Ethics, Sustainability and Future Generations. This project aims to evaluate conceptions of the renowned Principle of Sustainability in terms of their underlying ethical and scientific commitments. It

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Ethics, Sustainability and Future Generations. This project aims to evaluate conceptions of the renowned Principle of Sustainability in terms of their underlying ethical and scientific commitments. It expects to provide a philosophical basis for debating and applying Sustainability, and to advance ethical theory through new models and ways of analysing the possible long-term consequences of choice options. The expected outcomes include a novel conceptual toolkit that can facilitate ethically robust consideration of the future in policy deliberations across diverse contexts. This should provide significant benefits, in addressing a key obstacle to achieving the far-sighted public decision making that is required to safeguard the wellbeing of present and future generations of Australians.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 5003 - Philosophy. Lead: Prof Katie Steele