Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger et al. (eds.), Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation. Advancing Future Generations Rights Through National Institutions (Book Review)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 415-419
Author(s):  
Tejas Rao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
National Institutions ◽  
Treaty Implementation

Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Intergenerational Equity ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Treaty Implementation

Economic, technological, social and environmental transformations are affecting all humanity, and decisions taken today will impact the quality of life for all future generations. This volume surveys current commitments to sustainable development, analysing innovative policies, practices and procedures to promote respect for intergenerational justice. Expert contributors provide serious scholarly and practical discussions of the theoretical, institutional, and legal considerations inherent in intergenerational justice at local, national, regional and global scales. They investigate treaty commitments related to intergenerational equity, explore linkages between regimes, and offer insights from diverse experiences of national future generations' institutions. This volume should be read by lawyers, academics, policy-makers, business and civil society leaders interested in the economy, society, the environment, sustainable development, climate change, and other law, policy and practices impacting all generations.

scholarly journals Cyberprzemoc i niepełnosprawność jako ograniczenia wdrażania rozwoju zrównoważonego

2011 ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Violetta Korporowicz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Special Approach ◽  
Negative Phenomena

The aim of sustainable development is to take into an account such an economic development, which simultaneously addresses into the problem of improving the environment in strategies which will lead to the higher standard of life. Hence the question of intergenerational justice,in which it is essential that future generations have an equal, in relation to the contemporary, access to natural resources and equal opportunities for the development of the life standard. However, implementation of such sustainable development might be limited by the negative phenomena of the social support. These are e.g. cyberbullying and disability. Cyberbullying is a way of force with the use of mass-media - primarily the Internet and mobile phones. Disability is an another social phenomenon having negative implications for the implementation of sustainable development. It is true that in Poland the number of people with disabilities is consistently declining, but it still applies to thousands of people with reduced efficiency of operations in numerous areas of life, and therefore requires a special approach in everyday life and in education and the labor market.

scholarly journals Social Innovation for a Just Sustainable Development: Integrating the Wellbeing of Future People

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9013
Author(s):  
Rita Vasconcellos Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Future People ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
Brundtland Commission ◽  
Innovation Practices

Social innovation has gained increased attention as a mechanism for sustainable development. As the Brundtland Commission highlights, the improvement of present conditions should not compromise future generations’ needs. So far, (social) sustainable development has mostly focused on the amelioration of contemporary people’s wellbeing, relegating its duties towards future generations to second place. Given this, I consider it necessary to (re-)direct social innovation towards the promotion of the wellbeing of future people. I propose the concept of irreplaceable goods, a notion deriving from a strong sustainability perspective, which could then be integrated into social innovation practices related to sustainable development. Focusing on guaranteeing, at least, sufficient fruition of certain goods and resources, I devise this concept as a governance tool for steering development actions towards intergenerational justice, driven by social innovation action. In this article, we firstly delineate the relations between sustainable development and social innovation, while focusing on ‘value-driven’ social innovation. Afterward, I shortly introduce strong sustainability as support for future generations’ wellbeing. Furthermore, I develop the concept of irreplaceable goods as a governance tool in social innovation practices and finalize with a discussion on the application of irreplaceable goods in the assessment of sustainable development strategies.

Esensi Dan Urgensi Pengeluaran Pemerintah Untuk Pembangunan Daerah

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Luciana L. Nahumuri
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
State Revenue ◽  
State Expenditure

The essence and urgency of government expenditure for regional development is very crucial in realizing sustainable development, meaning that government spending must meet current needs without compromising the fulfillment of the needs of future generations. The higher the state revenue, the higher the state expenditure for regional development. Thus, an increase in understanding of government expenditure for regional development in a sustainable manner must be carried out with the principle of prudence in this country.

Our Obligation to Future Generations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amartya Sen
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Impartial Spectator ◽  
Effective Power ◽  
Basic Plane

Our reasoned sense of obligations to others can arise from at least three possible sources: cooperation, having caused harm, and effective power to improve suffering. The last source, this chapter argues, is particularly important in considering our obligations to future generations. It draws on a line of reasoning that takes us well beyond contractarian motivations to the idea of the “impartial spectator” as developed by Adam Smith. The interests of future generations come into the story because they are important in our attempt to be impartial spectators. The obligation of power contrasts with the mutual obligations for cooperation at the basic plane of motivational justification. In the context of climate concerns and intergenerational justice, this asymmetry-embracing approach seems to allow an easier entry for understanding our obligations.

scholarly journals ARE THERE OBLIGATIONS WITHOUT RIGHTS?

2010 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Heller
Keyword(s):  
Future Generation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Negative Sense ◽  
Prospective Responsibility ◽  
Present Understanding

In all command-obedience relations of asymmetric reciprocity, obligations or rather duties do not go normally with corresponding rights. There are no rights related to such relationships, at least not in the present  understanding of the word “right”, since they are prerogatives. But there are obligations based on morals, if not on rights, also in relations of  asymmetric reciprocity. Only in a relation of symmetric reciprocity do rights appear as foundations (archai) for claims, both in a positive, and in a  negative sense. We have obligations to future generations, even  responsibilities for living up to those obligations, but future generations cannot have rights. There is not, and cannot be, symmetric reciprocity between us and any future generation, in fact no reciprocity at all; there are obligations without corresponding rights.The cases of prospective responsibility, of being in charge, also implies obligations irrespective of the circumstance whether the parties towards whom we have obligations are the bearers of rights or not. Intergenerational justice does not presuppose extant rights whereas potential rights are just projections or metaphors with little relevance, for they are not binding.

Sustainable development of wastewater treatment strategies for the food industries

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Sekoulov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Integrated Production ◽  
Food Industries ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Process Wastewater

The sustainable development of environmental protection is a newly created philosophy. It means continuous development of better protection of the air, soil, water and resources, used from the industry, to be saved also for future generations. The globalization of the economy is another process, which interferes with environmental ideas, and an equilibrium with the socio-eco-sustainable development is wanted. The industry is subjected to big changes depending on economic development. Thus the treatment plants at the end of the pipe must be constructed with maximum flexibility. A removal of constructed devices, if not necessary, must be considered from the beginning as a possibility. Priority is given to integrated production processes solving wastewater problems directly by production devices. The treatment of the process wastewater streams separately will become more important. The end of the pipe solutions will be less complicated and more reliable. The reuse of valuable waste substances and treated water will reduce the total cost of the treatment plants substantially.

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