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Seminar for staff, students and public thics and Sustainability: what makes sustainability a good thing?
Dr Dower argues that there is nothing valuable in sustainability unless what is sustained is of value. Much of the contestability of the concept of sustainability are the different views about what is of value: what is worth pursuing, and acceptable ways in which these things are pursued. Ethics comes into answering these questions - for example is it human interests that matter or the interests of other living things? Is it the wellbeing of humans in my community or the world? What ethical constraints operate to limit what we wish to sustain as valuable to us?
Café international - Ethical issues in foreign aid: the why and how of aidAberdeen Foyer Marywell Conference and Training Centre, Marywell Street, Aberdeen AB11 6JF, 6pm
Dr Dower examines the ethical basis for an individual in one country giving aid to help alleviate poverty in another country, covering issues including benevolence and ideas of global justice. Dr Dower also looks at how far these theories apply to corporate bodies such as nation-states, business companies or charitable organisations, the general idea of conditionality in aid, and how far should aid organisations should accept or welcome other aid agencies which have different goals and methods. No booking required.
For more details on both events and biography of Dr Nigel Dower see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sustainable-international-development/ Or contact Susannah Weir on the below email address: