4.1 Literature Recommendations
Key Literature
Recommendations for further Reading
4.2 References
Sustainability
Barney, G. O. (ed.) 1980): The Global 2000 Report to the President: Entering the Twenty-first Century. Vol. 1, Council of Environmental Quality, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Becker, C., Ewringmann, D., Faber, M., Petersen, T., Zahrnt, A. (2015) Endangering the Natural Basis of Life is Unjust: On the Status and Future of the Sustainability Discourse, Ethics, Policy and Environment, 18:1, 60-67. This is a central paper for this element
Faber, M. (2008) How to be an ecological economist. Ecological Economics, 66(1), 1–7.
Faber, M., Jöst, F. and Manstetten, R. (1995) Limits and perspectives of sustainable development. Economie Appliquée 48: 231-249. This paper studies in detail the difficulties of achieving sustainability. It is central for Chapter 4 of this element.
Faber, M. and Manstetten, R. (2007) Was ist Wirtschaft? Von der Politischen Ökonomie zur Ökologischen Ökonomie. Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg/München: chapter 14.
Faber, M., Manstetten, R. and Proops, J.L.R. (1992) Toward an open future: ignorance, novelty and evolution. In: R. Costanza, B. Norton and B. Haskell (eds.) Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management, Island Press, Washington.
Faber, M., Manstetten, R. and Proops, J.L.R. (1998) Ecological Economics. Concepts and Methods. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton. Chapter 5 of this book is central for the representation of the concept of sustainability.
Hauff, V. (ed.) (1987): Unsere gemeinsame Zukunft: Der Brundtland-Bericht der Weltkommission für Umwelt und Entwicklung. Greven. This is the pioneering report on sustainability.
Kates, R. W., Parris, T. M., and Leiserowitz, A. A. (2005). What is sustainable development? Goals, indicators, values, and practice. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 47, 8–21.
Kirchgässner, G. (1997) Nachhaltigkeit in der Umweltnutzung. Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik 1: 1-34. This contribution, written by a Mainstream Economist, comes to the conclusion that Mainstream Economics is so little successful with its policy recommendations for sustainability.
Klauer, B. (1999a): Defining and achieving sustainable development. The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 6 (2), S.114-121.
Klauer, B. (1999b): Was ist Nachhaltigkeit und wie kann man eine nachhaltige Entwicklung erreichen? Zeitschrift für angewandte Umweltforschung, 12 (1), S.86-97.
Klauer, B., Manstetten, R., Petersen, T., Schiller, J. with contributions from Fischer B.; Jöst, F.; Lee, M.-Y.; Ott, K (2016) Sustainability and the Art of Long-Term Thinking. Routledge, London. (German Edition 2013: Die Kunst langfristig zu denken. Nomos Verlag Baden Baden). This book is a very encompassing and pioneering analysis of achieving sustainability. At the same time it is a basic contribution how to deal with time in environmental politics.
Lind, R. (1982) A primer on the major issues relating to the discount rate for evaluation national energy options. In: R. Lind (ed.), discounting for time and Risk in Energy Policy. Resources of the Future, Washington. This paper is an excellent summary on the rate of discount and the difficulty of estimating its value.
Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., and Behrens, W. (1972). The limits to growth. New York, NY: Unihttp://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nec/StrategyforAmericanInnovation.verse Books.
NEC [National Economic Council]. (2009). A Strategy for American Innovation. Driving Towards Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs. Retrieved from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nec/StrategyforAmericanInnovation
Petersen, T. and Faber, M. (2001) Der Wille zur Nachhaltigkeit. Ist, wo ein Wille ist, auch ein Weg? In D. Birnbacher and Gerd Brudermüller (eds.), Zukunftsverantwortung und Generationensolidarität, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg: 47-71. This paper discusses exetnsivel from an natural scientific, economic, political and philosophical perspective the concept of a will for sustainability.
Proops, J.L.R., Faber, M., Manstetten, R. and Jöst, F. (1996) Achieving a sustainable world, Ecological Economics 17: 133-135. This is a central paper for this element.
Proops, J.L.R. Faber, M., and Wagenhals, G. in Cooperation with Speck, S., Müller, G., Jöst, F. and Gay, P. (1993) Reducing CO2 Emissions. A Comparative Input-Output-Study for Germany and the UK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, etc.
Ott, K. (2014). Institutionalizing strong sustainability: A Rawlsian perspective. Sustainability, 6, 894–912.
Partridge, E. (2001). Future generations. In D. Jamieson (Ed.), A companion to environmental philosophy (pp. 377–389). Oxford: Blackwell.
Redclift, M. (1993) Sustainable development: needs, values, rights. Environmental Values. 1: 3-20.
Solow R. (1992) an almost practical step towards sustainability. In: an Invited lecture on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of Resources for the Future, 8. October 1992. This is a pioneering paper on achieving sustainability by one of the leading Mainstream Economists.
Toman, M.A. (1992) The difficulty in defining ssutaianability. Resources for the Future, Winter, No. 106.
UN [United Nations]. (2002). Johannesburg declaration on sustainable development. In UN, report of the world summit on sustainable development (pp. 1–5). New York, NY: United Nations.
WCED – World Commission on Environment and Development (1987): Our Common Future. Oxford.
Justice
Aristotle (1894) Ethica Nichomachia (ed. L. Bywater). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Aristotle (1985). The politics Transl. C. Lord. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.
Aristole (1925) The Nichomachian Ethics. (translated. By D. Ross)., Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Aristotle (1995) Nichomachische Ethik. Translated by Eugen Rolfes, edited by Günther Bien, Meiner, Hamburg.
Aristotle. (2000). Nicomachean Ethics Transl. R. Crisp. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Augustine, A. (1961) Confessions. (Translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin). Penguin, Middlesex.
Augustine, A. (undated) The Confessions of St. Augustine. (trans. by E. P. Pusey)- Dent, London.
Barry, B. (1997). Sustainability and intergenerational justice. Theoria, 44, 43 – 64. 10.
Baumgärtner, S., Faber, M., and Schiller, J. (2006a). Joint Production and Responsibility In Ecological Economics: On the Foundations of Environmental Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Faber, M., and Petersen, T. (2008). Gerechtigkeit und Marktwirtschaft – das Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit.Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 9, 405–423.This paper develops in detail the concept of order justice.
Kant , i. (1983) Kritik der Urteilskraft, in: ders., Werke in sechs Bänden. Band V, 233-620, hersg. V. W. Weischedel, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt.
Kant, I. (2006) Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals. The German Library: Volume 13. Ed. by Ernst Behler. The Continuum Publishing Company, New York.
Mill, J. S. ([1871] (1998)). Utilitarianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Petersen, T. and Faber, M. (2005) Verantwortung und das Problem der Kuppelproduktion. Reflexionen über die Grundlagen der Umweltpolitik. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 1/05: 35-59.
Platon (360 BC/1971), Politeia translated by F. Schleiermacher, in: Studienausgabe, Volume 4 edited by G. Eigler, Darmstadt. (Plato, The Republic, English translation by Benjamin Jowett).
Stumpf, K. H., Baumgärtner, S., Becker, C., and Sievers-Glotzbach, S. (2014). The justice dimension of sustainability: A systematic and general conceptual framework. In Manuscript. Leuphana University of Lueneburg: Sustainability Economics Group.
Natural Basis of Life
Becker, C., and Brown, D. (2013). Introduction to the special section: Integrating development ethics and climate change ethics. Ethics, Policy and Environment, 16, 37–42.
Förstner, U. (1990) Umweltschutztechnik. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.
GFME [German Federal Ministry of the Environment]. (2012). Goals of Germany’s National Sustainability Strategy. Retrieved from http://www.bmu.de/english/strategy_legislation/sustainability/doc/46448.php.
IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]. (2007). Climate change 2007. Synthesis report. Geneva:IPCC.
MEA [Millennium Ecosystem Assessment]. (2005). Ecosystems and human well-being: Synthesis. Washington,DC: Island Press.
Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., and Behrens, W. (1972). The limits to growth. New York, NY: Universe Books.
UNEP [United Nations Environment Programme]. (2007). Global environment outlook GEO-4: Environment for development. Malta: Progress Press.
UN [United Nations]. (1992). Rio declaration on environment and development. New York, NY: United Nations.
UN [United Nations]. (2011). World population prospects: The 2010 revision. New York, NY: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.
WCED [World Commission on Environment and Development]. (1987). Our common future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The Economic Dimension: Welfare and Efficiency
Baumgärtner, S., Becker, C., Faber, M., and Manstetten, R. (2006b). Relative and absolute scarcity of nature. Assessing the roles of ecology and economics for biodiversity conservation. Ecological Economics, 59,487–498.
Lind, R. (1982) A primer on the major issues relating to the discount rate for evaluation national energy options. In: R. Lind (ed.), discounting for time and Risk in Energy Policy. Resources of the Future, Washington. This is a good introduction into the rate of discount and the practice of discounting.
Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., and Behrens, W. (1972). The limits to growth. New York, NY: Universe Books. This is a classical text.
Meadows, D. H., Randers, J., and Meadows, D. L. (2004). Limits to growth. The 30-year update. White River Junction: Chelsea Green. This is a pioneering book.
The Meaning of Growth
Becker, C. (2012). Sustainability ethics and sustainability research. Dordrecht: Springer. This monography gives a good and comprehensive overview in a condensed form.
IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]. (2007). Climate change 2007. Synthesis report. Geneva:IPCC.
Kümmel, R. (1980) Growth, Dynamics of the Energy Dependent Economy, Mathematical Systems in Economics, Vol. 54. Athenäum, Hain, Scriptor, HAnstein, Königstein/Ts.
MEA [Millennium Ecosystem Assessment]. (2005). Ecosystems and human well-being: Synthesis. Washington,DC: Island Press.
Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., and Behrens, W. (1972). The limits to growth. New York, NY: Universe Books. This is a classical text (mentioned already in section 6.4).
Seidl, I. and Zahrnt, A. (Eds.). (2010). Postwachstumsgesellschaft, Konzepte für die Zukunft. Marburg: Metropolis.
UNEP [United Nations Environment Programme]. (2007). Global environment outlook GEO-4: Environment for development. Malta: Progress Press.
Neo-Austrian Capital Theory
Faber, M. and ProopsFaber, M. , Proops, J.L.R., Speck, S. with Jöst, F. (1999) Capital and time in Ecological Economics. Neo-Austrian Modelling. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, Northhampton, USA.
Stephan, G. (1995) Introduction into Capital theory. A Neo-Austrian Perspective. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York etc.
Winkler, R. (2003) Zeitverzögerte Dynamik von Kapital- und Schadstoffbeständen. Eine Österreichische Perspektive. Metropolis, Marburg. This monography is very technical. It does, however, analyses in an original way the temporal aspects of achieving sustainability.
Repositioning the Sustainability Discourse
EC [European Commission]. (2010). Europe 2020. A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Brussels: European Commission. Retrieved from http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri ¼ COM:2010:2020:FIN:EN:PDF
Zahrnt, A and Zahrnt, D. (2016) Digitale Landkarte Suffizienzpolitik, retrived from: http://www.postwachstum.de/suffizienzpolitik. This ist he internet address oft he digital landscape for sufficiency