Pillars for a flourishing Earth: planetary boundaries, economic growth delusion and green economy

Kosoy, Nicolás; Brown, Peter; Bosselmann, Klaus; Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar; Mackey, Brendan; Martínez-Alier, Joan; Rogers, Deborah S.; Thomson, Robert Ellis

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.02.002

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“…A crucial question facing the collection of ideas and initiatives clustering around the green economy is their stance towards economic growth (Davies and Mullin 2011;Jackson 2011;Kosoy et al 2012). In essence, to what extent are continued commitments to existing or modified growth orientations reconcilable with green economy ideals or is deeper questioning of traditional growth concepts required?…”

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“…Other observers are less guarded about associating the green economy with largely conventional, growth-centred capitalism, and criticize the concept for ignoring demand-side issues and reproducing concepts that create new avenues and arenas for wealth accumulation that may only coincidentally address environmental and social concerns (Kosoy et al 2012;Newell 2012). Caprotti (2012) similarly observes how front-line actors like cleantech investors are utilizing discursive logics that emphasize resource efficiency, growth and profit maximization in order to establish their identity and fuel capital towards technological responses to environmental issues.…”

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The green economy and post‐growth regimes: opportunities and challenges for economic geography

Schulz

Bailey

2014

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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While mainstream economic geography is doing increasing research on green manufacturing and services, with a few notable exceptions, its predominant conceptual approaches to emerging modes of economic orientation continue to examine economic transitions somewhat unreflexively within the context of traditional growth paradigms. The aim of this article is to explore and critically examine neoliberal discourses on the green economy and smart growth by exploring contributions to debates on green economics proposed by ideas linked to post‐growth economies. Based on studies by scholars such as Tim Jackson and Serge Latouche, the article examines the contours of debates on post‐growth, décroissance (de‐growth) and prosperity without growth. We begin by examining growth debates and existing contributions by economic and other geographers to the exploration of alternatives to conventional growth‐centred economics. We then identify some emergent spatial facets of post‐growth transitions and utilize these to explore potential research topics and opportunities for empirical and conceptual contributions by economic geographers to academic and societal debates on economic transitions and post‐growth paradigms. Particular attention is paid to approaches currently discussed in economic geography, such as socio‐technical transition studies.

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The green economy and post‐growth regimes: opportunities and challenges for economic geography

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2014

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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“…In the "development" dimension one can observe ERD that prioritize economic development, recognizing that it is the dynamism of the production sectors that initially constitutes the driving forces responsible for creating employment, wealth, and consumption in a territory, providing incentives for investment and generating currency for the maintenance and protection of the environment [42,53]. Others, following the tendency of other societies, give more priority to the development of people (human-scale development [54]); in this sense, increased life expectancy, education, health, and equal opportunities are as important as economic development, if not more.…”

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Sustainability Assessment in Development Planning in Sub-National Territories: Regional Development Strategies in Chile

2018

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Abstract:In Chile, the increasing occurrence of socio-environmental conflicts demonstrates that Regional Development Strategies-Estrategia Regional de Desarrollo (ERD)-as the main development policy of subnational territories (Regions), must consider sustainability as a central objective. The Taxonomy of Sustainability constitutes an assessment method that allows us to determine the correlation between the definitions of these public policies and the strategies for transition to sustainable development. The ERD of the Antofagasta and Aysén regions are the ones presenting the highest Taxonomic Index; this indicates a higher strategic content for the promotion of sustainability. It is also noted that the political will that conditions the principles and values on which the ERD are based is strongly determined by investment projects and socio-environmental conflicts, which represent the tension between environmental protection and the capacity and interests of regional society in the development project.

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“…Degrowth and its related ideas have gained influence as a form of resisting that voraciousness (McKibben 2010) and even in bodies like the UN (see epigraph to Kosoy et al 2012). Observing how that influence works in practice is a key focus of this article and something which contributors to this special issue share (see Lockyer 2017;Verma 2017;and DeVore 2017 in this volume).…”

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The unit of resilience: unbeckoned degrowth and the politics of (post)development in Peru and the Maldives

Hirsch

2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article asks how people envision lives without economic growth in contexts where conventional development ceases to be feasible. It presents ethnographic research I conducted in Peru and in the Maldives, which policymakers see as two climate crisis frontiers. I argue for defining resilience as a grounded, necessarily local, actor's theory of permanence; it is a theory people from diverse social classes and institutions generate in situations of vulnerability and crisis. In the Andes' Colca Valley, which some residents predict has only several habitable decades left due to increasing water scarcity, sustainable development projects are attenuating their presence as their budgets shrink, while mining enterprises and their corporate social responsibility programs have emerged as development's new agenda setters. The Maldives is one of the world's lowest-lying nations, which rising seas could soon render uninhabitable. RésuméCet article interroge comment des personnes envisagent une vie sans croissance économique dans des contextes où le développement conventionnel cesse d'être faisable. Ceci présente des recherches ethnographiques menées au Pérou et aux Maldives, que les décideurs politiques considèrent comme deux frontières de crise climatique. Je soutiens qu'il faut définir la résilience comme une théorie qui est mise à la terre, nécessairement locale, et basé sur l'acteur; c'est une théorie de personnes qui viennent de diverses classes et institutions sociales et qui se génèrent en situation de vulnérabilité et de crise. Dans de la vallée du Colca aux Andes, où certains résidents présagent que celle-ci a seulement quelques décennies habitables à cause du manque d'eau, les projets de développement durable atténuent leur présence tandis que leurs budgets rétrécissent. De plus, les entreprises minières et leurs programmes de responsabilité sociale sont considérés comme des fixateurs de nouveaux programmes de développement. Les Maldives est une des nations ayant l'altitude plus basse au monde, qui à cause de la montée des mers pourraient bientôt rendre inhabitable. Entre 2008 et 2012, le président Mohamed Nasheed décréta la crise climatique une priorité politique en substituant le développement industriel avec une quête de courte durée qui prévoyait atteindre une empreinte de carbone neutre. En faisant l'examen de deux sites frontaliers, ceux-là permettent un contrepoint d'où je soutiens que la définition de l'unité de la résilience est un acte politique: forgeant cette 1 Dr. Eric Hirsch, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Email: eric.hirsch "at" mcgill.ca. I would like to acknowledge the staff of the Desco NGO in Lima, Arequipa, and Colca, Peru, the Andean Studies Program of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and the Bluepeace Maldives NGO. Profound thanks to Lisa Gezon, Susan Paulson, and the other helpful members of the "Culture, Power, Degrowth" group, who heard and read earlier iterations of this article. Resu...

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Pillars for a flourishing Earth: planetary boundaries, economic growth delusion and green economy

Cited by 56 publications

References 18 publications

The green economy and post‐growth regimes: opportunities and challenges for economic geography

The green economy and post‐growth regimes: opportunities and challenges for economic geography

Sustainability Assessment in Development Planning in Sub-National Territories: Regional Development Strategies in Chile

The unit of resilience: unbeckoned degrowth and the politics of (post)development in Peru and the Maldives

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