Giving voice to the future in sustainability: Retrospective assessment to learn prospective stakeholder engagement

Mark W. Anderson, Mario Teisl () and Caroline Noblet

Ecological Economics, 2012, vol. 84, issue C, 1-6

Abstract: There is a broad understanding that intergenerational equity is a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for sustainability. Likewise, there is a growing consensus that sustainability science requires stakeholder engagement to be successful. These two ideas demand some meaningful way of engaging the future as a stakeholder if sustainability is to be operationalized. Rawls' theory of justice provides a model for how this might be accomplished, yet there are both conceptual and practical problems with a Rawlsian approach. We propose using retrospective assessment as a means of learning how to approach future stakeholder engagement in sustainability.

Keywords: Sustainability stakeholders; Intergenerational equity; Bequests; Retrospective assessment; Prospective assessment; Rawls (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.09.002

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