Safeguarding our common future : rethinking sustainable development

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This book examines how a phenomenological approach helps move us closer toward safeguarding our common future by evolving a more originative and informed way of thinking about the foundations of sustainable development. Phenomenology, as conceived by Heidegger, enlarges and deepens our ways of thinking about sustainable development and offers a unique methodology of environmental policy development and planning. [from publisher's advertisment].  Read more... I. Problems with Current Thinking about Sustainable Development -- 1. The Challenge of Sustainability in a Postmodern World -- 2. The Brundtland Report and Limits of Techne -- 3. Calculation and Sustainability -- II. Foundations of Phenomenological Thought -- 4. The Possibilities of Originative Thinking -- 5. Ontological Foundations of Environmental Thinking -- 6. Ontology and Ethics -- III. Phenomenological Guidelines for Sustainability -- 7. The Emergence of Place -- 8. Place-Based Ethics -- 9. Phenomenology and Sustainability -- 10. Phenomenology, Sustainability, and the Lived World -- App. Heidegger's Politics.