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DOI	10.1111/jiec.13472
	Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments
	Heide, Mia; Gjerris, Mickey
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1088-1980
EISSN	1530-9290
英文摘要	Currently used sharing principles (grandfathering and final consumption expenditure) do not align with the purpose of Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessments (AESAs)-enabling all to meet basic needs within the planetary limits. This discrepancy, though niche within life cycle engineering, demands attention due to the integration of the sharing principles in the widely adopted Science Based Targets initiative, embraced by 4000+ companies, representing over a third of the global economy. This paper suggests operationalizing sufficientarianism as a fair sharing principle for AESAs guaranteeing a minimum threshold of well-being for all. The theory of human needs is highlighted to distinguish luxuries from necessities. This is vital when assigning shares to products/companies, as there's no room for luxuries (products for someone which cause others to fall short), given the extremely limited individual safe operating space, regardless of the sharing approach. This paper argues that sufficientarian-based sharing principles must overlook historically skewed material welfare distributions to ensure no one falls below the minimum threshold. It underscores the need for an interdisciplinary approach to sharing principles, acknowledging and discussing diverse value perspectives on equal grounds. The focus is to inform and discuss the development of new sharing principles, which introduces initial steps toward a sufficientarian-based approach. The paper concludes that recognizing embedded values is paramount in sharing principle development. Failing to do so risks letting quantifiable metrics dictate the values integrated into AESAs without open discourse.
英文关键词	absolute sustainability; climate targets; distributive justice; ethics; human rights; industrial ecology
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001198235000001
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/296971
作者单位	Technical University of Denmark; University of Copenhagen
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Heide, Mia,Gjerris, Mickey. Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments[J],2024.
APA	Heide, Mia,&Gjerris, Mickey.(2024).Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments.JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY.
MLA	Heide, Mia,et al."Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments".JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY (2024).