Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30215 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 141
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
The guiding principle of sustainability is widely accepted in today´s international policies. The principle contains two seperate objectives of justice with regard to the conservation and use of ecosystems and their services: (1) global justice between different people of the present generation (intragenerational justice); and (2) justice between people of different generations (intergenerational justice). Three hypotheses about the relationship between these objectives are logically possible and are, in fact, held in the political and scientific discourse on sustainable development: independency, facilitation and rivalry. Applying the method of qualitative content analysis we evaluate political documents and the scientific literature on sustainable development by systematically revealing the lines of reasoning and determinants underlying the different hypotheses. These determinants are the quantity and quality of ecosystem services, population development, substitutability of ecosystem services by humanmade goods and services, technological progress, institutions and political restrictions
Subjects: 
Sustainable development
ecosystem services
intragenerational justice
intergenerational justice
ecological justice
sustainability research
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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