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Research Unit Sustainability and Climate PolicyProf. Dr. Felix Ekardt, LL.M., M.A. |
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Research Unit Sustainability and Climate PolicyProf. Dr. Felix Ekardt, LL.M., M.A. |
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Recent Publications and Speeches
During the last years, the Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy has done a lot of research on questions of phosphorus and scarcity of natural resources, as well as on land-use and climate change - from a transdisciplinary point of view. See, among other papers, here.
Since 2007, Felix Ekardt has given speeches and presentations on some 50 international conferences on questions of sustainability, climate change, justice, human rights, phosphorus scarcity, land-use, etc. For details and also for forthcoming speeches, see the list of presentations.
The Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy has done a lot of research on the normative grounds of sustainability - respectively on the theoretical basis of both ethics and law. The most informative is the big German volume "Theorie der Nachhaltigkeit", but there is also a number of English papers. See, among other papers, here.
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The two hallmarks of the work of Felix Ekardt and his research group are sustainability on one hand and a theory of justice on the other. Both of them are expressed by the logo: Basically, sustainability means (apart from a claim for more global justice) that interests and rights of future generations be considered in today's decisions and that they not be discriminated just because they are future interests. The current of generations is represented by the fading balls. The scale expresses that future rights and today's rights should principally deserve the same weight. Moreover, it symbolises that problems of sustainability are always problems of justice, too. |