Christen, Marius and Schmidt, Stephan. (2010) A formal framework for theories of sustainability. In: The Sixteenth Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference. Conference Proceedings. ISDRS, pp. 1-16.
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Abstract
In the sustainability discourse we find much disagreement about the idea of sustainability resulting in the unsatisfactory situation that different, or even contradictory, policies are provided as contri butions to a sustainable development. In the sustainability sciences we are facing an analogue situation since we do not have clear criteria to decide whether a research project contributes to these sciences or not (1). Examining various strategies to solve the challenge of arbitrariness we argue to adopt a metaperspective (2). In the central part of this paper, we thus describe a formal framework for theories of sustainability consisting of fundamental and practical modules (3). Sub sequently, we visualise the framework’s functionality by the discussion of a management rule (4). We conclude that the framework strengthens sustainability sciences and its selfconception insofar as the proposed framework provides an instrument to decide if a research project can be counted among these sciences, and that it may provide a helpful basis to solve the policyproblem (5).
Faculties and Departments: | 04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften > Fachbereich Nachhaltigkeitsforschung > Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (Burger) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Christen, Marius and Schmidt, Stephan |
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
Conference or workshop item Subtype: | Conference Paper |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Conference paper |
Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2012 07:07 |
Deposited On: | 08 Jun 2012 06:32 |
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