Weak sustainability and viable technologies

Gowdy, John M.; O’Hara, Sabine

doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(97)00093-1

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“…But, the conventional saving rate which solely depends on accumulation of the physical capital lacks many dimensions on which the well-being of people is assumed to rest, i.e. natural resources, human capital and ANS is the fruit of the notion called as "weak-sustainability" (Gowdy and O'Hara 1997) and it is based on the idea of substitutability of different factors forming the fundamental basis of human existence (Gnegne, 2009(Gnegne, , p.1129. As a notion it is controversial however, because of the issue of irreversibility and imperfect substitution among physical, human and natural capital (Bridger and Luloff, 1999;Ekins et al, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Economic growth and its impact on environment: A panel data analysis

Aşıcı

2013

Ecological Indicators

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This paper aims to explore the relationship between the economic growth and the pressure on nature from the environmental sustainability perspective. We measure pressure on nature as the sum of energy, mineral, net forest depletions and carbon dioxide damage, all measured in US dollars. The data is taken from the Adjusted Net Savings data of World Bank. Our panel consists of 213 countries and spans the period between 1970 and 2008. To investigate the causal effect of economic growth on nature we employ two strategies; fixed-effects and fixedeffects instrumental-variables (IV) regressions. Cross-country analysis reveals that there is a positive relationship between income and pressure on nature. However, the relationship is not linear across countries; the effect is much stronger in middle-income countries than in low and high-income countries. Our results are robust to the inclusion of various covariates and moreover they do not support the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis which foresees a reduction in environmental degradation once a certain level of development is reached.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Economic growth and its impact on environment: A panel data analysis

Aşıcı

2013

Ecological Indicators

106

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“…Proponents of weak sustainability advance the argument that natural capital is either abundant or substitutable, both as an input into the production of consumption goods and as a provider of direct utility (Neumayer, 2003). This feature makes the weak sustainability concept limited in the context of market exchange at a particular point in time (Gowdy & O'Hara, 1997); hence it is an -econocentric‖ concept.…”

Section: Weak Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Rainforest Alliance Certification of Kenyan tea farms: a contribution to sustainability or tokenism?

Ochieng

Hughey

Bigsby

2013

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Weak sustainability assumes the idea that asset depletion does not necessarily represent a decline in consumption possibilities as long as other forms of capital increase and replace the diminished asset (Gowdy & O'Hara 1997;Neumayer 1999). According to this approach, the strong comparability is the possibility of measuring all natural and manufactured factors using the same quantitative scale (Martinez Alier et al 1998).…”

Section: Weak Sustainability: Efficient Alternatives By Means Of Absomentioning

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Hybrid Bottom Line: another perspective on the sustainability of organizations

Silvestre

Antunes

Filho

2014

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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In recent years, there has been a growing concern and an increasing number of proactive initiatives from various stakeholders on issues related to the environment, social matters, and economic aspects and this has been the main driving force toward sustainability. However, most players that are deeply involved with environmental and social agendas indicate that these actions have been more of a temporary palliative for the current unsustainability problems than real structural solutions, especially in what concerns the relationship between short-term actions and long-term structural planning. Even though the general literature on sustainability is comprehensive, there is a paucity of papers which look at it at the organizational level, and under a cross-sectoral perspective. This paper is an attempt to address this gap. It presents the concept of 'Hybrid Bottom Line' as a new perspective in understanding and sustainability at the organizational level.

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Weak sustainability and viable technologies

Cited by 69 publications

References 17 publications

Economic growth and its impact on environment: A panel data analysis

Economic growth and its impact on environment: A panel data analysis

Rainforest Alliance Certification of Kenyan tea farms: a contribution to sustainability or tokenism?

Hybrid Bottom Line: another perspective on the sustainability of organizations

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