Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society www.surv-perspect-integr-environ-soc.net 1993-3800 1993-3819 1 1 2008 10.5194/sapiens-1-39-2008 http://www.surv-perspect-integr-environ-soc.net/1/39/2008/ http://www.surv-perspect-integr-environ-soc.net/1/39/2008/sapiens-1-39-2008.html http://www.surv-perspect-integr-environ-soc.net/1/39/2008/sapiens-1-39-2008.pdf 39 49 2008-05-15 Theories of intergenerational justice: a synopsis A. Gosseries Permanent Research Fellow, Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS), Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale, 3, Place Montesquieu – 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium In this paper, the author offers a synoptic view of different theories of intergenerational justice, along two dimensions (savings/dissavings) and three modalities (prohibition, authorisation, obligation). 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