Sustainability and the common good: Catholic Social Teaching and 'Integral Ecology' as contributions to a framework of social values for sustainability transitions
Sustainability and the common good: Catholic Social Teaching and 'Integral Ecology' as contributions to a framework of social values for sustainability transitions
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10.1007/s11625-019-00691-y
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发表时间：
2019-09-01
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6
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Hejnowicz, Adam P.
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作者：
Christie, Ian;Gunton, Richard M.;Hejnowicz, Adam P.
人们普遍承认，为减缓气候变化和在地球范围内执行可持续发展政策，需要进行大规模和长期的过渡，这需要价值观和行为的重大转变。因此，人们越来越关注通过和平合作和广泛接受有利于环境的价值观以及与广泛的可持续性概念有关的价值观，如关心后代的利益和关心穷人，从而实现可持续性的重大社会转型的进程。这包括寻求令人信服的叙述，以确定变革的进程和目标，以及需要培养特性和做法的美德和道德框架，以支持倡导和变革，促进可持续性。这就需要借鉴更丰富的价值观和道德观。我们认为，重要的资源可以在宗教，以及世俗的传统的社会价值观和道德分析。虽然主要宗教已开始在其神学和实践中反映环境问题和可持续性目标，对价值观和行为具有巨大的潜力和实际影响，但很少有研究探讨这一发展的影响和意义;也没有研究它们可以为世俗思想家和可持续发展实践者提供的智力刺激和社会能力。特别是，我们认为，有必要考虑世俗的可持续发展框架的道德和政策和天主教社会教学（CST）的共同利益的概念，最近更新的教皇弗朗西斯整合生态关注和呼吁普遍的“生态转换”和合作之间的亲和力。我们概述了CST和教皇的新的“整体生态”框架的主要特点，并确定亲和力，特别是与埃莉诺奥斯特罗姆的系统的设计原则，可持续管理公地。最后，我们的建议，研究调查的整体生态重构的CST与倡议的价值观和实践的可持续发展的转型变化的相互关系。
It is widely acknowledged that the large-scale and long-term transitions needed to mitigate climate change and to implement policies for sustainable development within planetary boundaries require significant shifts in values and behaviours. Consequently, there is increasing interest in the processes through which major societal transitions for sustainability can occur through peaceful cooperation and widespread embrace of pro-environmental values, and the values associated with the broad concept of sustainability such as care for the interests of future generations and concern for the poor. This encompasses the search for compelling narratives to frame the process and goals of change and the need for the fostering of virtues and ethical frameworks of identity and practice that can underpin advocacy and change for sustainability. This requires drawing on richer sources of values and ethics. We suggest that important resources can be found in religious, as well as secular traditions of social values and ethical analysis. While major religions have begun to reflect environmental concerns and sustainability goals in their theology and praxis, with immense potential and actual influence over value and behaviours, little research has explored the impacts and implications of this development; nor indeed, the intellectual stimulus and social capabilities they can offer to secular thinkers and practitioners in sustainable development. In particular, we argue that there is a need to consider the affinities between secular sustainability frameworks for ethics and policy and the concepts of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) on the Common Good, recently updated by Pope Francis to integrate ecological concern and a call for universal 'ecological conversion' and cooperation. We outline the key features of CST and the Pope's new 'Integral Ecology' framework and identify affinities, in particular, with Elinor Ostrom's system of design principles for sustainable management of commons. We conclude with suggestions for research to investigate the interrelationships of the Integral Ecology reframing of CST with initiatives for transformational change in values and practices for sustainability.