Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

Arrow, Kenneth J.; Bolin, Bert; Costanza, Robert; Dasgupta, Partha; Folke, Carl; Holling, C. S.; Jansson, Bengt; Levin, Simon A.; Mäler, Karl‐Göran; Perrings, Charles; Pimentel, David

doi:10.1016/0921-8009(95)00059-3

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“…Unlike the case of flow types of pollution, the presence or absence of a Kuznetian functional relationship between income and the indicator of a stock type of environmental quality like forest cover is not clear-cut in the literature (Arrow et al, 1995;Stern, et al, 1996;Ekins, 1997). The present available evidence is mixed, and it varies depending on the sets of countries and time periods selected for the study.…”

Section: Governance Economic Policy and The Environmental Kuznets Cmentioning

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Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forests

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This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the relationship between income and the rate of deforestation of tropical natural forests. The inverted U-shaped relationship known as the environmental Kuznets curve is confirmed here when it is examined for about 60 countries from the tropical regions of Latin America, Africa, and Asia during the period 1980 to 1995. The study focuses on the role of institutions and governing factors and macroeconomic policies in the tropical deforestation process. Results indicate that the quality of governance and underlying institutions are important determinants of forest resource preservation, and that rural population pressure is not as important as suggested by other studies. Agricultural technology improvement and enhanced educational attainment and social development factors also lead to reductions of deforestation rates.1 A selected paper presented at

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Section: Governance Economic Policy and The Environmental Kuznets Cmentioning

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“…Arrow, et al (1995) offered their opinion of the EKC relationship for a stock resource like forests. They asserted that, "An inverted-U relationship has been shown for emissions of pollutants, but is not feasible for stock resources like forest ecosystems.…”

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Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forests

2004

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“…The first addresses the scale of human action in relation to the capacity of the Earth to sustain it, a significant feature of the ecological economics research agenda (Costanza 1991), drawing on work on the essential role of the life-support environment for human wellbeing (Odum 1989, Vitousek et al 1997 and biophysical constraints for the expansion of the economic subsystem (Boulding 1966, Arrow et al 1995. The second is the work on understanding essential Earth System processes (Bretherton 1988, Schellnhuber 1999, Steffen et al 2004, including human actions Munn 1986, Turner et al 1990), brought together in the evolution of global change research towards Earth System science and in the development of sustainability science (Clark and Dickson 2003).…”

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A safe operating space for humanity

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The article presents a study that investigates on the importance of identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries to prevent human activities in affecting environmental condition. The author states the industrial revolution and advancement in human civilization has caused the unstability of the environmental state that is less conducive for humans to live and affect their health condition. The author notes that planetary boundaries served a control variables to secure the safety of its citizen as well as protect the environment from shifting to dangerous levels. It also cites the different planetary boundaries, along with its impact on climate change and Earth system degradation

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“…Current perspectives and worldviews mentally disconnect human progress and economic growth from the biosphere (Arrow et al 1995;O'Brien 2009) and the life-supporting environment, 2 if not simply ignored, has become external to society with people and nature treated as two separate entities. We still seldom account for changes in the capacity of natural capital to sustain human wellbeing in measurements of progress like GDP or the human development index and tend to treat the environment as a sector in policy and decision making.…”

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

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Jansson

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Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant imprint on the Earth System, challenging social-ecological resilience. This new situation calls for a fundamental shift in perspectives, world views, and institutions. Human development and progress must be reconnected to the capacity of the biosphere and essential ecosystem services to be sustained. Governance challenges include a highly interconnected and faster world, cascading social-ecological interactions and planetary boundaries that create vulnerabilities but also opportunities for social-ecological change and transformation. Tipping points and thresholds highlight the importance of understanding and managing resilience. New modes of flexible governance are emerging. A central challenge is to reconnect these efforts to the changing preconditions for societal development as active stewards of the Earth System. We suggest that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability. The ongoing mind shift in human relations with Earth and its boundaries provides exciting opportunities for societal development in collaboration with the biosphere-a global sustainability agenda for humanity.

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Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

Cited by 745 publications

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Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forests

Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forests

A safe operating space for humanity

Reconnecting to the Biosphere

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