Years on from the 1987 Brundtland Report, it has become clear that formidable challenges confront policy makers who have publicly stated their commitment to the goal of sustainable development. This text provides an account of the progress made in fleshing out these issues.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The New Workplace Reality -- The Changing Nature of Leadership -- The Changing Role of the Manager -- The Changing Role of HR -- The Changing Role of the Employee -- Building on These Change…
"The environmental crisis, one of the great challenges of our time, tends to disenfranchise those who come after us. Arguing that as temporary inhabitants of the earth, we cannot be indifferent to future generations, this book draws on the resources of phenomenology and poststru…
Why should we care what happens to future generations? Samuel Scheffler argues that we are more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize. Implicit in our own attachments are powerful reasons for wanting the chain of human generations to persist into the indefi…
by Berger, Peter A., Hank, Karsten, Tölke, Angelika, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Sektion Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Sektion Familiensoziologie, Gemeinsame Tagung der Sektionen "Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse" und "Familiensoziologie" in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Rostock
Eine wesentliche Erkenntnis der Ungleichheitsforschung bezieht sich darauf, dass bei der Analyse sozialer Ungleichheit nicht das einzelne Individuum, sondern auch der Haushalt und die Familie in den Blick genommen werden müssen. Familien sind mächtige Instanzen lebenslanger inte…
The essays selected for this volume show how relations between past, current and future generations have become a major subject of philosophical research since the 1970s. The relations between people alive today with people who may exist in the future and people now deceased, di…
The essays selected for this volume show how relations between past, current and future generations have become a major subject of philosophical research since the 1970s. The relations between people alive today with people who may exist in the future and people now deceased, di…
