Safeguarding our common future : rethinking sustainable development

✍ Scribed by Leman-Stefanovic, Ingrid

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: SUNY series in environmental and architectural phenomenology.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines how a phenomenological approach helps move us closer toward safeguarding our common future by evolving a more originative and informed way of thinking about the foundations of sustainable development. Phenomenology, as conceived by Heidegger, enlarges and deepens our ways of thinking about sustainable development and offers a unique methodology of environmental policy development and planning. [from publisher's advertisment].  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

I. Problems with Current Thinking about Sustainable Development --
1. The Challenge of Sustainability in a Postmodern World --
2. The Brundtland Report and Limits of Techne --
3. Calculation and Sustainability --
II. Foundations of Phenomenological Thought --
4. The Possibilities of Originative Thinking --
5. Ontological Foundations of Environmental Thinking --
6. Ontology and Ethics --
III. Phenomenological Guidelines for Sustainability --
7. The Emergence of Place --
8. Place-Based Ethics --
9. Phenomenology and Sustainability --
10. Phenomenology, Sustainability, and the Lived World --
App. Heidegger's Politics.

✦ Subjects

Sustainable development;Human ecology;Ethics, Modern;Phenomenology