The art of long-term thinking: A bridge between sustainability science and politics

Klauer, Bernd; Manstetten, Reiner; Petersen, Thomas Søbirk; Schiller, Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.04.018

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“…However, it can be argued on the level of applicability and plausibility, whether or not such a methodology is appropriate. They can be seen as a useful heuristics (sensu [26]) that is able to support the competent authorities when making their value judgments on disproportionality. On this level, our comparative test finds both methods to be appropriate.…”

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Is the Achievement of “Good Status” for German Surface Waters Disproportionately Expensive?—Comparing Two Approaches to Assess Disproportionately High Costs in the Context of the European Water Framework Directive

Klauer

Schiller

Sigel

2017

Water

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Currently only 8.2% of German surface water bodies have reached the goal of the European Water Framework Directive to bring all water into a "good status". For all water bodies that presumably will not achieve the objective by 2027, the member states have to justify an exemption by 2021, for example, by arguing that the costs of achieving "good status" would be "disproportionately high". In this paper, two approaches for assessing cost-disproportionality of surface water bodies are empirically tested and compared on a set of real-world data from a German federal state. In the first approach, called average cost approach, costs are considered as being disproportionately high if they are significantly higher than what would be a "relatively normal effort". The core idea of the second, the benchmark approach, is to take the past public expenditures on water management as a basis for comparison. Both approaches include generated utility for determination of a water-body-specific disproportionality threshold. While the benchmarking approach needs less data, the empirical tests indicate that both approaches yield comparable results and are suitable to support authorities in the decision as to which water bodies are to be considered disproportionately expensive such that exemptions are justified.

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“…The notion of disproportionality intrinsically includes value judgments (Klauer et al [4] with reference to [26,27]). Hence, it is not possible to determine objectively and a priori which cost level is proportionate or disproportionate.…”

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Is the Achievement of “Good Status” for German Surface Waters Disproportionately Expensive?—Comparing Two Approaches to Assess Disproportionately High Costs in the Context of the European Water Framework Directive

Klauer

Schiller

Sigel

2017

Water

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“…Many existing institutions may work, in fact, as barriers and obstacles to sustainable development since they support a growthoriented system of production and consumption that depletes natural resources on a global scale. The term -sustainable development‖ is about reforming institutions toward sustainability (A comprehensive analysis of institutions in their relationship to sustainability is given in Klauer et al [7]. It is argued by Klauer et al [7] that policies of sustainability require a prudent reformist agenda of how to transform institutions democratically.…”

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“…The term -sustainable development‖ is about reforming institutions toward sustainability (A comprehensive analysis of institutions in their relationship to sustainability is given in Klauer et al [7]. It is argued by Klauer et al [7] that policies of sustainability require a prudent reformist agenda of how to transform institutions democratically. A more radical alternative to this reformist approach to institutions is to be found in the agenda of -non-reformist reforms‖ as to be found in the degrowth movement [8]).…”

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Institutionalizing Strong Sustainability: A Rawlsian Perspective

Ott

2014

Sustainability

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Abstract:The article aims to provide some ethical orientation on how sustainability might be actualized by institutions. Since institutionalization is about rules and organization, it presupposes ideas and concepts by which institutions can be substantiated. After outlining terminology, the article deals with underlying ethical and conceptual problems which are highly relevant for any suggestions concerning institutionalization. These problems are: (a) the ethical scope of the sustainability perspective (natural capital, poverty, sentient animals), (b) the theory of justice on which ideas about sustainability are built (capability approach, Rawlsianism), and (c) the favored concept of sustainability (weak, intermediate, and strong sustainability). These problems are analyzed in turn. As a result, a Rawlsian concept of rule-based strong sustainability is proposed. The specific problems of institutionalization are addressed by applying Rawls's concept of branches. The article concludes with arguments in favor of three transnational duties which hold for states that have adopted Rawlsian strong sustainability.

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“…The growing counter voice has long been from academia and, more recently, from supranational entities. Depending on the discourse foregrounded, the descriptive term for the shift required could be "short-termism to long-termism" (Swilling, 2013;Klauer et al, 2013); "anthropocentric to biocentric" (Robinson, 2004;Alexander, 2012); "overconsumption to sufficiency" (Swilling & Annecke, 2012;Alexander, 2012); "wealth to well-being" (Easterlin, 1974(Easterlin, , 2016Layard, 2005;Fioramonti, 2010); "Newtonian science to heuristic science" (Klauer et al, 2013); or "development to sustainability" (Robinson, 2004). If we agree with Kuhn's emphasis on the need for a promising alternative paradigm to discredit the prevailing paradigm, then it is clear that the multidimensional nature of the counter-views is an inherent stalling factor, particularly in the face of the monolithic growth paradigm.…”

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Economic growth and progress: a paradigmatic conflation

Morrison¹

2018

AJOBE

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This article uses a paradigmatic lens to conceptually explore the global sustainability crisis. To anchor what would otherwise be an abstract thought experiment, the discussion focuses on GDP, economic growth and progress measurement. By reviewing the extensive debate around GDP through a paradigmatic lens, the article explores why the prevailing growth-centric paradigm is "in crisis". More importantly, it suggests that the crisis is unlikely be resolved by human agency, unless the requisite convincing forces for a paradigm shift are present. Or, failing this, that aggravating sociological and/or ecological conditions over time could impel the shift to some new, hitherto-unimagined paradigm.

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The art of long-term thinking: A bridge between sustainability science and politics

Cited by 33 publications

References 19 publications

Is the Achievement of “Good Status” for German Surface Waters Disproportionately Expensive?—Comparing Two Approaches to Assess Disproportionately High Costs in the Context of the European Water Framework Directive

Is the Achievement of “Good Status” for German Surface Waters Disproportionately Expensive?—Comparing Two Approaches to Assess Disproportionately High Costs in the Context of the European Water Framework Directive

Institutionalizing Strong Sustainability: A Rawlsian Perspective

Economic growth and progress: a paradigmatic conflation

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