COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research

Filho, Walter Leal; Azul, Anabela Marisa; Wall, Tony; Vasconcelos, Claudio R. P.; Salvia, Amanda Lange; Paço, Arminda do; Shulla, Kalterina; Levesque, Vanessa R.; Doni, F; Álvarez-Castañón, Lorena del Carmen; Mac-Lean, Claudia; Ávila, Lucas Veiga; Damke, Luana Inês; Castro, Paula; Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda; Fritzen, Bárbara; Ferreira, Paula Varandas; Frankenberger, Fernanda

doi:10.1007/s11625-020-00866-y

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“…In recent months, there has been an increase in published material on the effects of COVID-19 on a diversity of sustainability issues. Characterized by an exceptional level of uncertainty and extensive debate, sustainability researchers have to adapt to new research routines described by access to knowledge through information technology (Leal et al, 2020). So far, none can accurately predict the long-lasting effects of the nature of COVID-19 related to humankind's future and much less to Agenda 2030 and SDG 12.…”

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Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly disrupted progress toward many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Accordingly, the UN has underscored the need to design short-term responses to halt and reverse the adverse effects of the current COVID-19 crisis. However, some researchers have scrutinized the feasibility and note the potential counterproductivity of particular SDGs in our post-pandemic world. This perspective paper holds a more hopeful outlook and contends that the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to prompt efforts to carry out the UN's 2030 Agenda. In this regard, this paper engages the theme of “sustainable consumption” in the context of COVD-19 by discussing two perspectives or bodies of work-supply chain sustainability and post-colonial theory. Supply chain sustainability is discussed as one such promising, though underutilized practice, that could potentially catalyze progress toward SDG 12. Likewise, post-colonial theory, a body of knowledge rarely drawn upon in sustainable consumption and SDG conversations, is presented to call attention to some of the gaps in the orthodoxy of sustainable consumption approaches, practices, and theoretical perspectives. This perspective paper's novelty lies in the fact that it calls attention to the promise of the SDGs and the limits of our current theoretical frameworks related to sustainable consumption. For these reasons, these bodies of work can provoke additional questions and avenues for future research.

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Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

2021

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“…The shift in mobility and working practices in times of COVID-19 provides an example. Digitalization has accelerated in several industries, and many people are now working remotely (Sarkis et al 2020 ), also in science (Leal Filho et al 2021 ). Using the example of one of the biggest European Political Science conferences, Jäckle ( 2021 ) estimates that organizing the conference online in 2020 has reduced the carbon footprint of participants by 99%, compared to conferences held in-person.…”

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Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability

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An optimistic narrative has gained momentum during the first year of the pandemic: the COVID-19 crisis may have opened a window of opportunity to “rebuild better”, to spur societal transitions towards environmental sustainability. In this comment, we review first evidence of individual and political changes made so far. Findings suggest that economies worldwide are not yet building back better. Against this background, we argue that a naïve opportunity narrative may even impair the progress of transitions towards environmental sustainability because it may render green recovery measures ineffective, costly, or infeasible. Based on these observations, we derive conditions for green recovery policies to succeed. They should consist of a policy mix combining well-targeted green subsidies with initiatives to price emissions and scrap environmentally harmful subsidies. Moreover, green recovery policies must be embedded into a narrative that avoids trading off environmental sustainability with other domains of sustainability—and rather highlights respective synergies that can be realized when recovering from the COVID-19 crisis.

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“…But attempts to investigate instability in FDI are few. Among partisans of sustainability as mainstream it is believed (Leal Filho et al, 2021) that sustainable development research suffers under global Covid-19 crisis. FDI expert stated, "Global FDI plummeted to historic lows in 2020 as Covid-19 forced investors to push the brakes on expansion plans" (Dettoni, 2021).…”

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Measuring Instability of Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Latvia

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2021

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Fluctuations of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows constitute an acute research problem globally and in Latvia studies. Already before COVID19, negative flows occurred. The research aim is to investigate stability in FDI in Latvia applying theory of dynamical system to big database of 129 countries of origin of FDI covering the whole period of regained statehood. The primary methods used are standard deviation and correlation. The main research result is disclosing growing instability of FDI flows in Latvia despite joining the EU and Eurozone. Novelty consists of research methodology justification, plotting analytical table, calculation of sigma and correlations for FDI flows for the periods before and after Latvia joined the EU, and drawing conclusions.

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COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research

Cited by 51 publications

References 48 publications

Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability

Measuring Instability of Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Latvia

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