Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly

Daly, Herman E.

doi:10.4337/9781847206947

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“…It is appreciated that such taxes need very careful design and a global implementation strategy if they are to work. Herman Daly makes a compelling case for shifting from income taxation to forms of resource taxation in the form of ecological taxes (Daly 2007). This necessarily entails protecting remaining commons and limiting the further expansion of the economy into the eco-system, what in Polanyian terms would result in a decommodification of nature.…”

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confidence: 99%

Translating Degrowth into Contemporary Policy Challenges: A Symbiotic Social Transformation Strategy

Murphy¹

2013

Irish Journal of Sociology

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Wright poses us the challenge of building a world of equality while working in the world of today. This article addresses the challenge of transitioning to a degrowth economy and eco-socialism which focuses on distribution over production and which requires a strong ethic of equality at the heart of society. Degrowth aims to address over-consumption by addressing real need, reducing wants, ensuring greater distributive equality and ultimately by suppressing production. However, the detailed mechanisms of how a steady-state economics can provide a quality of life and employment, eliminate poverty and promote an egalitarian society require immense work to flesh out. This article points in the desired direction of travel and outlines some initial steps. It fleshes out two key obstacles to degrowth, the issue of employment and the impact for revenue and expenditure arising from a move towards degrowth. It points to the relevance of degrowth arguments for feminist and democratic movements and how the degrowth strategy offers potential for new political coalitions. It concludes by reflecting on the limitations of symbiotic transformative strategies and the need for a language capable of imagining and articulating real utopias.

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Section: Taxationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translating Degrowth into Contemporary Policy Challenges: A Symbiotic Social Transformation Strategy

Murphy¹

2013

Irish Journal of Sociology

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“…Such a reform would internalize external costs, thus increasing efficiency [95]. It is possible to impose throughput taxes on resource depletion or on waste emissions.…”

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

Costanza¹,

Alperovitz²,

Daly³

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“…Not only do our current institutions and instruments fail to address the real crisis, they accomplish mutually reinforcing goals that move us in the wrong direction. No attention is given to the relationship between the biophysical crises and the market economy, although continuous economic growth in the wealthy countries is actually a major cause of the biophysical crises (46). International trade institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability: The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies

Beddoe¹,

Costanza

Farley

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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A high and sustainable quality of life is a central goal for humanity. Our current socio-ecological regime and its set of interconnected worldviews, institutions, and technologies all support the goal of unlimited growth of material production and consumption as a proxy for quality of life. However, abundant evidence shows that, beyond a certain threshold, further material growth no longer significantly contributes to improvement in quality of life. Not only does further material growth not meet humanity's central goal, there is mounting evidence that it creates significant roadblocks to sustainability through increasing resource constraints (i.e., peak oil, water limitations) and sink constraints (i.e., climate disruption). Overcoming these roadblocks and creating a sustainable and desirable future will require an integrated, systems level redesign of our socio-ecological regime focused explicitly and directly on the goal of sustainable quality of life rather than the proxy of unlimited material growth. This transition, like all cultural transitions, will occur through an evolutionary process, but one that we, to a certain extent, can control and direct. We suggest an integrated set of worldviews, institutions, and technologies to stimulate and seed this evolutionary redesign of the current socio-ecological regime to achieve global sustainability.cultural adaptation ͉ ecology ͉ societal decline T he history of human-dominated socio-ecological systems is one of successive climbs to regional prominence followed by crises that were either successfully addressed, leading to sustainability, or not, leading to decline. Historical research demonstrates that crises leading to a society's decline do not result from a single, easily identifiable cause with easily identifiable solutions (1-4). They usually result from the human-dominated ecosystem moving to a brittle, nonresilient state caused by internal changes or external forcings (2,5,6).For example, the earth's climate has gone through natural and often abrupt variations, creating new conditions, persistent for decades and centuries, that were unfamiliar to the inhabitants of the time (5). Dramatic effects and societal decline, however, occur only when socioecological systems have become brittle and unable to adapt due to other causes (1-4), including deforestation and habitat destruction, soil degradation (erosion, salinization, and soil fertility losses), water management problems, overhunting, overfishing, effects of invasive alien species, human population growth, and increased per capita impact of people. Some ancient civilizations that were not able to adapt to climate change, leading to their demise, include:Y The Akkadian empire of Mesopotamia, where a shift to more arid conditions contributed to abrupt collapse about 6,180 years ago (7). Y Parts of low-latitude northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia, where severe drought caused major disruption about 4,300 years ago (8). Y The Tiwanaku civilization of the central Andes, where a prolonged period of drought...

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Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly

Cited by 275 publications

References 6 publications

Translating Degrowth into Contemporary Policy Challenges: A Symbiotic Social Transformation Strategy

Translating Degrowth into Contemporary Policy Challenges: A Symbiotic Social Transformation Strategy

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

Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability: The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies

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