The paper critically examines the status of the sustainability discourse and sustainability politics against the backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the natural basis of life is by itself a requirement of...

MINE - Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy is a digital archive and visual map showing the intersection between nature and economy. By focusing on the interconnections between fundamental concepts e.g. of time, thermodynamics, evolution, responsibility and justice, a new concept of...

Wirtschaftswissenschaften wird zunächst in Grundzügen beschrieben und dann hinsichtlich seiner langfristigen Tragfähigkeit kritisch reflektiert: Wir unterscheiden hierbei zwei gegensätzliche Standpunkte: Einen optimistischen und einen pessimistischen. Welchen man einnimmt, hängt wesentlich...

To answer the question "How to be an Ecological Economist", we must start by defining the field of Ecological Economics. Mainstream Economics altogether lacks the concepts required to deal adequately with nature, justice and time. It was the absence of these three concepts in this otherwise...