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A formal framework for theories of sustainability
ConferencePaper (Artikel, die in Tagungsbänden erschienen sind)
 
ID 424584
Author(s) Christen, Marius; Schmidt, Stephan
Author(s) at UniBasel Christen, Marius
Schmidt, Stephan
Year 2010
Title A formal framework for theories of sustainability
Book title (Conference Proceedings) The Sixteenth Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference. Conference Proceedings
Place of Conference Hong Kong
Place of Publication ISDRS
Pages S. 1-16
Keywords sustainability
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).
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