This volume The Spirit of Sustainability maps out the values territory, helping readers understand the moral worlds, axial concepts, social practices, and major topics related to sustainability. Through a collaboration with the Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE), an established network of leading scholars examine key concepts for understanding and implementing the values and practices of sustainability. Coverage ranges widely, from the promise and problems of global and indigenous religions to major theories in philosophy and environmental ethics, and then to professional practices and social movements. As a whole, the volume describes the various goals of sustainability ecological integrity, economic health, human dignity, fairness to the future, social justice as well as interpretive frameworks for reasoning through their combined challenge.

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