Document Type
Article
Title
Intergenerational Bargains: Negotiating our debts to the past and our obligations to the future
Publication Title
Futures
Publisher
Elsevier
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Publication Date
11-2013
Publisher location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
First Page
43
Last Page
52
Volume Number
54
Abstract/ Summary
The question of intergenerational obligation can be framed in multiple ways. Here, we use the idea of bargains to think about how those of us in the present relate to both the past and the future. To understand this approach assumptions behind the idea of intergenerational bargains are posited, three potential ontologies for intergenerational thinking are explored, and principles that might be applied to intergenerational obligations are considered. Finally, an ethic for intergenerational obligation is proposed. The idea of intergenerational bargains reveals common frameworks among futures studies, ecological economics, and sustainability science.
Repository Citation
Anderson, Mark W., "Intergenerational Bargains: Negotiating our debts to the past and our obligations to the future" (2013). Publications. 25.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mitchellcenter_pubs/25
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Anderson, M.W. 2013. Intergenerational bargains: negotiating our debts to the past and our obligations to the future. Futures. 54:43-52.
Publisher Statement
© 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
DOI
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2013.10.002
Version
post-print (i.e. final draft post-refereeing with all author corrections and edits)
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