Beyond growth and development: buen vivir as an alternative to current paradigms

Monni, Salvatore; Pallottino, Massimo

doi:10.1504/ijepdm.2015.074300

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“…The emergence of contributions from different disciplines and areas of culture looking to rebuild a worldview that recognizes the importance of nature, human beings and the value of life can be conceived as proof of progress. We find amongst many others: ecological economics (Costanza, Cumberland, Daly, Goodland and Norgaard, 1997;Daly & Farley, 2010), deep ecology (Boff & Berryman, 1977;Capra, 1996), ethics of liberation (Dussel, 2013), political ecology (Escobar, 1996;Leff, 2012;Martinez-Alier, 2002;Porto-Golnçalves & Leff, 2015), buen vivir (Altmann, 2016;Caudillo-Félix, 2012;Endara et al, 2014;Gudynas, 2011;Monni, Pallottino and Pallotino, 2013;Vanhulst & Beling, 2014), eco-feminism (Puleo, 2008;Shiva, 1988), environmental education (Sauvé, 1999) international politic (UN, 2014), promoted by the Andean people and Latin American environmental thinkers (Heyd, 2005;Leff, 2012), and, more recently, Catholic religion (Pope Francis, 2015).…”

Section: Complexity and Transdisciplinarity: Epistemic Tools To Sustamentioning

confidence: 81%

Complejidad y transdisciplina: epistemologías para la sostenibilidad

Ahuerma

Hernández

Ortiz

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Este trabajo constituye una revisión teórica de aportes de diversas áreas del conocimiento a lo largo del último siglo hasta la fecha, entre otros: ciencias naturales, ciencias sociales, filosofía, crítica económica y política internacional, para evidenciar coincidencias entre personas que intentan resolver los problemas socio-ambientales que afligen a la humanidad, estrechamente relacionados con la calidad de vida y el bienestar. El documento analiza el debate académico del concepto de sostenibilidad, que se explica como la forma en que cada grupo social construyó un sistema cultural en torno a la relación con la naturaleza; y argumenta a favor de reconocer que la vida humana, la sociedad y, por lo tanto, su economía como un subsistema humano, son completamente dependientes del mantenimiento de ciclos y equilibrios en el planeta Tierra. Los sistemas sociales humanos se ajustan al perfil de un sistema vivo, un sistema autopoiético, un acoplamiento estructural y funcional de unidades autopoiéticas, dinámicas e inestables, que se dirigen a un futuro impredecible. Se ofrecen consideraciones desde la complejidad y la transdisciplinariedad para superar contradicciones aparentes en dogmas fundamentales y epistemológicos. El diálogo de saberes brinda nuevas cualidades y la posibilidad de incluir otras áreas de la cultura, como el arte, la religión, la política, la economía y los negocios. Busca armonizar los criterios de transformación cultural necesarios para enfrentar la crisis mundial que el ser humano enfrenta actualmente. Concluimos que la dinámica del conocimiento humano ofrece oportunidades para superar las limitaciones actuales que enfrentamos al diseñar e implementar una nueva visión del sistema socio-ecológico sostenible a través del espacio y el tiempo, dentro del soporte vital de la Tierra y con la cultura como interfaz entre ecosistemas y seres humanos.

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confidence: 81%

Complejidad y transdisciplina: epistemologías para la sostenibilidad

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Hernández

Ortiz

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“…Its fortunes are somehow linked to the crisis of orthodox development thinking that opens room for new ideas to be at least considered as a source of inspiration for building alternatives to the current 'mainstream' (Monni and Pallottino, 2013). In this sense, Buen Vivir highlights, among other things, the danger of reductionism and a globalized homogeneous and top-down approach and perhaps even more importantly, the consequences of unbalanced relations, potentially leading to domination.…”

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“…The human development approach represented a real advancement in the development debate, contributing to integrating a vision of human needs that is wider than that based on purely economic terms in the mainstream development thought (Monni and Pallottino, 2013). Even then, the human development approach is, however, based on assumptions that diverge from those of Buen Vivir, on at least two important points.…”

Section: Buen Vivir and Idc: Principles And Possible Linkagesmentioning

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A New Agenda for International Development Cooperation: Lessons learnt from the Buen Vivir experience

Monni¹,

Pallottino²

2015

Development

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The debate on growth and development that has been going on over the last decades has clearly highlighted a number of flaws and contradictions that the theory, as well as the practice, of International Development Cooperation (IDC) has failed to address in a convincing and effective way. IDC, once the prime tool for promoting a change in the livelihoods of the poorest and most vulnerable, is increasingly under scrutiny and does not seem to have provided an effective response to the current crisis. Buen Vivir (good life), Latin America's new concept for collective well-being, which has emerged over recent years from the traditional cosmovisions of Andean indigenous peoples and translated into political and institutional practice, offers elements of reflection on economy, environment and social life that are useful for reframing the way 'well-being' is conceived within the current development setting: a fresh perspective on the most urgent global concerns is particularly useful as the debate regarding the successors to the Millennium Development Goals post-2015 starts to heat up. The new approach to IDC developed in Ecuador in recent years represents an attempt to put some of these elements into practice. However, beyond the experiences in Latin America, that can claim a closer link, albeit not without tensions, with the indigenous peoples with which the Buen Vivir culture has its roots, these suggestions can show an interesting convergence with alternative views on development emerging from the reflections and practices of Western social movements.

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“…Certainly, this will sound utopian to some, but as we argue here, there is (or certainly will be as we continue to come closer to the limits of current modes of production) a shift in government priorities driven by a convergence of public advocacy and international planning that reflects a strong critique of the status quo. 57 Importantly, what we are demonstrating is that beyond utopian vision, organisations and governments are currently pursuing new approaches to policy coherence across sectors as exemplified by recent work at the Pan-American Health Organization, 58 UNDP 59 and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) whose director general has signalled that the role of the FAO is not simply to address hunger, but to work with governments to ensure a healthy food supply. 60 What will be important is to foster this constructive deliberation within government, while continuing to monitor, scrutinise and publicise industry power over such institutional arrangements, a power that has been so detrimental to progress towards healthy product environments.…”

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Intersectoral policy on industries that produce unhealthy commodities: governing in a new era of the global economy?

Lencucha

Thow

2020

BMJ Glob Health

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Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy foods are key contributors to non-communicable diseases globally. Public health advocates have been proactive in recent years, developing systems to monitor and mitigate both health harms and influence by these industries. However, establishing and implementating strong government regulation of these unhealthy product-producing industries remains challenging. The relevant regulatory instruments lie not only with ministries of health but with agriculture, finance, industry and trade, largely driven by economic concerns. These policy sectors are often unreceptive to public health imperatives for restrictions on industry, including policies regarding labelling, marketing and excise taxes. Heavily influenced by traditional economic paradigms, they have been more receptive to industry calls for (unfettered) market competition, the rights of consumers to choose and the need for government to allow industry free rein; at most to establish voluntary standards of consumer protection, and certainly not to directly regulate industry products and practices. In recent years, the status quo of a narrow economic rationality that places economic growth above health, environment or other social goals is being re-evaluated by some governments and key international economic agencies, leading to windows of opportunity with the potential to transform how governments approach food, tobacco and alcohol as major, industry-driven risk factors. To take advantage of this window of opportunity, the public health community must work with different sectors of government to(1) reimagine policy mandates, drawing on whole-of-government imperatives for sustainable development, and (2) closely examine the institutional structures and governance processes, in order to create points of leverage for economic policies that also support improved health outcomes.

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Beyond growth and development: buen vivir as an alternative to current paradigms

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Complejidad y transdisciplina: epistemologías para la sostenibilidad

Complejidad y transdisciplina: epistemologías para la sostenibilidad

A New Agenda for International Development Cooperation: Lessons learnt from the Buen Vivir experience

Intersectoral policy on industries that produce unhealthy commodities: governing in a new era of the global economy?

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