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| Jensen, Karsten Klint; Forkman, Björn; Sandøe, Peter. |
| Mens konventionelt landbrug blot forpligter sig til at producere, hvad efterspørgslen dikterer, påtager økologisk landbrug sig et etisk ansvar for at producere i overensstemmelse med standarder, der er afledt af økologiens egne værdier og prioriteringer. Dette forhold er formentlig forklaringen på den bredt udtrykte sympati, der hersker for økologien. Men det gør også økologien sårbar i de tilfælde, hvor produktionen ikke synes at leve op til økologiens egne værdier. Gennem en analyse af økologiens værdier identificeres en fundamental prioritering i økologien, nemlig at miljø, dyrevelfærd og menneskelig sundhed skal tjenes gennem et ’sundt’ økosystem, snarere end gennem isoleret behandling af symptomer. Det følger heraf, at hvis dyr, mennesker eller... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Health and welfare; Consumer issues. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/20752/4/20752.pdf |
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| Jensen, Karsten Klint. |
| The widely used concept of sustainability is seldom precisely defined, and its clarification involves making up one’s mind about a range of difficult questions. One line of research (Bottom-Up) takes sustaining a system over time as its starting point and then infers prescriptions from this requirement. Another line (Top-Down) takes as its starting point an economical interpretation of the Brundtland Commission’s suggestion that the present generation’s need-satisfaction should not compromise the need-satisfaction of future generations. It then measures sustainability at the level of society and infers prescriptions from this requirement. These two approaches may conflict, and in this conflict the Top-Down Approach has the upper hand, ethically... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Consumer issues. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/11343/2/11343.pdf |
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| Jensen, Karsten Klint; Forkman, Björn; Sandøe, Peter. |
| Organic farming commits itself to a number of substantial values, and thereby it sets itself apart from conventional farming. In general, conventional large-scale intensive farming only commits itself to producing what the market demands. The market is, of course, regulated by national and international legislation. Within the limits set by legislation, international competition leaves very limited freedom of action for producers. This puts the responsibility for the state of affairs largely on the consumer or legislators.1 If, for instance, consumers would like to have better conditions for farm animals, the conventional farmers would, in theory at least, be happy to provide it as long as a sufficiently large segment of consumers are willing to pay more... |
| Tipo: Working paper |
Palavras-chave: Values; Standards and certification Health and welfare Consumer issues. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18793/4/18793.pdf |
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| Jensen, Karsten Klint. |
| Is it legitimate for a business to concentrate on profits under respect for the law and ethical custom? On the one hand, there seems to be good reasons for claiming that a corporation has a duty act for the benefit of all its stakeholders. On the other hand, this seems to dissolve the notion of a private business; but then again, a private business would appear to be exempted from ethical responsibility. This is what Kenneth Goodpaster has called the stakeholder paradox: either we have ethics without business or we have business without ethics. Through a different route, I reach the same solution to this paradox as Goodpaster, namely that a corporation is the instrument of the shareholders only, but that shareholders still have an obligation to act... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Consumer issues. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/11344/1/11344.doc |
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| Jensen, Karsten Klint. |
| The widely used concept of sustainability is seldom precisely defined, and its clarification involves making up one’s mind about a range of difficult questions. One line of research (Bottom-Up) takes sustaining a system over time as its starting point and then infers prescriptions from this requirement. Another line (Top-Down) takes as its starting point an economical interpretation of the Brundtland Commission’s suggestion that the present generation’s need-satisfaction should not compromise the need-satisfaction of future generations. It then measures sustainability at the level of society and infers prescriptions from this requirement. These two approaches may conflict, and in this conflict the Top-Down Approach has the upper hand, ethically... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Consumer issues. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/11341/1/11341.doc |
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| Jensen, Karsten Klint. |
| Appeals to corporate responsibility often simply take for granted that businesses have ethical responsibilities that go beyond just respecting the law. This paper addresses arguments to the effect that businesses have no such responsibilities. The interesting claim is not that businesses have no ethical responsibility at all but that their primal responsibility is to increase their profits. The extent to which there is reason to take such arguments seriously delineates the limits of corporate responsibility. It is shown that Milton Friedman’s famous right-based argument fails, because it assumes social responsibility to imply that the corporate executive acts against the interests of the share holders. But why should not share holders be ethical... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Consumer issues. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/11340/1/11340.doc |
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