Are We Consuming Too Much—for What?

Daly, Herman E.; Czech, Brian; Trauger, David L.; Rees, William E.; Grover, Mansi; Dobson, Tracy; Trombulak, Stephen C.

doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00770.x

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“…Daly-following Joseph Schumpeter-argues that a growth-oriented approach serves as an important part of a "pre-analytic vision" that guides academic and policy groups, omitting essential relationships and categories from evaluation [13,33,35,36]. This pre-analytic vision is at the core of neoclassical economic models, but also provides the underpinnings for a common conceptual framework of sustainability or sustainable development throughout contemporary environmental discourse, scholarship, analytical examinations, and policies.…”

Section: Neoclassical Economics Sustainable Development and The Prementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability and Environmental Sociology: Putting the Economy in its Place and Moving Toward an Integrative Socio-Ecology

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Abstract:The vague, yet undoubtedly desirable, notion of sustainability has been discussed and debated by many natural and social scientists. We argue that mainstream conceptions of sustainability, and the related concept of sustainable development, are mired in a "pre-analytic vision" that naturalizes capitalist social relations, closes off important questions regarding economic growth, and thus limits the potential for an integrative socio-ecological analysis. Theoretical and empirical research within environmental sociology provides key insights to overcome the aforementioned problems, whereby the social, historical, and environmental relationships associated with the tendencies and qualities of the dominant economic system are analyzed. We highlight how several environmental sociology perspectives-such as human ecology, the treadmill of production, and metabolic analysis-can serve as the basis for a more integrative socio-ecological conception and can help advance the field of sustainability science.

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Section: Neoclassical Economics Sustainable Development and The Prementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability and Environmental Sociology: Putting the Economy in its Place and Moving Toward an Integrative Socio-Ecology

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“…Daly et al, 2007;Kitzes et al, 2008;Randers, 2008;Beddoe et al, 2009;Costanza, 2009;Haberl et al, 2009;Hueting, 2009). Daly et al (2007) stress: 'When so many vital realities, including the capacity of the Earth to support life, must be classified as ''externalities'' in order to apply neoclassical theory, then we think it is time to restructure the theory in a way that includes the vital issues.' A very different approach, one which fully recognises the risks of adverse environmental change and resource depletion such as climate change and energy shortfalls, is needed.…”

Section: Implications For Energy Policy-makingmentioning

confidence: 98%

A human needs approach to reducing atmospheric carbon

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Energy Policy

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“…24 The analytical-theoretical work starts with Duesenberry (1949). Recent contributions are Arrow et al (2004), Hopkins and Kornienko (2004) and Daly et al (2007). 25 In biology the fact that only individuals with a high physical or mental quality can carry the costs of extravagance is denoted by the term ''handicap principle".…”

Section: A4 Empirical Analysis Of Individual Happiness and Social Wmentioning

confidence: 99%