The challenges of sustainable development are primarily ethical in nature. Guided by a ceaseless quest for profit, today's global economy is synonymous with vast amounts of exclusion, indignity, and environmental devastation. To succeed, therefore, the Sustainable Development Goals require...

"Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance" analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media - together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy - may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global...

The paper examines the ethical dimension of sustainability. I start with an analysis of the modern concept of sustainability and demonstrate its inherent ethical meaning. This ethical meaning is connected to the specific relational meaning of the concept, which refers to fundamental...

It is the nature of powerful ideas that they can summarize a ground-breaking concept in a plain and simple message. In this sense, the concept of sustainability is a very powerful idea. However, although the sustainability debate has already brought about considerable conceptual progress, a...