean? In this book Randall Curren, a philosopher and Ellen Metzger, a scientist, clarify normative aspects of sustainability. Combining their perspectives, they propose that sustainability can be understood as the art of living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future. Curren and Metzger lay out the nature and value of sustainability, survey the problems, catalog the obstacles and identify the kind of efforts needed to overcome them. They formulate an ethic of sustainability with lessons for government, organizations and individuals, and illustrate key ideas with three case studies. Curren and Metzger put intergenerational justice at the heart of sustainability, discuss the need for fair (as opposed to coercive) terms of cooperation to create norms, institutions and practices conducive to sustainability, formulate a framework for a fundamental ethic of sustainability derived from core components of common morality and emphasize the importance of sustainability education. The three illustrative case studies focus on the management of energy, water and food systems, examining the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Australia's National Water Management System and patterns of food production in the Mekong region of southeast Asia.
  table of contents: What sustainability is and why it matters -- Obstacles to sustainability -- Sustainability ethics and justice -- Complexity and the structure of opportunity -- Managing complexity : three case studies -- An education in sustainability -- Conclusion : the promise of opportunity.
  note: Randall Curren and Ellen Metzger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Sustainability
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Justice
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: GE196 .C87 2017
  classification: 174/.4
  identifier: 9780262036009
  identifier: 0262036002
  identifier: 2016033654
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160921
    record change date: 20170926114018.0
    record identifier: in00003838310