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- Nightingale, A. J., et al.
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Background and history of sustainability
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Ingår i: Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World. Andrea J. Nightingale (red.). - New York : Routledge. - 9781317501831 ; , s. 13-34
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter explores how the idea of sustainability has changed over time and within different regions. The expansion of the Industrial Revolution brought environmental concerns firmly onto the political agenda and established many of the environmental—social—economic relations that continue to shape sustainability challenges. The Industrial Revolution along with colonialism brought about widespread changes in economies and environments upon which the emerging global economy depended. Steady state is used in the environmental field to indicate an ecosystem, organism, or place that is in balance. While Thomas R. Malthus maintained that population growth would eventually lead to a crisis of resources, he simultaneously believed that technological progress could postpone the inevitable need to reduce demands on resource. Neo-Malthusianism refers to a line of thought advocating population control to ensure resource availability for current and future populations. Ideas of limits to economic growth, the need for moderating human exploitation of resources, and the desirability of steady states thus have a long history. © 2019 Taylor & Francis.
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- Nightingale, A. J., et al.
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Enacting sustainability
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Ingår i: Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World. Andrea J. Nightingale (red.). - New York : Routledge. - 9781317501831 ; , s. 56-81
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter looks at the ways that narratives of sustainability have been put into practice. It deals with the idea of measuring sustainability, and examines how approaches based in the biophysical sciences may differ from those in the social sciences. Measuring sustainability and sustainable development poses a number of problems, not least of which are availability of data. Many indicators put ecology at the core of sustainability, assuming that ecological sustainability is a prerequisite for social and economic sustainability. An ecological footprint represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area necessary to supply the resources and energy a given human population consumes and needs to dispose of its waste. Ecological science has been primarily underpinned by the idea of stability at least since Frederic Clements’ seminal text on climax vegetation in 1936. The idea of planetary boundaries has captured the imagination of sustainability communities and has helped to increase awareness of sustainability issues. © 2019 Taylor & Francis.
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- Nightingale, A. J., et al.
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Narratives of sustainability key concepts and issues
- 2019
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Ingår i: Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World. Andrea J. Nightingale (red.). - New York : Routledge. - 9781317501831 ; , s. 35-55
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter reviews some of the key concepts and issues in sustainability debates in order to better understand how sustainability can be invoked for a wide range of purposes. By scrutinizing the narratives of environment and society that underpin sustainability, a wide range of conflicting conceptualizations becomes evident. The chapter deals with a discussion about the contrasting conceptualizations that underpin different narratives of sustainability. Social movements seeking to articulate competing visions of sustainability often draw upon the historically rooted value systems and ways of conceptualizing socionatures to move beyond anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. Linking society and environment ontologically through a socionatures conceptualization recognizes that entities like forests, grasslands, human bodies, even the atmosphere, are socio-natural entities. Most sustainability narratives are predicated upon some separation of society from environment. Two other narratives that are particularly important for understanding sustainability are anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. Anthropocentrism advocates often promote technical and managerial approaches to solve environmental crises. © 2019 Taylor & Francis.
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