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Sustainability and the future: reflections on the ethical and political significance of sustainability

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Sustainability Science, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 915 - 924

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s11625-019-00700-0

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Historically, concepts of sustainability have been articulated in response to a perceived crisis within modernist narratives about progress. As such, they are not just environmental concepts, but ethical and political ones. At the same time, they have often been accused of being too wedded to many o...

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ISSN: 1862-4065 1862-4057
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2017
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