Approaching sustainable development goals: Inspirations from the Arts and Crafts movement to reshape production and consumption patterns

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The Sustainable Development Report (SDR) provides comprehensive global rankings based on countries’ performance and efforts toward the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the spillover effects reflecting how one country’s actions influence others remain underexplored, especially regarding their interplay with SDGs performance. This paper delves into the cross‐border adverse impacts on the environment and society arising from these spillovers, examining their correlation with SDGs rankings within the context of the North‐South divide and foreign direct investment (FDI). The analysis reveals a pronounced association between higher SDGs scores and amplified negative spillover effects. While this trend is predominant among advanced Northern countries, certain developing Southern nations also exhibit similar tendencies, potentially obstructing the SDGs of more vulnerable states. This paper argues that many countries achieve their SDGs by exploiting the ecological and social resources of others, suggesting a deviation from genuine sustainability and the core ethos of the 2030 Agenda: “Leave No One Behind.” To provide a clearer perspective on countries’ developmental trajectories, this paper proposes conceptual metrics and utilizes data visualization to re‐assess sustainability progression over time. It also introduces four developmental tendencies: exploitative, degraded, waning, and sustainable development. The findings emphasize that countries aiming to transition from exploitative or degraded development to sustainability must address consumerism, prioritize SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and counteract the degradation of SDG 13 (Climate Action). Crucially, a competitive mindset and a lack of international collaboration will hinder SDGs, underscoring the pressing need for collective action on environmental and social justice and equity.

Section: Conceptual Metrics For Clarifying Countries' Developmental D...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Who wins and who loses in global SDGs rankings? Clarifying the influence of the North‐South divide and foreign direct investment on spillover effects

Chen

2023

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“…Finally, Štreimikienė and Kačerauskas (2020) study the economies of Baltic countries to analyze the correlations between creative industries and sustainable development. When these studies are considered as a whole, it can be concluded that a transdisciplinary synthesis of art and science has emerged, providing inspiration and innovative ideas for sustainable development (Chen, 2022). Supporting these efforts and the establishment of a holistic sustainability culture, a number of researchers point out the difficulties and challenges faced by artists, and stress the significance of artists' economic sustainability to ensure the continuity of artistic production.…”

Section: Sustainable Development Of Art Industrymentioning

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“…Some example topics include community art projects (Chatkaewnapanon & Kelly, 2019), participatory artistic events (Rutten et al, 2019), artist‐in‐residence programs (Pinto et al, 2020), artworks drawing attention to the socio‐environmental issues such as poverty (Rarick, 2000), pollution (Johnson & Fürst, 2022) and climate change (Capstick et al, 2018), artworks created using recycled and scrap materials or through environmentally sensitive processes (Lithgow & Wall, 2019), and green exhibitions, galleries or museums (Ernst et al, 2016). These creations and artistic practices are often called sustainable art (Cooke, 2015; Guy et al, 2015), and primarily aim to transform people's thinking and behaviors by raising their awareness about sustainability (Chen, 2022).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable development of art industry and a statistical analysis of the factors that influence the gallery prices of contemporary artworks

Turan

Tosun

2022

Although art industry has developed significantly, the factors influencing artwork prices and their specific effects are not fully known. With this research, to guide curators, gallery owners, collectors and art investors, as well as artists, first the factors that may influence artwork prices are determined. Then, using a data set from a contemporary art gallery in Istanbul, which of these factors are significant and in which ways they alter the prices are investigated. While previous studies are typically based on auction prices, promoting the economic sustainability of artists, this study employs gallery prices, and different from the existing efforts, it examines the joint impact of the artwork specific factors such as production technique and the number of editions, together with the artist specific factors including gender, education level and the field of study. Statistical findings suggest that there is no significant difference between the prices of artworks created by the artists who have a formal education in fine arts and those who do not. However, it is found that artists, particularly the female ones, can increase the prices of their artworks by having a graduate level education. Also, it is observed that increasing the number of editions negatively affects artwork prices, and the artworks created in print techniques have significantly lower prices than the artworks produced in other techniques. Though, it is detected that print artworks are less affected from the price reductions induced by the increase in the number of editions, compared to the artworks produced in other techniques.

“…"Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 (SDG 12.3) captures a commitment to halve food waste at the retail and consumer level and to reduce food loss across supply chains" (UNEP, 2021). Existing profit-oriented growth and consumption ethos have led to unsustainable conducts and lifestyles and barred our attainment of the sustainable development goals (Chen, 2022).Wastage of food not only results in lower availability for others but also raises price of necessities, causes irreparable damage to the ecosystem in many ways like eutrophication, acidification, and so forth, and finally, when it reaches landfills, it releases toxic gases. The profligacy in consumption enjoyed by the developed countries harms everyone around the world and drive nations to ecological bankruptcy (Jain & Jain, 2019).…”

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Environmental cost of food wastage: Integrated response through a mix of environmental policy instruments

Jain

Sarawgi

Jain

2023

Food, when wasted, reaches landfills and emits greenhouse gases. The impact of greenhouse gases (GHGs), in turn, is felt by even those who do not waste food in the place. Externalities thus created are known to distort market efficiency and the most widely discussed externality is climate change. This study takes the case of United States of America (USA) to ascertain the GHGs resulting due to food wastage. The difference between cost per capita due to emissions from animal‐based products and emissions from plant‐based products comes out to be $122. In the year 1997 total GHG emission for the entire population of the USA due to food wastage was 401.98 billion kgCO2eq, costing the country 45.42 billion US dollars. Two decades later, in 2017, the food waste costs went up by 6 billion US dollars amounting to 51.14 billion US dollars and 452.64 billion kgCO2eq of GHG emissions The novelty of this research lies in highlighting the carbon footprints of food wastage in terms of GHG's and monetizing these emissions. The study proposes an integrated response through a mix of environmental policy instruments of economic incentives, command and control and moral suasion.