1st Edition
Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability Ethics in Sustainability Indexes
By Sarah Fredericks
Copyright 2014
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
The indexes used by local, national, and international governments to monitor progress toward sustainability do not adequately align with their ethical priorities and have a limited ability to monitor and promote sustainability. This book gives a theoretical and practical demonstration of how ethics and technical considerations can aid the development of sustainability indexes to overcome this... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Sustainability: A Technical and Normative Endeavour 3. Index Theory 4. Comparative Ethics for Sustainability 5. An Ethical Examination of Sustainability Indexes 6. Environmental Justice: a Resource for Sustainability Indexes? 7. Aggregating Local Indicators 8. Ethics in Sustainability Indexes
Biography
Sarah E. Fredericks is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, USA.
