Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature

The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models were develop...

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Auteurs principaux: Costanza, Robert, Alperovitz, Gar, Daly, Herman, Farley, Joshua, Franco, Carol, Jackson, Tim, Kubiszewski, Ida, Schor, Juliet, Victor, Peter
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author Costanza, Robert
Alperovitz, Gar
Daly, Herman
Farley, Joshua
Franco, Carol
Jackson, Tim
Kubiszewski, Ida
Schor, Juliet
Victor, Peter
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Costanza, Robert
Daly, Herman
Farley, Joshua
Franco, Carol
Jackson, Tim
Kubiszewski, Ida
Schor, Juliet
Victor, Peter
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Alperovitz, Gar
Daly, Herman
Farley, Joshua
Franco, Carol
Jackson, Tim
Kubiszewski, Ida
Schor, Juliet
Victor, Peter
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description The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed in an empty world. If we are to create sustainable prosperity, if we seek “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities,” we are going to need a new vision of the economy and its relationship to the rest of the world that is better adapted to the new conditions we face. We are going to need an economics that respects planetary boundaries, that recognizes the dependence of human well-being on social relations and fairness, and that recognizes that the ultimate goal is real, sustainable human well-being, not merely growth of material consumption. This new economics recognizes that the economy is embedded in a society and culture that are themselves embedded in an ecological life-support system, and that the economy cannot grow forever on this finite planet. In this report, we discuss the need to focus more directly on the goal of sustainable human well-being rather than merely GDP growth. This includes protecting and restoring nature, achieving social and intergenerational fairness (including poverty alleviation), stabilizing population, and recognizing the significant nonmarket contributions to human well-being from natural and social capital. To do this, we need to develop better measures of progress that go well beyond GDP and begin to measure human well-being and its sustainability more directly.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-351402025-01-26T05:12:09Z Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature Costanza, Robert Alperovitz, Gar Daly, Herman Farley, Joshua Franco, Carol Jackson, Tim Kubiszewski, Ida Schor, Juliet Victor, Peter environmental policy economic development--environmental aspects Ecosystem Ecosystem services Gross domestic product Natural capital Quality of life Social capital Well-being thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TH Energy technology and engineering::THV Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed in an empty world. If we are to create sustainable prosperity, if we seek “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities,” we are going to need a new vision of the economy and its relationship to the rest of the world that is better adapted to the new conditions we face. We are going to need an economics that respects planetary boundaries, that recognizes the dependence of human well-being on social relations and fairness, and that recognizes that the ultimate goal is real, sustainable human well-being, not merely growth of material consumption. This new economics recognizes that the economy is embedded in a society and culture that are themselves embedded in an ecological life-support system, and that the economy cannot grow forever on this finite planet. In this report, we discuss the need to focus more directly on the goal of sustainable human well-being rather than merely GDP growth. This includes protecting and restoring nature, achieving social and intergenerational fairness (including poverty alleviation), stabilizing population, and recognizing the significant nonmarket contributions to human well-being from natural and social capital. To do this, we need to develop better measures of progress that go well beyond GDP and begin to measure human well-being and its sustainability more directly. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2013-12-18 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:49:23Z 2013 book 462196 OCN: 1030815851 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33515 9781921862052 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35140 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33515/1/462196.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33515/1/462196.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33515/1/462196.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33515/1/462196.pdf ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_462196 10.26530/OAPEN_462196 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 9781921862052 Canberra open access
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economic development--environmental aspects
Ecosystem
Ecosystem services
Gross domestic product
Natural capital
Quality of life
Social capital
Well-being
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Costanza, Robert
Alperovitz, Gar
Daly, Herman
Farley, Joshua
Franco, Carol
Jackson, Tim
Kubiszewski, Ida
Schor, Juliet
Victor, Peter
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
title Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
title_full Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
title_fullStr Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
title_full_unstemmed Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
title_short Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
title_sort building a sustainable and desirable economy in society in nature
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economic development--environmental aspects
Ecosystem
Ecosystem services
Gross domestic product
Natural capital
Quality of life
Social capital
Well-being
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economic development--environmental aspects
Ecosystem
Ecosystem services
Gross domestic product
Natural capital
Quality of life
Social capital
Well-being
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TH Energy technology and engineering::THV Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology
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