Ecological distribution conflicts and sustainability: lessons from the post-socialist European semi-periphery

Špirić, Jovanka

doi:10.1007/s11625-017-0505-6

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“…Another potential factor may be the eventual lower environmental awareness in PSECs, which may in some cases be due to a lower income [58], although it should be kept in mind that sustainability-orientation of the population is a multi-dimensional construct affected by more factors than material prosperity [59,60]. For the time being, it seems that environmental conflicts have not managed to morph into "creative projects" around CE/RES coops in the region [61].…”

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Is community energy really non-existent in post-socialist Europe? Examining recent trends in 16 countries

Capellán‐Pérez

Johanisová

Young

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Energy Research & Social Science

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Community energy (CE) initiatives are developing in many regions of the world through a great diversity of typologies. Europe has a leading role with thousands of ongoing projects of small and medium size, which are however unevenly distributed over the continent. The density of CE projects is highest in NorthWestern and parts of Central Europe; on the contrary, their spread in postsocialist European countries (PSECs) has been reported to be much more limited. However, the (under)development of CE in PSECs remains an understudied topic in the literature. In this paper, we present an exploratory overview of the situation and briefly discuss its potential explanatory factors for 16 PSECs. We find differing development levels of progress, with Croatia outstanding with a diversity of projects and a certain maturation of the field, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia with a reduced number of rather small-scale projects, while in the remaining countries no operational relevant projects have been found to date. We present our methods, overviews by country and some tentative explanations. We suggest further research to be directed towards in-depth analysis of single countries and relevant project cases in PSECs.

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confidence: 99%

Is community energy really non-existent in post-socialist Europe? Examining recent trends in 16 countries

Capellán‐Pérez

Johanisová

Young

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…This restructuring of funds caused by the metabolic rift -for example, from customary farming to intensive agrobusiness (Dell'Angelo et al, 2021), from artisanal miners to large-scale excavations (Geenen, 2014), and from decentral energy uses based on local biomass to large centralized energy provision infrastructures such as dams (Del Bene et al, 2018) or fossil fuel explorations (Orta-Martínez & Finer, 2010) -has created vast distributional conflicts over who is able to benefit from the environmental benefits and burdens resulting from these transformations. The specific sectors in which these ecological distribution conflicts emerge tend to coincide with the changes in the metabolic profile of the economies undergoing industrialization (Pérez-Rincón et al, 2019;Spiric, 2018). Such processes of so-called development have also provoked many conflicts over the violent transformations of worldviews, values, and livelihood systems towards industrial modes of societies that have left many people with hunger and in poverty (Escobar, 2012).…”

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Does the Social Metabolism Drive Environmental Conflicts?

Scheidel

2023

Studies in Ecological Economics

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Increases in social metabolism drive environmental conflicts. This proposition, frequently found in the literature on ecological distribution conflicts, has stimulated much research at the interface of ecological economics and political ecology. However, under which conditions is this proposition valid and useful? This chapter briefly reviews the theoretical foundations underlying this proposition and discusses further socio-metabolic properties that may shape the dynamics of environmental conflicts. Furthermore, the chapter relates the socio-metabolic perspective to other ‘grand explanations’ of environmental conflicts, particularly, to the expansion of capitalism under a neo-Marxist perspective. The chapter argues that a socio-metabolic perspective has much to offer to understand some of the structural drivers of environmental conflicts. A socio-metabolic perspective links local environmental conflicts to the resource use profiles of economies as well as to global production and consumption systems, no matter whether these are capitalist societies, resource-intensive planning economies, autocratic monarchies, or illicit resource extractions occurring in the shadow economy. The chapter closes by recalling the need to integrate biophysical and social dynamics in a balanced manner for the nuanced study of environmental conflicts.

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“…The third area of study is environmental ethics. Environmental ethics involve the exploration of ecological distribution conflicts and environmental justice as a result of the uneven geographical and social distributions of environmental problems [101,102]. Additionally, intensive resource extraction, waste disposal, and land acquisition are often accompanied by heavy, regionally-based environmental and social burdens [103].…”

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“…Additionally, intensive resource extraction, waste disposal, and land acquisition are often accompanied by heavy, regionally-based environmental and social burdens [103]. Resulting environmental justice movements can reveal new forms of environmental change and preventable injustices while potentially influencing local institutional, technological, or political transformations [102,[104][105][106]. The fourth area of study is enterprise technological innovation and green supply chain management.…”

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Interweaving Industrial Ecology and Ecological Modernization: A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis

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Although industrial activity has brought about rapid economic growth, it also faces the dual challenges of resource constraints and environmental pressure. Industrial ecology (IE) and ecological modernization (EM) are two theories regarding the conceptualization and implementation of sustainable development that emerged from the natural and social sciences, respectively. Over the past three decades, scholars have conducted copious amounts of theoretical and applied research on IE and EM, but comparative studies from an interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship between the two remain relatively rare. On the basis of a bibliometric analysis, this study offers a comprehensive examination of the background, theoretical connotations, and main content of IE and EM, also exploring the role of both theoretical perspectives in the promotion of sustainable industrial development. The findings are fourfold: (1) the research on IE and EM has been increasing year by year, particularly in the past decade; (2) the research is mostly concentrated in developed countries such as the United States and European Union member nations, and contributions from China have increased significantly in recent years; (3) IE has a broader research community than EM and has evolved clearer and more specific research contents and methods; and (4) IE, which analyzes the problems of specific industrial systems, and EM, which constitutes a higher-level institutional policy design, exhibit a trend of cross-fertilization. This study provides a reference for building a more systematic and comprehensive theoretical system of ecological transformation and discusses the future research directions in this field.

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Ecological distribution conflicts and sustainability: lessons from the post-socialist European semi-periphery

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Is community energy really non-existent in post-socialist Europe? Examining recent trends in 16 countries

Is community energy really non-existent in post-socialist Europe? Examining recent trends in 16 countries

Does the Social Metabolism Drive Environmental Conflicts?

Interweaving Industrial Ecology and Ecological Modernization: A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis

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