Sustainability Ethics and Sustainability Research

1. Introduction

PART I: Sustainability and Ethics

2. The Meaning of Sustainability

3. The Inherent Ethical Dimension of Sustainability - Toward a Relational Ethical Perspective

4. Limits and Potential of Traditional Moral Philosophy and Current Ethics - Some Arguments For the Need For a New Type of Sustainability Ethics

4.1 The Limits of Utilitarianism and Deontology

4.2 Environmental Ethics and Sustainability Ethics

4.3 Virtue Ethics and Ethics of Care: The Ethical Relevance of Relationships

4.4 The Ethical Relevance of Social Structures and Institutions

5. The Challenges of Sustainability Ethics

PART II: Meta-structures and Sustainability

6. Sustainability, Institutions, and Patterns of Thought and Action

7. Meta-structures

7.1 Science As a Meta-structure

7.2 Technology As a Meta-structure

7.3 The Economy As a Meta-structure

7.4 Interrelations Among Meta-structures

8. The Impact of the Web of Meta-structures on the Sustainability Relations

PART III: Toward a New Sustainability Ethics

9. The Relational Dimension of Sustainability Ethics and the Role of Individual Morality

9.1 Ethics of the Human-Nature Relationship

9.2 Ethical Specifics of the Relationship With Future Generations

9.3 Sustainability and the Ethics of the Relationship Between Contemporaries

9.4 An Integrated Ethical Approach to All Sustainability Relations: The Sustainable Person

10. The Structural Dimension of Sustainability Ethics

10.1 An Ethical Critique of the Existing Web of Meta-structures

10.1.1 The Reduction of the Human-Nature Relation

10.1.2 The Reduction of the Relationship with Future Generations

10.1.3 The Reduction of the Relationship Between Contemporaries

10.1.4 Conclusion

10.2 Guidelines for a Redesign of the Meta-structures

10.3 Examples of Internal Structural Change: Biomimicry, Industrial Ecology, and Fair Trade

10.4 Excursus: Rationality, Human Self-identity, and