Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature

Costanza, Robert; Alperovitz, Gar; Daly, Herman E.; Farley, Joshua; Franco, Carol; Jackson, Tim; Kubiszewski, Ida; Schor, Juliet B.; Victor, Peter A.

doi:10.22459/bsdesn.12.2013

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“…Thus, this paper is one of a growing number that apply post-Keynesian theory to ecological economics and sustainability (Guarini and Porcile 2016;Taylor et al 2016;Guarini 2015). We follow ecological economics in viewing economies as open systems embedded in societies, which are embedded in nature (Costanza et al 2012). From evolutionary economics we draw the idea that economies are normally out of equilibrium (Schumpeter 1928;Nelson and Winter 1982), and from Blatt (1983) that the average state of the economy may differ substantially from the equilibrium.…”

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Downshifting in the Fast Lane: A Post-Keynesian Model of a Consumer-Led Transition

Kemp-Benedict

Ghosh

2018

Economies

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Abstract:If the world's countries seriously tackle the climate targets agreed upon in Paris, their citizens are likely to experience substantial changes in production, consumption, and employment. We present a long-run post-Keynesian model for studying the potential implications of a major transition on macroeconomic stability and employment. It is a demand-led model in which firms have considerable but not absolute freedom to administer prices, while household consumption exhibits inertia. Firms continually seek input-saving technological improvements that, in aggregate, tie technological progress to firms' cost structures. Together with firm pricing strategies and wage setting, the productivities of different inputs determine the functional income distribution. Saving and investment, and production and purchase of consumption goods, are undertaken by different economic actors, driven by income and capacity utilization, with the possibility that productive capacity exceeds, or falls short of, effective demand. The model produces business cycles and long waves driven by technological change. We present results for a "downshifting" scenario in which households voluntarily withdraw labor, and discuss the implications of downshifting for stability, growth, and employment. We contrast the downshifting scenario with ones in which households reduce consumption without withdrawing from the labor pool.

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confidence: 99%

Downshifting in the Fast Lane: A Post-Keynesian Model of a Consumer-Led Transition

Kemp-Benedict

Ghosh

2018

Economies

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“…Representatives of the radical change paradigm refuse to accept the definition of welfare solely in terms of levels of consumption and the characterization of work as purely paid labor [4,5,23]. Radical change perspectives regarding employment are based upon the idea that different mental and institutional frameworks can be constructed under which the meaning of human needs and work can be redefined [24].…”

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“…These new meanings of work would make way for changes and open opportunities in community work, social enterprises, as they would no longer be merely a haven for those crowded out of the labor market. The shift from material consumption to fulfilling other human needs would not only help current employment problems but also lead to environmental sustainability [4,5]. Hence, redefining our perspectives towards work itself constitutes a major factor in sustainable employment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Even though -sustainable employment‖ as a term hardly ever occurs, the attractive assumption that greening our economy will create, rather than destroy, jobs, as we define them today, prevails. However, some argue that environmentally and socially sustainable employment requires more than greening the mainstream, market-and growth-oriented, development path [4][5][6].…”

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Backcasting for Sustainable Employment: A Hungarian Experience

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Sustainability and employment are terms seldom used together. Especially when defining sustainability in the stricter sense of the word, delineating a world where strong sustainability is the norm, it is problematic to deduct which elements may compose sustainable employment. In the relevant discourse, two distinct directions can be identified. Ecological modernization promises -quick fixes‖ to employment problems while reducing environmentally harmful economic activities without initiating major changes either in our ways of thinking or in our way of living. At the same time, the radical change paradigm disposes of the concepts of the free market society and believes that new -great transformations‖ are unavoidable, whereby values must change just as much as institutions. Yet, how far have these normative theoretical approaches penetrated our everyday thinking? The paper builds upon the experience of a backcasting project on sustainable employment conducted in Hungary in 2012 and early 2013 and suggests that when people are given the chance to leave the path dependencies of today behind and imagine a sustainable future, their normative visions provide us with invaluable insight as to what may constitute sustainable employment. It also contributes towards our understanding of which policy tools lead us towards a more sustainable world of work in particular and a more sustainable society in general.

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“…Durante muito tempo, a economia de mercado não considerou os impactos de suas atividades sobre o meio ambiente, excluindo qualquer conexão entre sistemas ecológicos e as atividades de consumo e produção dos sistemas econômicos (Costanza et al, 2012). Dentro do esquema de fluxo monetá-rio, o capital natural não era considerado, sendo este relegado a mera "externalidade" (Cavalcanti, 2010), a qual pode ser definida como os efeitos que afetam um agente, mas são desempenhados pelas atividades de outros agentes (Tietenberg & Lewis, 2012).…”

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Aplicabilidade, potenciais e desafios dos Pagamentos por Serviços Ambientais para conservação da água no sul do Brasil

Santos

Silvano

2016

Desenvolv. Meio Ambiente

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Artigo recebido em 23 de outubro de 2015, versão final aceita em 19 de julho de 2016. RESUMO:Os Pagamentos por Serviços Ambientais (PSA) se inserem num contexto global em que a economia de mercado não pode mais desconsiderar os recursos e usos da natureza, tendo que considerá-la como um de seus componentes, a fim de que os seres humanos possam exercer suas atividades de forma não nociva aos ecossistemas. Nesse sentido, práticas de incentivo que estimulem ou reforcem atitudes conservacionistas são essenciais. Para se considerar os PSA efetivos, tem-se que verificar uma série de fatores, tais como os custos de transação e oportunidade, o efeito da permanência, do vazamento e da adicionalidade, que este trabalho procurou aplicar na análise de seis programas de PSA existentes na Região Sul do Brasil voltados à conservação de recursos hídri-cos. Os padrões observados foram a dificuldade em lidar com custos de transação e oportunidade, bem como o efeito da falta de permanência. Porém, os programas de PSA incentivaram uma mudança de comportamento por parte dos proprietários fornecedores de serviços ambientais, estimulando a conservação da água. Desse modo, possíveis programas de PSA a serem implementados na APA do Banhado Grande, sul do Brasil, representam uma forma de promover a conservação de áreas úmidas, que prestam importantes serviços ambientais, com o intuito de minimizar os conflitos entre meio ambiente e atividades humanas, como a rizicultura.Palavras-chave: serviços ecossistêmicos; economia ecológica; reflorestamento; matas ciliares.ABSTRACT: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are part of a global context in which the market economy can no longer ignore nature's resources and how it is used, having to consider it as one of its components, so that human beings can exercise their activities in a way that is not harmful to the ecosystems. In this sense, it is essential to incentive practices that strengthen conservative attitudes. To consider the actual PES, we have to check a number of factors, such as: transaction costs and opportunity, the effects of permanence, leakage and additionality; which this paper sought to apply by analyzing six PES programs aiming the conservation of water resources in Southern Brazil. The observed patterns were: the difficulty in dealing with transaction costs

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Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature

Abstract: Cover images:(Left Top) by Eric Rasmussen/InSTEDD. Virgin rainforest north of Balikpapan near the eastern coast of Borneo has been clear-cut to allow for the continued planting of millions of acacia trees for pulp products and plywood.

Cited by 38 publications

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Downshifting in the Fast Lane: A Post-Keynesian Model of a Consumer-Led Transition

Downshifting in the Fast Lane: A Post-Keynesian Model of a Consumer-Led Transition

Backcasting for Sustainable Employment: A Hungarian Experience

Aplicabilidade, potenciais e desafios dos Pagamentos por Serviços Ambientais para conservação da água no sul do Brasil

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