Ecological economics and degrowth: Proposing a future research agenda from the margins

Hanaček, Ksenija; Roy, Brototi; Ávila, Sofia; Kallis, Giorgos

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106495

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“…The authors Safonov et al suggest the creation of "new and sustainable business models" that allow nature to be valued, given that 'our health and wellbeing fundamentally depends on it' [52]. A growing body of research and initiatives suggests how we can create a sustainable, welfare-oriented post-growth economy that develops within planetary boundaries [28,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59], including suggesting degrowth scenarios [60,61] especially needed in the Global South [62].…”

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Sustainable Strategic Management Model for Hotel Companies: A Multi-Stakeholder Proposal to “Walk the Talk” toward SDGs

2020

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As we reach the fifth anniversary of the Declaration of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the tourism sector responsible for over 10% of the world’s GDP still does not have an open-source, sustainable management criteria that would enable and empower them to “walk the talk” to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in the social sciences and business management literature by providing a theoretical Sustainable Strategic Management Model (SSMM) proposal for the Fourth Sector (4S), Small- and Medium-sized (SMEs) Hotel companies (4S-SM-HCs), which are committed and have the will to contribute firmly to the 2030 Agenda. Based on their corporate purpose and aligned with the SDGs, this article provides a holistic proposal with a multi-stakeholder approach, adding the SDG perspective. Through a qualitative research methodology based on two focus groups in which the main stakeholders and the management team of the 4S-SM-HC under examination took part, a theoretical SSMM is co-defined so that the hotel company can make significant contributions to the five areas of the SDGs. Basing their structure on the internationally recognized Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Criteria and co-created through social learning, this SSMM proposes four strategic management axis and develops ten principles of ethical performance (PEP). The main contributions of this article are two: (1) to provide an ecosystemic SSMM proposal to the 4S-SM-HCs to allow them to make significant contributions to the SDGs, and (2) to facilitate a methodological framework with a multi-stakeholder approach and SDG perspective to enable them to contribute to the wellbeing of people, the community and the planet.

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Sustainable Strategic Management Model for Hotel Companies: A Multi-Stakeholder Proposal to “Walk the Talk” toward SDGs

2020

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“…Although ecological democracy is positioned as utopian politics, with environmental ethics in mind, leaders should implement it with caution without rejecting technologies and economic development. Exploration of other compatible ideas such as degrowth (Hanaček, et al, 2020 and sustainable development index (Hickel, 2020) would be timely.…”

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Sdgs, Smart Urbanisation and Politics: Stakeholder Partnerships and Environmental Cases in Malaysia

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Malek²,

Hussain³

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Consequent to the declaration of achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by United Nations in 2016, most of the countries with capitalist politics have chosen to adopt "smart urbanisation" as a tool to help them gear up for national development. However, research shows that most countries, including Malaysia, are not on the right track. Thus, this research paper aims to examine the alternative political policies besides that of a capitalist/liberal democracy, such as ecological democracy, that the Malaysian smart urbanisation movement should follow to achieve the SDGs. This study applied the method of case study analysis in examining empirical examples related to stakeholder partnerships and environmental cases in smart urbanisation in Malaysia. This paper argues that achieving the SDGs with the current capitalist hegemony poses a significant challenge to countries. However, with environmental ethics in mind, it is possible to achieve the SDGs with the trust granted by the government in the form of participatory politics. The SDGs also need to be overhauled and rewritten under the realm of ecological democracy. The implications of the findings include creating a call for support for an emerging ecological democracy that is particularly compatible with the SDGs as well as embedded in the natural environment, social and economic developments.

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“…Meanwhile the challenge of equity persists. To make environmental justice a building block of wellbeing, these new narratives about people and the more‐than‐human world in urban spaces need to be written ‘from the margins’ (Hanacek et al., 2020): from the viewpoint of those who are sidelined in a ‘growth economy’ that commodities both people and nature. By doing so, more opportunities may be generated to create UBGS that better supports both the human and more‐than‐human worlds.…”

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Wellbeing and blue‐green space in post‐pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures

Dobson

2021

Geography Compass

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Covid‐19 has focused attention on the importance of urban green and blue spaces (such as parks and watercourses) for human wellbeing. Less attention has been devoted to how those spaces might contribute to a wider rethinking of relations between humans and the more‐than‐human world in post‐pandemic cities. This article outlines how Covid‐19 opens up a broader debate about the future of urban green spaces, especially in the global North, but highlights the limitations of this debate. It signposts emerging directions in inquiry, drawing on current concerns in health geographies and the political ecology of health. These include recognition of the agency and worth of the more‐than‐human world; the need to understand and value wellbeing in terms of relationships between places, nature and people; and the importance of long‐term thinking in practical decision‐making and planning. These shifts can be grounded in everyday practice by rethinking the role of urban blue‐green space, pointing to a research agenda in which ordinary spaces and practices are understood as contributing to assemblages of wellbeing across whole urban areas, rooted in increased connection between humans and the more‐than‐human world.

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Ecological economics and degrowth: Proposing a future research agenda from the margins

Cited by 55 publications

References 68 publications

Sustainable Strategic Management Model for Hotel Companies: A Multi-Stakeholder Proposal to “Walk the Talk” toward SDGs

Sustainable Strategic Management Model for Hotel Companies: A Multi-Stakeholder Proposal to “Walk the Talk” toward SDGs

Sdgs, Smart Urbanisation and Politics: Stakeholder Partnerships and Environmental Cases in Malaysia

Wellbeing and blue‐green space in post‐pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures

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