Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development

Published by Columbia University Press 2022

Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development

Edited by: Jeffrey D. Sachs , Owen Flanagan , Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo , William Vendley , Anthony Annett and Jesse Thorson
Preface by: Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

https://doi.org/10.7312/sach20286

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About this book

This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts.

Author / Editor information

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University as well as president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and he has been an advisor to three UN secretaries-general.

Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo is a Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Vescovio, Italy, and former chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences.

Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and codirector of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at Duke University.

William Vendley is secretary general emeritus of Religions for Peace International and vice president and senior advisor for religion at the Fetzer Institute.

Anthony Annett is a Gabelli Fellow at Fordham University and senior adviser at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Jesse Thorson is program manager at the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

Reviews

Philip J. Ivanhoe, author of Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected:
I came away from this book with a lot of new information and ideas but also a sense of relief: maybe it isn't too late; maybe humanity and much of the other life on the planet is not irrevocably lost and without hope. Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development brings together a broad coalition of authors from disparate disciplines and shows how all of their work is connected to the pressing need to address environmental degradation.

Ban Ki-moon, former secretary-general of the United Nations:
In Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development, religious leaders of many faiths and scholars of many disciplines address the ethics of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Their message is timely and hopeful: the world’s great religious and ethical traditions share the common commitment to end poverty, assure social justice, and achieve environmental sustainability. The world can indeed come together to build the Future We Want.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
FOREWORD Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: JEFFREY D. SACHS AND OWEN FLANAGAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I ADVANCING THE COMMON GOOD Shared Virtues and Visions of Well-Being
CHAPTER 1 THE VISION AND VALUES OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Jeffrey D. Sachs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
CHAPTER 2 A SOCIAL MOVEMENT TO MAKE THE LAST FIRST Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
CHAPTER 3 VIRTUES ACROSS TRADITIONS Common Ground? Owen Flanagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
CHAPTER 4 SECULAR ETHICS, MORAL CAPITAL, AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Owen Flanagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
CHAPTER 5 THE CURRENT RESURGENCE OF INTEREST IN THE CIVIL ECONOMY PARADIGM Stefano Zamagni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
PART II RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND THE COMMON GOOD
CHAPTER 6 THE CONFUCIAN CONCEPTION OF THE COMMON GOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA Anna Sun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
CHAPTER 7 HINDUISM “Consider the common good in all actions” Anantanand Rambachan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
CHAPTER 8 JUDAISM AND THE COMMON GOOD David Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
CHAPTER 9 BUDDHISM AND THE COMMON GOOD Reverend Kyoichi Sugino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
CHAPTER 10 GREEK ORTHODOXY AND THE COMMON GOOD John D. Zizioulas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
CHAPTER 11 CATHOLICISM AND THE COMMON GOOD Daniel G. Groody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
CHAPTER 12 ISLAM AND THE COMMON GOOD Hamza Yusuf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
PART III AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Poverty
ETHICS IN ACTION TO END POVERTY Consensus Statement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
CHAPTER 13 THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL POVERTY Jeffrey D. Sachs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
CHAPTER 14 ETHICAL ACTIONS TO END POVERTY Anthony Annett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
CHAPTER 15 COMMUNITY-BASED POVERTY REDUCTION Jennifer Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
CHAPTER 16 JUDAISM AND POVERTY David Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
PART IV AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Peace
ETHICS IN ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE AND INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT ON PEACE Consensus Statement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
CHAPTER 17 ON PEACE AND A MORAL FRAMEWORK FOR STATECRAFT Jeffrey D. Sachs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
CHAPTER 18 ADVANCING SHARED WELL-BEING AS A MULTIRELIGIOUS VISION OF POSITIVE PEACE William F. Vendley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
CHAPTER 19 BUILDING PEACE Strategies, Resources, and Religions R. Scott Appleby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
PART V AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Migration
ETHICS IN ACTION Statement on Migration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
CHAPTER 20 THE DRIVERS OF MIGRATION Jeffrey D. Sachs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
CHAPTER 21 A MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE ON REFUGEES Hamza Yusuf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
CHAPTER 22 MIGRATION AND REFUGEES A Christian Perspective Daniel G. Groody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
PART VI AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Businesses as Agents of Sustainable Development
ETHICS IN ACTION Businesses as Agents of Sustainable Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
CHAPTER 23 TOWARD A LAUDATO SI’ COHERENT CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY MANAGEMENT Klaus M. Leisinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
CHAPTER 24 SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT AND ETHICS IN ACTION Kerry Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
CHAPTER 25 THE CASE FOR BUSINESS IN ACHIEVING THE SDGs Jacqueline Corbelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
PART VII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Education
DECLARATION OF THE ETHICS IN ACTION MEETING ON EDUCATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
CHAPTER 26 THE CHALLENGE OF EDUCATION Jeffrey D. Sachs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
CHAPTER 27 WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MEET THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL FOR EDUCATION? Radhika Iyengar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
CHAPTER 28 “ONLY CONNECT” Neuroscience, Technology, and Global Literacy Maryanne Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
PART VIII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Climate Justice
ETHICS IN ACTION Climate Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
CHAPTER 29 CLIMATE DISRUPTION A Personal Journey Into the Ethical and Moral Issues Veerabhadran Ramanathan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
CHAPTER 30 THE RELIGIOUS CASE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CARE Emmanuel Adamakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
CHAPTER 31 HEALTH JUSTICE IS CLIMATE JUSTICE Ted Smith and Christina Lee Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
CHAPTER 32 ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE How Treaties Undermine the Right to a Healthy Environment Lisa Sachs, Ella Merrill and Lise Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
CHAPTER 33 ETHICS IN ACTION AND DIVESTMENT Erin Lothes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
PART IX AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking, and Access to Justice for the Poor and Vulnerable
ETHICS IN ACTION ON MODERN SLAVERY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THE POOR AND VULNERABLE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
CHAPTER 34 ACTUALIZING JUSTICE FOR THE POOR Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
CHAPTER 35 MULTIRELIGIOUS ACTION AGAINST MODERN SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING William F. Vendley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
CHAPTER 36 VIOLENCE AGAINST THE POOR AND ETHICS IN ACTION Sharon Cohn Wu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
PART X AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Indigenous Peoples
DECLARATION BY ETHICS IN ACTION ON THE SDGS AND THE MAGISTERIUM OF POPE FRANCIS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
CHAPTER 37 CARE OF THE EARTH, CARE OF THE SOUL Indigenous Communities and Inner Climate Change Dominique Rankin, Marie-Josée Tardif and Daniel G. Groody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
CHAPTER 38 PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND TRADITIONAL POPULATIONS OF THE AMAZON Virgilio Viana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
PART XI AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Corruption
ETHICS IN ACTION ON CORRUPTION Consensus Statement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
CHAPTER 39 UNDERSTANDING AND COMBATTING CORRUPTION Sean Hagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	392
CHAPTER 40 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN FIGHTING CORRUPTION Jermyn Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	400
PART XII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The Future of Work
ETHICS IN ACTION ON THE FUTURE OF WORK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
CHAPTER 41 UNIONS AND THE FUTURE OF WORK Sharan Burrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	416
CHAPTER 42 THE COMING AI REVOLUTION Is This Time Different? Carl Benedikt Frey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
CHAPTER 43 SLOW BUT SURE Cooperatives and Integral Ecology Nathan Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
CHAPTER 44 THE END OF WORK AS WE KNOW IT A Muslim Perspective Hamza Yusuf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
CONCLUSION Toward a Moral Economy Anthony Annett and Jesse Thorson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Keywords: sustainable development; sustainability; climate change; comparative religion; religious studies; ethics; poverty; environmental justice; the future of work; Sustainable Development Goals; Religions for Peace; Ethics in Action; Pope Francis

eBook

Published: November 16, 2022
ISBN: 9780231554756