Harris, H.Sukhbir, S.McKenzie, S.Harris, H.2025-12-172025-12-172014Source details - Title: Linking local and global sustainability, 2014 / Sukhbir, S., McKenzie, S., Harris, H. (ed./s), vol.4, Ch.4, pp.43-549789401790086https://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/161809The argument most frequently used to justify the call for sustainability in business and life or society more generally is based on notions of distributive justice. This chapter sees a strong link between sustainability and justice, but in a different way, concerned more with the development and exercise of the virtue of justice by individuals. Sustainability is thus more personal, and is something involving personal effort. It is a work of justice. Difficulties with the utilitarian and rights approaches to sustainability as just allocation are discussed. Sustainability is seen as a debate about purpose, about what is to be valued, and movement toward sustainability is to be achieved by a work of justice-engaging in that debate both in the local community and between communities, and developing the virtues, including justice, which will facilitate that debate.enCopyright 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrechtsustainabilityjusticevirtueresponsibilityintergenerational justiceBook chapter10.1007/978-94-017-9008-6_4