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26 <strong>New</strong> Seminal Environmental Works are still a rare phenomenon in the U.S. So, modesty where it is appropriate, resolution where it is called for. A readable, a stimulating, visionary report on our - as the title rightly puts it - common journey to sustainability. Appeared in: International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 29, No. 4; reprinted in: Environmental Values, Vol. 11, No. 2.
Udo E. Simonis 27 Institutionelle Reformen für eine Politik der Nachhaltigkeit [ Institutional Reform for a Policy of Sustainability ] By Jürg Minsch, Peter-Henning Feindt, Hans-Peter Meister, Uwe Schnei- dewind, and Tobias Schulz In collaboration with Marc Mogalle, Jochen Tscheulin, Claus Wepler, Jür- gen Wüst, and Rold Wüstenhagen Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 1998, XIX + 445 pp. ISBN 3-540-64592-6. Following years of laborious discussion on what long-term environmen- tally sound or (better!) sustainable development really is, five authors, with five assistants, have addressed the question of the means, the 'how.' This they have done on behalf of the Enquete Commission of the 13th German Bundestag on the "Protection of Man and the Environment" – and done it in a way, that must be termed impressive and futile at the same time. The authors start out by pleading for an enlargement of the debate on a policy of sustainability: "The 'what' involved in concretising the goals bound up with the different poles of 'sustainable development' must not ... lose sight of the 'how' of social organisation" (p. VIII). After all, the authors ar- gue, far from being a simple management problem, sustainability is a fu- ture-oriented process of learning, searching, and formative action, one characterized by widespread ignorance and uncertainties, and entailing a broad spectrum of conflicts. By addressing the issue of institutional reform (the title of the study), the task is to determine what shape politics and soci- ety should be given if we are to come closer to sustainability – understood as a regulative idea.
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