Responsibility For Future Generations Research Articles

Responsibility to future generations: A strategy for combatting climate change across political divides.

Individuals and governments often fail to take action to address climate change owing largely to widespread politicization of the issue and related discourse. In response to recent appeals for non-partisan approaches to pro-environmentalism, we propose that highlighting one's responsibility to future generations (RFG) could offer promise across the political spectrum. We argue that RFG may be effective because it is widely endorsed, uncorrelated with demographic indicators and less tied to political ideology compared to other forms of responsibility, such as personal responsibility for climate change mitigation. Across six main and seven supplementary studies (N = 161,633), we provide evidence for these claims. RFG is not only widely endorsed across countries and demographic groups but it also significantly predicts various measures of pro-environmental behaviour, both in correlational and pre-registered experimental contexts. These findings confirm established effects, reconcile inconsistencies and suggest prioritizing intergenerational responsibility may effectively reshape climate change narratives for the most resistant parties.

신뢰가 노인세대와 미래세대에 대한 책임감에 미치는 영향

With the intergenerational solidarity as the theoretical background, this study attempted to investigate the effect of trust on responsibility for older and future generations and to confirm whether perception of age-integration plays a mediating role in these relationships. Data from an online survey of 1,000 adult men and women aged 20 to 79 nationwide were used, and the data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. As a result of the analyses, it was found that trust had a significant effect on both responsibility for the older generations and responsibility for future generations. In addition, perception of age-integration had a partial mediating role in these relationships. Practical and policy recommendations were proposed for the sustainable era of low fertility and population aging.

Ventilation and energy efficiency in Air Systems for future buildings: a four dimensions approach

Recent pandemic events are combined with a growing awareness of environmental issues, a general focus on sustainability and responsibility for future generations. All these issues converge towards a general need to improve the performance of buildings and at the same time reduce energy costs. This paper presents four different areas of improvement applicable to air systems on which it is felt that the time has come to focus conceptual and technological efforts. The four dimensions of the proposed improvement are as follows: The reduction of air leakage, the optimization of air diffusion control in VaV applications, the implementation of selective systems for the removal of specific contaminants, the system-wide contextualization of heat recovery from exhaust air. The four directions indicated are considered to offer the greatest potential for optimization in the context of air systems, and this is all the more true if these paths are taken simultaneously. They are aimed at minimizing energy effort (i.e., treated air flow rates) while maximizing performance in terms of maintaining indoor air quality. This can be done by repositioning the boundaries that until now have not allowed the full potential offered by a wise application of variable airflow systems. The approach presented is mainly a performance-based approach re-evaluated in the light of improvements in manufacturing and component characterization technologies, the possibility of considering air systems as a potentially synergistic part of more complex systems, and new sensitivities developed following the advent of pandemic events. The potential improvements in percentage terms from such an action promise to be greater than any single component implementation, but they require a change of attitude on the part of designers and a readiness on the part of manufacturers to work towards the development of standardized procedures applicable on a large scale.

Role models that shaped Scandinavian immunology

Three of Scandinavian immunology's major influencers in the last century (to use modern terminology), Morten Harboe, Jakob B. Natvig and Eric Thorsby, died earlier this year. Three obituaries in this issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology give appreciations of their achievements. The articles provide inspiring recollections of the scientific accomplishments​ of these immunologists, resulting from fascination of then unsolved and mysterious features of immune reactions of humoral and cellular nature. The immunology field has advanced tremendously in the last 50 years. This becomes clear when reading about the questions posed at the start of Harboe's, Natvig's and Thorsby's respective careers. The complexities of the immune system were only starting to be defined back then and in comparison with today, the questions that were asked were much more fundamental in dealing with the overall function of cells and soluble factors. A sense of nostalgia sneaks in, accompanied by a wish to have been part of these early days when we were less concerned by details and more with conceptual problems. However, nostalgia should not be overrated. It is easy to look at the questions asked then in the light of today's methodology and knowledge. In these days, we did not have FACS, we could not sequence and clone genes and the techniques to produce monoclonal antibodies had not been invented. Thus, while exciting conceptually, these time were also frustrating, encompassing complex cellular assays for immune function and indirect results that had to be interpreted cautiously. The complexity of cellular assays remains today, but the possibility and ease by which big unbiased data sets can be generated increases demands ​of definitive conclusions in seminars and in publications. Because of this, we are less inclined to ask, and even less to answer, big fundamental questions, and it is impossible to publish a papers attempting to attack a question broader than what your combination of molecular and cellular assay can manage. I am sure that in the long run, the advancement of science will benefit from all detail that are now provided, but with regard to being a scientist, we have to be careful not to lose the big picture in the ocean of available descriptive data. Major questions regarding the function of immunity as a whole remain, not the least in vivo. The next generation immunologists need to be stimulated by mentors that ask naïve questions, put things into perspective and stimulate creative thinking. This brings me back to the three giants in immunology who recently passed. They all took their roles as mentors very seriously, supervising younger scientists along their whole careers, stimulating them with broad questions that triggered curiosity. Equally important, they also took a broader responsibility for the development of the field, including founding and leading international societies, chairing departments, organizing conferences, and, not the least pivotal, founding and supporting scientific journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology.1 It is very important to recognize these legacies from our predecessors in times when the efforts, resources and engagements it takes by us as scientists to fulfil reviewer's and journal's demands for detail is overwhelming. We must not forget our roles as ambassadeurs for our discipline, a role that increases by increasing seniority. Harboe, Natvig and Thorsby were role models in this respect. By following suit, we take responsibility for future generations and for the development of our discipline.

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The article presents philosophical thoughts which somehow limit the concept of intergenerational justice. Since the mentioned limitations do not apply incoherently, first of all, an attempt has been made to introduce the connection between the terms "intergenerational justice" and "responsibility". Reference is made to the issue of taking responsibility for future generations, as well as to the issue of future generations having rights, in particular to the moral doctrines that exclude the need for the latters. The article addresses Parfitt’s non-identity problem as one of the limitations of the concept of intergenerational justice. The work aims at identifying the disadvantages of moral doctrines built around the concept of intergenerational justice, pointing out the theoretical limitations, which in turn affect the practical field of the problem. One of the goals of the work is to raise the level of awareness on the topic among the public. The article reflects theories of justice, which uniquely presenting the clear imperative of the relations between future generations and present people, conclude that the topic of justice between generations is full of a number of gaps and limitations.

Moral values and environmental responsibility for future generations: case study of Russia

Annotation. Spiritual and moral values and motives are historically the basis of the mental matrix of the Russian citizen, determining the development and acting as a psychological coping mechanism in a crisis. In the modern world, it is spiritual values and motives that are being transformed. Mental protection of a personality based on the integrity of primal archetypes of the collective unconscious, creating mental traits and identity is interrupted, which leads to destructive changes, specifically, deprivation, alienation, deviance. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to identify the features of the transformation of spiritual and moral values of modern Russians. In the course of four sociological studies in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2019 in the regions of Russia, the values of schoolchildren (15-17 years), students (17-22 years), working youth (23-29 years) were studied. The research was based on personal, activity oriented, systemic and subjective approaches. It resulted in the consideration of the dynamics of personal values’ changes from 2007 to 2019, revealing the integrity of basic, spiritual, and moral values, which are fundamental for the personality formation of a Russian living in a particular historical and geographical environment.

The Concept of Imago Dei as a Symbol of Religious Inclusion and Human Dignity

This article aims to examine how the concept of Imago Dei can serve as a symbol for the broadly understood idea of religious inclusion and human dignity. The article explores the concept of Imago Dei primarily from a protological perspective, analyzing its usage in biblical writings, theological tradition and modern philosophy. The substantial, relational and functional—which three usages of the concept can be found in the inclusive theology of Gregory of Nyssa—are analyzed in this article. Arguably, in the context of religious inclusion, the relational angle of Imago Dei seems to be the most important. Similarly contemporary Protestant theologian, Jürgen Moltmann states in his book, God in the Creation, that the “relational” concept of Imago Dei underscores the fundamental dignity of every person. In his book, God for Secular Society, Moltmann states that properly understood human rights should include democratic relationships between people, cooperation between societies, concern for the environment in which people live, and responsibility for future generations. From these perspectives, the concept of Imago Dei can be utilized as a symbol indicating the dignity of every person and human community, but also a symbol against any types of racism, nationalism or xenophobia.

Desafios da Inovação Tecnológica para a Sustentabilidade Intergeracional

A inovação tecnológica causa inquietações entre preservar os valores de sustentabilidade ou atender à pressão de agentes econômicos pela exploração do “novo”. Com esses pressupostos, utilizando-se o método dedutivo, serão analisados os desafios da inovação tecnológica para a sustentabilidade intergeracional. Considera-se que esses temas estão relacionados a valores e a direitos fundamentais do ser humano que superam as percepções do presente, envolvendo a responsabilidade com as futuras gerações.

A Behavioral Economics Approach to Sustainability Reporting

Globalization has led to an unprecedented correlation of massive global systems causing systemic risk to increase exponentially (Centeno et al., 2013). 10 years after the global financial crisis, what are the lessons learned, what was improved and what still needs to be accomplished? The crucial question remains: has the global financial system and with that the world become less susceptible for a reoccurrence of a financial crisis? What are the factors to achieve a sustainable finance architecture with stable economic markets? In the aftermath of the 2008/09 world financial downturn the interest in understanding non-financial factors and interplay to financial markets increased. A system can only be sustainable if inequality, governance and environmental sustainability is surmounted. According to Beyer et al., significant progress was made in the modelling, as the Global Financial Crisis revealed shortcomings in the model strategy (Beyer et al., 2017). The question arises if also progress is made on social responsibility investing in the securities, selected for social environmental ethical and institutional aspects? Based on the EU led High-Level Expert Group on Sustainability (Cullen, 2018) the EU examines how to integrate sustainability consideration into its financial policy framework. The EU plans to develop a classification system (‘taxonomy’) on what can be considered an environmentally sustainable economic activity. To overcome the climate change challenge, a consensus has a pivotal role to enable to invest in climate friendly investments, which do not turn out to be a false labelling. The global architecture of climate finance is important part of a sustainable finance architecture. Additionally, disclosure regulation is planned that institutional investors integrate ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors into their investment-decision making process. In the absence of a globally integrated financial and non-financial framework, this paper tries to put emphasis back on decision-usefulness of the investor and a Sustainability Taxonomy considering the transparency technology Extensible Reporting Mark-up language (XBRL). This working paper tries to bridge early statements about environment and the responsibility for future generations in the financial service sector(Kipper, 2017).

A Behavioral Economics approach to a Sustainable Finance Architecture – Development of a Sustainability Taxonomy for Investor Decision Usefulness

Globalization has led to an unprecedented correlation of massive global systems causing systemic risk to increase exponentially (Centeno et al., 2013). 10 years after the global financial crisis, what are the lessons learned, what was improved and what still needs to be accomplished? The crucial question remains: has the global financial system and with that the world become less susceptible for a reoccurrence of a financial crisis? What are the factors to achieve a sustainable finance architecture with stable economic markets? In the aftermath of the 2008/09 world financial downturn the interest in understanding non-financial factors and interplay to financial markets increased. A system can only be sustainable if inequality, governance and environmental sustainability is surmounted. According to Beyer et al., significant progress was made in the modelling, as the Global Financial Crisis revealed shortcomings in the model strategy (Beyer et al., 2017). The question arises if also progress is made on social responsibility investing in the securities, selected for social environmental ethical and institutional aspects? Based on the EU led High-Level Expert Group on Sustainability (Cullen, 2018) the EU examines how to integrate sustainability consideration into its financial policy framework. The EU plans to develop a classification system (‘taxonomy’) on what can be considered an environmentally sustainable economic activity. To overcome the climate change challenge, a consensus has a pivotal role to enable to invest in climate friendly investments, which do not turn out to be a false labelling. The global architecture of climate finance is important part of a sustainable finance architecture. Additionally, disclosure regulation is planned that institutional investors integrate ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors into their investment-decision making process. In the absence of a globally integrated financial and non-financial framework, this paper tries to put emphasis back on decision-usefulness of the investor and a Sustainability Taxonomy considering the transparency technology Extensible Reporting Mark-up language (XBRL). This working paper tries to bridge early statements about environment and the responsibility for future generations in the financial service sector (Kipper, 2017).

Climate Change: Implications for Parents and Parenting

SYNOPSISThis tutorial draws together research on the impacts of climate change on children and youth, and suggests how parents, and parenting researchers, educators, and professionals, can engage with climate change. We start with an overview of the science of climate change and highlight the urgency of action to restore a safe climate for future generations. Then we discuss three major types of impact of climate change on children and youth: first, their greater vulnerability to its impacts on health and well-being due to physiological immaturity and dependency, a vulnerability that is greatly exacerbated for children in disadvantaged circumstances; second, evidence of widespread worry about climate change among children and youth, and their need for support and empowerment to respond adaptively to these anxieties; and third, the need to prepare the next generation for demands for massive changes in lifestyles as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy. We follow with a review of evidence about how parents can support their children through actively engaging with the issue themselves and through communication and other strategies that help build children’s hope, efficacy, resilience, and engagement. We then discuss the multiple important roles that parenting researchers and professionals can play in addressing climate change, concluding that those of us with responsibility for future generations need to recognize climate change as an urgent challenge.

The Ethics of Responsibility – Responsibility for Future Generations

The basic issue addressed in this paper is responsibility conceived in the perspective of global responsibility and, within its framework, responsibility for future generations. In the face of growing threats and crisis phenomena the category of responsibility has gained a fundamental meaning. Responsibility may be considered in the context of the past and presence, but it should also be analyzed as referring to the future. The paper will elucidate main understanding of responsibility; the notion and value of responsibility will be analyzed in close relation to the notions and values of solidarity, justice, and community thinking and action.

Disconnected futures: exploring notions of ethical responsibility in energy practices

This article aims to explore people's connections to or disconnections from the future and the implications of this for their perspectives on equity, justice and ethical issues related to energy consumption. Everything people do is embedded and extended in time across the modalities of past, present and future, making time an inescapable aspect of our existence, yet one that often remains invisible and intangible. Debates about energy and environmental equity have raised questions about the extent to which people today should bear responsibility for the consequences of their behaviour for future generations. Seemingly intractable difficulties have been identified, however, in people's abilities to connect their present actions with their potential future consequences and thus take on such responsibilities. Drawing on data from interviews about energy consumption practices, this article explores whether people's living temporal extensions through younger generations of their families influence their views and practices around energy use in both the present and anticipated future. Through exploring these issues we offer a contribution to the ethical debate around responsibility for future generations.

Spirituality and business: An interdisciplinary overview

The paper gives an interdisciplinary overview of the emerging field of spirituality and business. It uses insights from business ethics, theology, neuroscience, psychology, gender studies, and philosophy to economics, management, organizational science, and banking and refers to different religious convictions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, the Baha’i faith, and the North-American aboriginal worldview. The authors argue that the materialistic management paradigm has failed. They explore new values for post-materialistic management: frugality, deep ecology, trust, reciprocity, responsibility for future generations, and authenticity. Within this framework profit and growth are no longer ultimate aims but elements in a wider set of values. Similarly, cost-benefit calculations are no longer the essence of management but are part of a broader concept of wisdom in leadership. Spirit-driven businesses require intrinsic motivation for serving the common good and using holistic evaluation schemes for measuring success. The Palgrave Handbook of Business and Spirituality, edited by the authors, is a response to developments that simultaneously challenge the “business as usual” mindset.

Challenges to Sustainable Development in Island Tourism

Challenges to Sustainable Development in Island Tourism Every participant in the life of a local community, hence the local community of the island of Krk as well, must develop an awareness of how they can cooperate in the improvement of quality, environmental protection and safety. This awareness can be achieved through constant education, and the improvement and perfection of all the destination factors for the island of Krk. With the preventive measures of environmental protection and optimal resources usage in the construction projects and management of the island of Krk, as well as waste management practices (the system known as "The Eco Island of Krk"), the island of Krk has to become an example, aware of its responsibility for future generations and the need for sustainable development. Open communication and partner relations with the social community and all interested parties, primarily those related to environmental protection and tourist and visitor safety, must be main factors in the future sustainable development of the island. The adoption of an environmental management system as one of the strategic baselines of the sustainable development of the island provides it with a comparative advantage on the tourism market, thus defining it as an "eco island" with the fulfillment of all legal and other obligations, and satisfying the demands of tourists, the local community and the public, all with the goal of more successful environmental protection.

Problem argumentacji z odpowiedzialności za przyszłe pokolenia

The growing ability to modify the biological structure of living organisms afforded today by progress in biology produces understandable unease. This unease is expressed, among other things, in argumentation based on “responsibility for future generations”. This argumentation obliges us to be concerned with the fate of our species. Such concern has negative as well as positive dimensions. The former consists of preventing the birth of handicapped persons or limiting the population; the latter consists of creating new structures. Gen-ethics, a new subdiscipline of bioethics that addresses the above argumentation explicitly, considers responsibility for the number and identity of future human beings; this responsibility is seen to rest upon the present generation. Since future generations do not yet exist, this responsibility seems to have as its object not concrete persons, but the environmental and social context that we will leave for future generations.

The Army, readiness, and sustainability

AbstractEmerging as a principal theme of the new millennium, sustainability is based in collaboration for problem solving—as opposed to confrontation and intransigence. Sustainability concerns the environment, the economy, and social equity. Each April 22 (the anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970—as well as the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency) provides a symbolic context as we move beyond compliance and link America's environmental performance to our future needs. Sustainability is inspired by our appreciation for the goodness of nature and God's gifts to us all. It is amplified by the freedom with which we have been blessed as a nation. It is a journey—a path forward—through which we can demonstrate responsibility for future generations. And securing our nation's freedom implies a non‐negotiable demand on our Army to be ready for the task. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Environmental Issue Area and Game Theory.

The impact of international cultural, political, social, military, scientific, environmental and economic events has never been more vividly felt than today and the ‘challenge of global change’ has been created. Today there are many pressing regional and global problems. The planet is under stress and so are various scientific paradigms. To solve the new problems, international multilateral action is needed and increasingly sought. Mutual and not sporadic cooperation is the most prudent policy, the most effective means to attain set environmental goals such as clean air, clean water and clean soil. As to cooperation, national actions taken by state authorities cannot abolish any of these problems, but regional or preferably global, international multilateral action must be taken to meet the new demands. Responsibility for future generations is the key. Which is preferred: growth at any cost with widespread ecological destruction or sustainable development with cleaner water, air and environment? What is prudent policy? Cooperation or competition? Do we need long-term planning instead of short-term planning and gains? These are the key questions which this paper seeks to answer.

Responsibilities to Future Generations

Responsibilities to Future Generations

Rights over One's Own Body: A Woman-Affirming Health Care Policy

This article reviews several different areas in health care for women in which conceptual and ideological problems arise because of the nature of the health care system. Initial attention is directed to how the very language that is used in health care policymaking and discussion is patriarchal in its origin and implication. The philosophical stance of the authors is illustrated with examples from the chemical and surgical manipulations of womens bodies in reproductive medicine. Final attention is directed to the issue of informed consent. The right over ones body which is advocated is a liberty right rather than a claim right and such a right would specify that no decision about any manipulation of a womans body should be made unless it is the active decision of the woman herself. Female critics of medicalization and of the medical profession seem to assume that womens mistreatment on the part of the medical profession is wrong because the injured entity is the womans own body but Ketchum believes that it is a misconception to think of bodies as things one owns. To extend property rights to ones body seems inappropriate in a moral sense. A woman is her body; she does not it. Physicians the pharmaceutical industry and frequently women themselves generally believe that women do not have the detailed specialized knowledge to make decisions about contraceptives but who does. Additionally the information upon which such decisions are based should not be limited to technical information. There are several other factors to consider: personal; the unknowns in biological science; the dangers that can be perceived by the patient intuitively or experientially; and the interplay of the psychosomatic effects of all manipulations to womens bodies. When women allow patriarchal culture to sell them short-term benefits without concern about longterm well being they have lost sight of their true nature. Women if they wish may refuse to be involved in responsibility for future generations but they should not let others abdicate this responsibility for them. The ethical point is that health care should provide safe and comfortable medical solutions to health problems and it is up to each individual woman to define her problem as she sees fit within her range of values and ethical principles.