"How can we design circular business models? How can we organize the transition from a linear to a circular economy? And how can we imagine circular futures that help us transform current realities? This book aims to provide answers to these questions while addressing the challenges and opportunities of the circular economy. The authors reflect on why conventional sustainability models - such as the 'triple P' (People, Profit, Planet) or eco-efficiency - have failed in addressing environmental challenges including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. They then move on to explore innovative circular business models, which propose to eliminate environmental damage by radically reforming the system of industrial production. Organizing the transition is a collaborative effort: entrepreneurs, consumers, policymakers, multinationals and intermediaries need to work together to foster the emergence of the circular economy as an institutional field. Together with younger generations of learners and equipped with beyond-human centred values towards awareness of the material and natural world, novel circular futures can be imagined. Offering points of reference for continued critical discourse and examples of practically applicable sustainability solutions, this book will be of great interest to students, teachers, practitioners and scholars of circular economy."
Vorwort -- Wahrhaftigkeit in der Politik -- Wahrhaftigkeit in der kommunalen und öffentlichen Arbeit -- Wahrhaftigkeit in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften -- Wahrhaftigkeit in Kirche -- Wahrhaftigkeit in der Theologie -- Wahrhaftigkeit in der Wirtschaft -- Wahrhaftigkeit in der Begleitung von Menschen.
Although Kant is best known for his abstract ethical writings, you might be surprised to learn that this philosophical giant had things to say about gossiping, doing favours, getting drunk, telling white lies and being a good dinner party guest. This book will help you understand the essential framework of Kant's ethical theory, with its emphasis on rationality, freedom and hopefulness.
Chapter 1: Civil Society Concepts, Challenges, and Contexts: An Introduction to Helmut Anheier's Festschrift -- Chapter 2: Scholarship, Leadership, and Institution Building: Helmut Anheier and the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sectors -- Part I: Developing Concepts and Theoretical Frames -- Chapter 3: The Theory of the Public Sphere Revisited -- Chapter 4: Dealing with Civility: Citizenship, Real Citizens and the Science of Civil Society -- Chapter 5: Successful Failure: Functions and Dysfunctions of Civil Society Organizations -- Chapter 6: Social Innovation – Not Without Civil Society -- Chapter 7: The Hiding Hand, Persistent Fragile Action, and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 8: Using the System of National Accounts Framework to Measure Social Impacts of Social Economy Institutions -- Chapter 9: From Anheier's Civil Society Diamond to a Principled Fundraising Jurisprudence for Civil Society -- Chapter 10: Legitimizing Foundations: Functions, Expectations, and Regulation -- Chapter 11: Foundations and Democracy: The Changing Case for the Defense -- Chapter 12: Foundations: Is Measurement the Enemy of Creativity -- Part II: Charting Global Challenges -- Chapter 13: Planetary Politics: Reviving the Spirit of the Concept "Global Civil Society" -- Chapter 14: Global Civil Society in Retreat: Is It Cyclical or Existential -- Chapter 15: The Offensive Against Global Civil Society: Diffusion of NGO Restrictions -- Chapter 16: Civil Society Actors in International Cultural Diplomacy -- Chapter 17: Arts, Cultural Participation, and Democracy. Analyzing the Indicator Framework on Culture and Democracy -- Chapter 18: Global Civil Religion -- Chapter 19: Civil Society and the Problem of Knowledge -- Chapter 20: The Dark Side of the Nonprofit Sector: Polarization in Contemporary Society -- Part III: Changing Contexts: Local and Regional Case Studies -- Chapter 21: Civil Society Encroachment in Non-liberal Democracies: The Case of Israel -- Chapter 22: Policy Controversies and Challenges for Organized Civil Society: The Case of England Before the COVID-19 Crisis -- Chapter 23: Transformation of Civil Society Organization Functions in Modern Russia -- Chapter 24: The Skeptic Who Came in from the Cold? The Formation of a Climate-skeptic Alliance in Germany -- Chapter 25: The Recent Evolution of Foundations in France -- Chapter 26: Pluralism and Inequality: Brief Reflections on Philanthropic Foundations and their Study in the United States -- Chapter 27: Businesses as Civil Society Actors? An Engagement and Cooperation Analysis Based on German Company Data -- Chapter 28: Scenarios for Civil Society Impact in Norway -- Chapter 29: Women in the German Nonprofit Sector: Working Conditions and Promotion Opportunities -- Chapter 30: Los Angeles and the State of the Nonprofit Sector: A Review of Findings and Examination of Three Theses -- Appendix: Helmut K. Anheier's publications -- Index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Structure of the research: Intercultural Dialogue, Places of Religion and Rituals -- THEORETICAL APPROACHES: CONSERVATION, REGENERATION, AND REUSE -- Calling 'values' by 'name'. Historical analysis and critical discernment for the interpretation and regeneration of underused religious heritage. - Europe's Living Religious Heritage: The process leading to FRH's biennial conference 2021 and its statement on Living Religious Heritage and Continuous Use -- Interreligious dialogues. First contacts of the Jewish community in the Kumamoto's prefecture (Japan) in the Kofun period -- Heritage Value of Religious Sites of Hinduism: Asian Linkages and Reuse for Cultural Regeneration -- Need of Ethical Guidelines in Community-Based Conservation Consultations of Living Religious Heritage: an Indian Perspective -- "Between the sword and the cross", religiosity in the Spanish colonial fortifications; case study Fortifications of San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Visualizing the Great Contemporary Religious Architecture in Latin America -- The legacy of Franciscan Observance convents in Portugal: overview of their reuse towards Sustainable Development -- NATIONAL LAWS, LOCAL RECOMMENDATIONS, AND LEGAL PROCEDURES -- Religious Monuments and Sites in Kosovo: Legal Framework approach on Reuse and Regeneration -- The role of Waqf for preserving the Religious Buildings and the Morphology of the Islamic city -- Legal criteria for the reuse of religious cultural heritage in Mexico -- The Temple of Santiago Apostle in Nurio (Michoacán, Mexico): Risk management as a resilience tool for the conservation of religious heritage -- PROJECTS AND BEST PRACTICES -- In Search of a Vanishing Heritage: The Documentation Project of Oratorian Missionary Churches in Sri Lanka -- Assessing the values for the comprehensive conservation of the Imam Reza Shrine -- Revitalization of the Religious Sites of Tombouctou (Mosques and Mausoleums Listed as UNESCO World Heritage) Post Terrorism and Covid Crisis -- Conservation, reuse and regeneration of religious cultural heritage: the case of the Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo and the Historic District of Panama -- The vicissitudes of heritage recognition and valuation: the case of Holy Week in Tunja (Colombia) -- The restoration and critical reconstruction of two historic mosques severely affected by armed conflict in Mosul (Iraq) -- The role of small religious landmarks today and tomorrow.
Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms. A system of what she calls deontological eudaemonism - achieving happiness both rationally conceived (as non-felt pleasure) and empirically conceived (as pleasurable fulfilment of one's desires).
Part 1. Theoretical Background -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Context and Foundations of Ethical Public Health Policy (Michael Boylan) -- Chapter 2. The Common Good and Individual Rights in Pandemic Times: The Case of Sweden's COVID-19 Strategy (Per Bauhn) -- Chapter 3. Formal Epistemology Meets a Coronavirus: Rational Decision and the Response to COVID-19 (Sahotra Sarkar) -- Chapter 4. Reevaluating Value in Public Health Policy: Values as Iterative Rational Inquiry (Peter Tan) -- Chapter 5. Pandemics, Race, and The Moral Goal of Public Health (Takunda Matose) -- Part 2. Public Policy and Administration -- Chapter 6. Is There a Duty to Treat in a Pandemic? (Wanda Teays).-Chapter 7. Principlist Pandemics: On Fraud, Ethical Guidelines, and the Importance of Procetural Transparency (Jonathan Lewis) -- Chapter 8. Public Tasks During Contagious Disease Pandemics: A Rights-Based Perspective (Klaus Steigleder) -- Chapter 9. Allocating and Prioritizing Health Care in times of Scarcity and Abundance (Rita Manning) -- Addressing Pandemic Disparities: Equity and Neutral Conceptions of Justice (Debra DeBruin) -- Chapter 10. Addressing Pandemic Disparities: Equity and Neutral Conceptions of Justice (Debra DeBruin) -- Chapter 11. COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs): Could Stronger Public-Health Measures Have Made a Difference? (Rosemarie Tong) -- Chapter 12. The U.N. System, COVID-19 Responses, and Building Back Better: Toward an Inclusive, Accessible, and Sustainable World (Akiko Ito).
Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Climate Change Adaptation: An Overview -- Chapter 2: Defining Net-Zero and Climate Recommendations for Carbon Offsetting -- Part 2: Ecology and the Natural Environment -- Chapter 3: Green Infrastructure Mapping for Adaptation, Biodiversity, and Health and Wellbeing: A Tool Development Case Study in Edinburgh -- Chapter 4: Agroecological Approaches for Climatic Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Experiences from the South to Encourage Direct Producer-Consumer Relationships -- Chapter 5: Sustainable Renaturation in Desertification Control: Expediting the Natural Succession of Large-Scale Vegetation in Drylands -- Part 3: Finance and the Economy -- Chapter 6: Weaknesses in Corporate Commitments to Climate Change Adaptation and How to Fix Them: A Systemic Scenario Assessment Approach -- Chapter 7: Climate Finance: A Business-Ethical Analysis -- Chapter 8: Risk-Rating GHG Emissions Offsets based on Climate Requirements -- Chapter 9: An Investigation of Climate Change within the Framework of a Schumpeterian Economic Growth Model -- Chapter 10: Culture, Economics, and Climate Change Adaptation -- Chapter 11: Investors' Adaptation to Climate Change: A Temporal Portfolio Choice Model with Diminishing Climate Duration Hazard -- Part 4: Cities and Urban Areas -- Chapter 12: Mainstreaming Adaptation into Urban Planning: Projects and Changes in Regulatory Frameworks for Resilient Cities -- Chapter 13: Path-Dependency as a Potential Cause for the Disjunction between Theory and Tools in the Modelled Reality of Sustainable Architecture -- Part 5: Global Perspectives -- Chapter 14: Addressing Climate Change and Waste Management Problems through the Development of the Waste-to-Energy Value Chain for Trinidad and Tobago -- Chapter 15: The Role of Businesses in Climate Change Adaptation in the Arctic -- Chapter 16: Climate Risk on the Rise: Canada's Approach to Limiting Future Climate Impacts -- Chapter 17: Unlocking Climate Finance to Compensate Caribbean Small Island Developing States for Damages and Losses from Climate Change -- Chapter 18: Integrating Local and Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa.
Paul Katsafanas examines the role of devotion as an ethical stance in human life. Devotion typically involves treating certain values, goals, or relationships as inviolable, incontestable, and invulnerable to argument. Katsafanas argues that devotion can be reasonable, and suggests how it can avoid deforming into fanaticism.
Introduction -- Part 1. The History of Rights Theory. The Beginning: The Rise of the Idea of Natural Rights -- The Philosophical Discrediting of Natural Law and Natural Rights -- Does Hobbes Rather than Locke Provide a Forerunner to Modern Theories of Rights? -- The Jurisprudential Turn in Rights Theorising -- Reading Historical Writing on Rights: The Distorting Influence of Hohfeld -- Part 2. Current and Future Rights Theory: Assessing the Philosophy of Rights. The Continuing Dominance of Hohfeld -- Current Theories of Rights: The Will and Interest Theories and Theories of Human Rights -- Thoughts for Future Rights Theorising.