Sustainability and the art of long-term thinking / Bernd Klauer, Reiner Manstetten, Thomas Petersen, and Johannes Schiller ; with contributions from Beate Fischer, Frank Jöst, Mi-Yong Lee and Konrad Ott ; translated by Kathleen Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klauer, Bernd, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in sustainability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Planning.

Sustainable development.

Sustainable development--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

xx, 243 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Sustainability and the art of long term thinking

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Part I Sustainability and time 1

1 Different approaches to sustainability policy 3

1.1 Time 3

1.2 Academia and sustainability policy 5

1.3 Persistence as an expression of the time inherent to things 9

1.4 The time for action: political judgement 11

1.5 The conceptual framework of stocks as a heuristic for sustainability policy: themes and structure of the book 12

2 Sustainability: theory and policy 16

2.1 Sustainable development: nice sounding but meaningless or a sound strategy for future-oriented policy making? 16

2.2 The origin of the concept of sustainability 17

2.3 The philosophical debate about sustainability 19

2.4 Operationalising sustainability 25

2.5 Sustainability policy and the concept of stocks: shortcomings and ways to ameliorate them 27

Part II The conceptual framework of stocks 31

3 The perspective of stocks 33

3.1 Origins of the concept of stock and its German translation Bestand 33

3.2 Aim of the conceptual framework of stocks 35

3.3 Framing the problem, using a systemic approach and adopting a stocks perspective 36

4 Material stocks 43

4.1 Definitional approach 43

4.2 Time horizon and timescale under consideration 43

4.3 Definitions 44

4.4 An equivalent definition of persistence 47

4.5 Examples of material stocks 48

4.6 Reasons for the persistence of material stocks 49

4.7 Empirical information about stocks 50

5 Immaterial stocks and institutions 53

5.1 What are immaterial stocks? 53

5.2 The observability of immaterial stocks 54

5.3 Behaviour and behavioural patterns 56

5.4 Behavioural patterns and understanding actions 57

5.5 Behavioural patterns, regularity and rule 59

5.6 Rules and the study of rules: theories of institutions 61

5.7 On the connection between institutions and other immaterial stock 65

6 The persistence of institutions 68

6.1 Two theoretical approaches to understanding the persistence and changeability of institutions 68

6.2 Institutional economics and the issue of persistence 69

6.3 Arnold Gehlen's philosophical theory of institutions and the question of persistence 75

6.4 The legitimacy of institutions as a factor in their persistence 89

6.5 The stocks perspective in relation to institutions 93

7 Judgement 98

7.1 What is judgement? 98

7.2 Knowledge, science and politics 100

7.3 Difficulties associated with 'scientific knowledge' 103

7.4 Practical knowledge 105

7.5 Practical knowledge and judgement 106

7.6 Characterising judgement 107

7.7 Judgement and science 113

7.8 Judgement in politics and sustain ability policy 114

8 Time and the practical dimension of the concept of stock 119

8.1 Preliminary comments 119

8.2 Theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of stock 120

8.3 Time 120

8.4 A sense of time: two examples 127

8.5 Conclusion: the stocks framework and judgement 133

Part III Applying the stocks framework 137

9 Shaping institutional change in the course of contamination management in Saxony-Anhalt 141

9.1 Introduction 141

9.2 The problem of inherited contamination in eastern Germany 143

9.3 Exemption from liability for inherited contamination in Saxony-Anhalt 146

9.4 Success factors 149

9.5 Summary: the importance of a sense of time 152

10 Ways of achieving sustainable land use in Germany: a stocks-based analysis 154

10.1 The German government's sustainability target 154

10.2 Past development trends in land dedicated to human settlements and transport infrastructure 155

10.3 Factors influencing the development of land use 158

10.4 Discovering windows of opportunity for land use governance 166

10.5 Conclusion 170

Part IV The art of long-term thinking 175

11 The stocks framework as a heuristic for sustainability policies 177

11.1 The stocks framework as a heuristic 177

11.2 A reminder: the core elements of the stocks framework 177

11.3 Weaving together a heuristic for sustainability policies 186

11.4 Possibilities and limitations of the heuristic 199

12 Applying the heuristic: key elements of a sustainable inland shipping policy 201

12.1 Applying the heuristic to inland shipping policy 201

12.2 How can politicians manage inland shipping in Germany in a sustainable way? 202

12.3 Reflection 217

13 Stocks: a schooling in long-term thinking 219

13.1 Begin with things as they are 219

13.2 A focus on 'time' 220

13.3 Judgement and developing a 'sense of what is essential' 221

13.4 The art of long-term thinking 222.

Notes:

"Earthscan from Routledge".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138689909

1138689904

OCLC:

947041753

Publisher Number:

40026368686