Ethics of science in the research for sustainable development

Cover -- Introduction -- I Sustainable Development -- The Quality of Sustainability Science: A Philosophical Perspective -- Concepts and Conceptions of Sustainable Development: A Comparative Perspective -- The Foundations of Capability Theory: Comparing Nussbaum and Gewirth -- II Ethics & Theory of Science -- Post-Normal Science -- From Democratisation of Knowledge to Democratisation of Ignorance - and the Importance of Hermeneutics -- Ethics in the Sciences beyond Hume, Moore and Weber: Taking Epistemic-Moral Hybrids Seriously -- Ethics of Science and a New Social Contract for Knowledge -- III Politics & Governance of Transformation -- Security and the Absurd Event: What the Zombie Apocalypse Teaches us about Resilience -- Shaping Science Policy - More Democracy and Sustainability -- IV Environmental Humanities -- Don't be such a meat-breath! Food and Sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy -- "As if that God made Creatures for Mans meat": Margaret Cavendish's The Hunting of the Hare and Animal Ethics -- Climate Change in Early Modern Literature Which Place for Humanities in the Sustainability Sciences? -- V Fields of Application -- Parameters of the Anthropocene -- Sustainable Development and Nonhuman Animals: Why Anthropocentric Concepts of Sustainability Are Outdated and Need to Be Extended -- Water Ethics - Reflections on a Liquifying Topic -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Im Zentrum des Bandes steht die Frage, welche Rolle der Wissenschaft bei der Findung von Antworten auf die Herausforderungen der nachhaltigen Entwicklung zukommt bzw. zukommen sollte. Die Beiträge präsentieren einen ambitionierten Überblick sowohl über die Grundlagendebatten als auch über die anwendungsorientierten Reflexionen über Themen wie Wasser, das Anthropozän-Konzept und die Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen.In englischer Sprache.