We argue that economics – as the scientific method of analyzing trade-offs – can be helpful (and may even be indispensable) for assessing the trade-off between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate the “opportunity set” of politics with respect...

As the increasing loss of ecosystem services severely affects life perspectives of today's poor and future persons, governing access to, and use of, ecosystem services in an intragenerational and intergenerational just way is an urgent issue. Therefore, I argue that theories of distributive...

We discuss how the normative dimension of sustainability can be captured in terms of justice. We (i) identify the core characteristics of the concept of sustainability and discuss underlying ethical, ontological and epistemological assumptions; (ii) introduce a general conceptual structure of...

The normative aim of environmental justice poses two challenges to the management of agricultural systems: (1) improvement of access for today’s rural poor to vital ecosystem services ('intragenerational environmental justice'); and (2) sustenance of critical ecosystem funds to enable future...

Critical consumerism is the conscious choice of purchasing or avoiding products for ethical or environmental reasons. As an increasing share of consumer attempts to purchase sustainably produced food, credence attributes, which are product qualities that are not easily observable or verifiable...

Zurzeit bestehen große Forschungslücken in Hinsicht auf die Nutzung digitaler Technologien und deren direkten und indirekten Auswirkungen auf die Biodiversität. Das Fehlen von belastbaren und wissensbasierten Aussagen seitens der Forschung sowie die hohen Anschaffungskosten von digitalen...