The Economics of Arrival

Trebeck, Katherine; Williams, Jeremy B.

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“…There is a rapidly growing consensus that it is time to shift the world's focus away from maximizing material production to assuring human well-being in a flourishing environment (including, e.g. Jackson, 2011; Maxton and Randers, 2016; O'Neill et al, 2018; Raworth, 2017; Stoknes, 2021; Trebeck and Williams, 2019; Victor, 2019). In the context of Earth3, this has been framed as achieving the SDGs within planetary boundaries.…”

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Human well-being in the Anthropocene: limits to growth

et al. 2021

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Non-technical summary Transformation of the world towards sustainability in line with the 2030 Agenda requires progress on multiple dimensions of human well-being. We track development of relevant indicators for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1–7 against gross domestic product (GDP) per person in seven world regions and the world as a whole. Across the regions, we find uniform development patterns where SDGs 1–7 – and therefore main human needs – are achieved at around US$15,000 measured in 2011 US$ purchasing power parity (PPP). Technical summary How does GDP per person relate to the achievement of well-being as targeted by the 2030 Agenda? The 2030 Agenda includes global ambitions to meet human needs and aspirations. However, these need to be met within planetary boundaries. In nascent world-earth modelling, human well-being as well as global environmental impacts are linked through economic production, which is tracked by GDP. We examined historic developments on 5-year intervals, 1980–2015, between average income and the advancement on indicators of SDGs 1–7. This was done for both seven world regions and the world as a whole. We find uniform patterns of saturation for all regions above an income threshold somewhere around US$15,000 measured in 2011 US$ PPP. At this level, main human needs and capabilities are met. The level is also consistent with studies of life satisfaction and the Easterlin paradox. We observe stark differences with respect to scale: the patterns of the world as an aggregated whole develop differently from all its seven regions, with implications for world-earth model construction – and sustainability transformations. Social media summary Reaching human well-being #SDGs takes GDP levels of $15k. This may help shape transformation to a world that respects #PlanetaryBoundaries.

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Human well-being in the Anthropocene: limits to growth

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“…A recent report by the OECD [ 65 ] argues that policies in the area of, e.g., transport, food, and energy should be refocused through a well-being (or triple-win) lens. The governments of Scotland and New Zealand are applying “Economies of Well Being”, and they are also being promoted by the Wellbeing Economy Alliance [ 66 ]. The Lancet publication on food and consumption, in the series focusing on the environmental crisis and its impacts on health, advocated for more “triple-duty” actions [ 67 ].…”

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Encouraging and Enabling Lifestyles and Behaviours to Simultaneously Promote Environmental Sustainability, Health and Equity: Key Policy Messages from INHERIT

Godfrey

Romeo-Velilla

Bell³

et al. 2020

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Human consumption and activity are damaging the global ecosystem and the resources on which we rely for health, well-being and survival. The COVID-19 crisis is yet another manifestation of the urgent need to transition to more sustainable societies, further exposing the weaknesses in health systems and the injustice in our societies. It also underlines that many of the factors leading to environmental degradation, ill health and social and health inequities are interlinked. The current situation provides an unprecedented opportunity to invest in initiatives that address these common factors and encourage people to live more healthily and sustainably. Such initiatives can generate the positive feedback loops needed to change the systems and structures that shape our lives. INHERIT (January 2016–December 2019), an ambitious, multisectoral and transnational research project that involved 18 organisations across Europe, funded by the European Commission, explored such solutions. It identified, defined and analysed promising inter-sectoral policies, practices and approaches to simultaneously promote environmental sustainability, protect and promote health and contribute to health equity (the INHERIT “triple-win”) and that can encourage and enable people to live, move and consume more healthfully and sustainably. It also explored the facilitators and barriers to working across sectors and in public private cooperation. The insights were brought together in guidelines setting out how policy makers can help instigate and support local “triple-win” initiatives that influence behaviours as an approach to contributing to the change that is so urgently needed to stem environmental degradation and the interlinked threats to health and wellbeing. This article sets out this guidance, providing timely insights on how to “build back better” in the post pandemic era.

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“…Well-being economies is ‘a broad term designed to be inclusive of the diverse movement of ideas and actions striving towards this shared vision: an economy that delivers social justice on a healthy planet’ (https://wellbeingeconomy.org/about), and which combines a concern for reducing economic inequalities with ecological sustainability. Many advocates of this approach argue that deprioritising the pursuit of economic growth allows for a redesign and reprioritisation of economies towards the achievement of social and ecological outcomes 62…”

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Glossary: economics and health

McCartney

McMaster

Shipton

et al. 2022

J Epidemiol Community Health

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As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasing focus on how the economy is rebuilt and the impact this will have on population health. Many of the economic policy proposals being discussed have their own vocabulary, which is not always understood in the same way within or between disciplines. This glossary seeks to provide a common language and concise summary of the key economic terminology relevant for policymakers and public health at this time.

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The Economics of Arrival

Cited by 36 publications

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Human well-being in the Anthropocene: limits to growth

Human well-being in the Anthropocene: limits to growth

Encouraging and Enabling Lifestyles and Behaviours to Simultaneously Promote Environmental Sustainability, Health and Equity: Key Policy Messages from INHERIT

Glossary: economics and health

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