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Climate change poses great challenges to modern societies, central amongst which is to decouple human need satisfaction from energy use. Energy system…
Abstract. We analyze the role of ethical values in the determination of the social cost of carbon, arguing that the familiar debate about discounting is to
For the world's 20 largest emitters, we use a simple trend/cycle decomposition to provide evidence of decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and …
This paper examines the role of the “Big Three” (i.e., BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors) on the reduction of corporate carbon emissions aro
By Jose Pineda; Abstract: This paper proposes sustainability - adjusted human development index (SHDI) in which countries’ achievements in human
Ester Boserup: An interdisciplinary visionary relevant for sustainability
This paper develops a theory where access to food and fuel energy is critical to the location, number and size of human settlements. By combining our …
Hsiang, S. M., and Jina, A. 2014. “The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones.” Working Paper 20352, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
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Wiedenhofer, D., and Fischer-Kowalski, M. 2015. “Achieving Absolute Decoupling? Comparing Biophysical Scenarios and Macro‐Economic Modelling Results.” Working Paper 86, WWWforEurope, Vienna.
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Linda Derksen, John Gartrell, The Social Context of Recycling, American Sociological Review, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Jun., 1993), pp. 434-442
Understanding the causes of economic inequality is critical for achieving equitable economic development. To investigate whether global warming has affected the recent evolution of inequality, we c...
Ellis, E. C. 2018b. “Science Alone Won’t Save the Earth. People Have to Do That.” New York Times, 11 August.
Many teams have developed a wide range of numerical or categorical indicators of progress in the implementation of the SDG targets. But these indicators cannot identify why target goals have not been accomplished, whether or how they do or do not do justice to the social and cultural context in which they are applied, and how newly emerging social dynamics affect indicators. Nor do they provide means for resolving conflicting values and making balanced trade-offs. Our starting point in examining why we have not been successful in progressing towards sustainability is that the sustainability conundrum is primarily a societal, rather than an environmental problem. Our present emphasis is to maintain our way of life while minimizing its impact, hoping that such a minimization strategy would make the world more sustainable. Reducing for example the extent of pollution but keeping the same industries alive would not be sufficient for a transformation towards sustainability. Instead we should ask “How did we come to this point and what practices, in our societies and in our science, need to change to make progress towards sustainability?” To answer these questions, one needs to go much further back than usual in the history of western societies to identify the societal, scientific, technological and environmental co-evolutionary dynamics that have brought us to the current conundrum. And the fact that most societal challenges are of the “wicked” kind, as well as the need to decide among many societal options and many future pathways that may lead to positive results require that we seriously engage in using “Complex Systems” approaches. It is up to our scientific community to identify these pathways, and we need to move fast!
Research suggests that the scale of human population and the current pace of its growth contribute substantially to the loss of biological diversity. Although technological change and unequal consu...
