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A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan NortonNorton and Sustainability as Such

A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton: Norton and Sustainability as Such [Bryan Norton takes the debate over weak and strong sustainability to characterize the key conceptual disagreement among attempts to elaborate a theoretical approach to sustainability. In contrast, I argue that this debate is mired within assumptions of economic development theory that fail to recognize how elements of fragility, stability, resilience and adaptive capability within system design or organization have been material to the way that sustainability has been conceptualized in many domains. Two paradigmatic conceptualizations of sustainability compete within the scholarly literature, one stressing the availability of key resource stocks, the other stressing the robustness and resilience of system organization. A better approach would move beyond weak and strong sustainability to acknowledge a deeper and more philosophically potent set of paradigmatic features within sustainability scholarship.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan NortonNorton and Sustainability as Such

Part of the The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics Book Series (volume 26)
Editors: Sarkar, Sahotra; Minteer, Ben A.
Thompson, Paul B.
A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton — Jul 17, 2018
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-92596-7
Pages
7 –26
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-92597-4_2
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Abstract

[Bryan Norton takes the debate over weak and strong sustainability to characterize the key conceptual disagreement among attempts to elaborate a theoretical approach to sustainability. In contrast, I argue that this debate is mired within assumptions of economic development theory that fail to recognize how elements of fragility, stability, resilience and adaptive capability within system design or organization have been material to the way that sustainability has been conceptualized in many domains. Two paradigmatic conceptualizations of sustainability compete within the scholarly literature, one stressing the availability of key resource stocks, the other stressing the robustness and resilience of system organization. A better approach would move beyond weak and strong sustainability to acknowledge a deeper and more philosophically potent set of paradigmatic features within sustainability scholarship.]

Published: Jul 17, 2018

Keywords: Resources; Natural capital; Gross Domestic Product (GDP); Resilience; Systems thinking

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