Das Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Veranstaltungen

Donnerstag, 29.10.2015, 18:00 Uhr
Vortragsraum im Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften

Forschungsnetzwerk »Saisir l'Europe - Europa als Herausforderung« in Kooperation mit dem Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität
Abendvortrag

John O'Neill (Universität Manchester)
»Well-being, substitutability and ecosystem services«

Zum Vortrag
In standard economic approaches sustainable development is understood as a requirement that well-being does not decline over time. Well-being is characterised in terms of preference satisfaction. Main-taining well-being thus characterised requires that either the total stock of capital does not decline (weak sustainability) or that a stock of critical natural capital does not decline (strong sustainability). The natural world consists in a bundle of assets that are valued in terms of the services they provide, either directly for the welfare of those who use them or indirectly as inputs into production and as the background conditions for human life and production. This paper criticizes this approach to sustainability. The preference satisfaction approach to well-being is flawed, and replacing it with a needs-based approach puts stronger limits on the substitutability of goods across different dimensions of well-being. Characterizing the value of environmental goods in terms of ecosystem services fails to capture de re valuations of goods that are constitutive of human well-being.

Der Redner
Professor Dr. John O’Neill ist Professor für Politische Ökonomie und Philosophie an der University of Manchester. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen die Politische Theorie, Ethik, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Fragen der Umweltpolitik. Zum Thema des Vortrags veröffentlichte er 2008 im Verlag Routledge das Buch Environmental Values (gemeinsam mit A. Holland und A. Light).



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