The Justice Dimension of Sustainability: A Systematic and General Conceptual Framework

Klara Helene Stumpf, Stefan Baumgärtner, Christian U. Becker and Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach
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Klara Helene Stumpf: Sustainability Economics Group, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Scharnhorststraße 1, D-21335 Lüneburg, Germany
Christian U. Becker: College of Business, Colorado State University, 1271 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1271, USA
Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach: Sustainability Economics Group, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Scharnhorststraße 1, D-21335 Lüneburg, Germany

Sustainability, 2015, vol. 7, issue 6, 1-35

Abstract: We discuss how the normative dimension of sustainability can be captured in terms of justice. We (i) identify the core characteristics of the concept of sustainability and discuss underlying ethical, ontological and epistemological assumptions; (ii) introduce a general conceptual structure of justice for the analysis and comparison of different conceptions of justice; and (iii) employ this conceptual structure to determine the specific characteristics and challenges of justice in the context of sustainability. We demonstrate that sustainability raises specific and partly new challenges of justice regarding the community of justice, the judicandum, the informational base, the principles, and the instruments of justice.

Keywords: conceptual structure of justice; epistemology; ontology; sustainability ethics; sustainability justice; sustainability science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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