Valuing socio‐diversity

O’Hara, Sabine

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“…The selected methods were ranked following the sustainability weak or strong categories (see Table 1) that have been broadly implemented among consulted literature [8,34,38,40]. Weak sustainability methods take into account terms and values that follow a standardized view of sustainability due to its translation into monetary terms [4,40,41].…”

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“…Weak sustainability methods take into account terms and values that follow a standardized view of sustainability due to its translation into monetary terms [4,40,41]. Strong sustainability methods are those who adopt a broader scope that approaches to an interdisciplinary and systemic view of nature, society and also the economy [8,34,38,39]. Table 1 classifies the four selected methods and main consulted authors, the kind of approach or application of the assessment, followed by the assessed grade of contribution to the consolidation of sustainability and the input for decision making processes that the instrument provides.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sustainability in practice: integrated assessment to support policy and decision-making processes

Calleros-Islas¹,

Welsh-Rodriguez²

2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Sustainability has been recognized, when facing multifaceted decision and policy making processes, as a discipline that broadens the scope under which issues are taken into account. This is considered important given the complex and interrelated challenges faced by societies nowadays. However, it has been found in literature that the sustainable approach still has several obstacles to tackle, from the weakening of its discourse to the lack of real influence and low consensus on its meaning and practice. To reinforce the operational side of sustainability, several methodologies have been designed and implemented over the years with two main shortcomings: an inability to assess sustainability issues as a whole and more specifically, a lack of practical steps that can be included on a day-today basis. Integrated assessment emerges as a possible way to summarize the complexity of studying issues from a broader perspective but it is applied in different ways with diverse outcomes that require careful examination. These outcomes are compared by analyzing four integrated assessment tools: life cycle assessment, cost-benefit analysis, stakeholder analysis and multiple scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism. The aim is to observe and determine the degree to which they contribute to the consolidation of the sustainable approach and how they support decision-making processes. It is intended that this exercise help build a diverse yet deep common base for further conversation that will facilitate the process of searching and selecting alternatives to drive socio-ecological systems towards a more sustainable future.

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Section: Discussion Of the Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability in practice: integrated assessment to support policy and decision-making processes

Calleros-Islas¹,

Welsh-Rodriguez²

2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…Yet diversity loss is not limited to biological systems. Cultural diversity, the diversity of socioeconomic systems, and the diversity of Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 04:52 03 January 2015 SUSTAINABILITY SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS economic theories and assessment methods are lost as well (O'Hara 1994a). One of the driving forces of diversity loss is economics itself.…”

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Sustainability: Social and Ecological Dimensions

O’Hara

1995

Review of Social Economy

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The recent focus on sustainability as guiding principle for economic activity has generated many (often conflicting) definitions of sustainable economic development. Yet while the terminology may be new, the discussion is not. It parallels the discussion about biases of economic valuation concepts that have led to the neglect of the domestic and subsistence contributions relegated to the "informal" or household sector. This paper argues that the narrow definition of economic theory, methodology, and valuation concepts has led to the detrimental neglect of sustaining functions without which economic activity is impaired. To move toward sustainability it is imperative to regain a broader understanding of economics. Three principles are identified as essential for this conceptual expansion of economics. They are: concreteness rather than abstraction, connectedness rather than isolation, and diversity rather than homogeneity. All three are informed by feminist theory. Thus it is argued that the voices of women who have gone largely unheard in economics are essential to reconceptualizing economics as sustainable.

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“…In current economic literature, concepts consistently revolve around individuals and any behavior that diverts from the self-centered, utility maximizing actions does not only reflect irrationality in theory but is increasingly hard to find in practice, too [31]. In economic reasoning, individuals decide in a strictly rational manner and emotional aspects or the well-being of others do not directly play a role (except through influencing subjective preference ranking).…”

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Backcasting for Sustainable Employment: A Hungarian Experience

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Sustainability and employment are terms seldom used together. Especially when defining sustainability in the stricter sense of the word, delineating a world where strong sustainability is the norm, it is problematic to deduct which elements may compose sustainable employment. In the relevant discourse, two distinct directions can be identified. Ecological modernization promises -quick fixes‖ to employment problems while reducing environmentally harmful economic activities without initiating major changes either in our ways of thinking or in our way of living. At the same time, the radical change paradigm disposes of the concepts of the free market society and believes that new -great transformations‖ are unavoidable, whereby values must change just as much as institutions. Yet, how far have these normative theoretical approaches penetrated our everyday thinking? The paper builds upon the experience of a backcasting project on sustainable employment conducted in Hungary in 2012 and early 2013 and suggests that when people are given the chance to leave the path dependencies of today behind and imagine a sustainable future, their normative visions provide us with invaluable insight as to what may constitute sustainable employment. It also contributes towards our understanding of which policy tools lead us towards a more sustainable world of work in particular and a more sustainable society in general.

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Valuing socio‐diversity

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Sustainability in practice: integrated assessment to support policy and decision-making processes

Sustainability in practice: integrated assessment to support policy and decision-making processes

Sustainability: Social and Ecological Dimensions

Backcasting for Sustainable Employment: A Hungarian Experience

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