Green growth or degrowth? Assessing the normative justifications for environmental sustainability and economic growth through critical social theory

Sandberg, Maria; Klockars, Kristian; Wilén, Kristoffer

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.175

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“…Sugden integrated these two views, and defined IG as the state in which economic development requires the participation of all the people, who then share its benefits [8]. Overall, IG adheres to the principles of common development of economic growth, fairness and justice, equal opportunities and livelihood, where the production process and results are shared by all the people [26].…”

Section: Definition Of Inclusive Green Growth (Igg)mentioning

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Measurement and Convergence Analysis of Inclusive Green Growth in the Yangtze River Economic Belt Cities

2020

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The inclusive green growth (IGG) model is an important tool to promote the construction of an urban ecological civilization and promote sustainable and green development, but China's related research is still in its infancy. Targeting the problem of cross-regional research on technology set differences, this study proposes a method of combining the super-efficiency slack-based measure model and the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger index to measure the IGG of 108 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB), and analyzes their convergence. Earlier research showed that, under the metafrontier, the upstream cities in the YREB have the highest level of technological efficiency, followed by the downstream and the midstream cities, while the midstream cities of the group frontier have the highest technological efficiency. The main source of China's IGG is technological progress. The YREB has obvious σ-convergence characteristics overall and in the downstream cities, and absolute β-convergence characteristics both overall and in three basins. This research has significance as a reference for the gradual improvement of the IGG of cities in the YREB, and ultimately their overall coordinated development.

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Section: Definition Of Inclusive Green Growth (Igg)mentioning

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Measurement and Convergence Analysis of Inclusive Green Growth in the Yangtze River Economic Belt Cities

2020

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“…(3) The most sustainable scenario is, however, to decrease or even reverse global mobility rates of humans and other carriers and vectors, especially if it is part and parcel of a much larger movement towards global sustainability by reducing humanity's environmental footprint and replacing unsustainable economic growth with sustainable economic degrowth (Schneider et al, 2010;Daly and Farley, 2011;Alexander, 2012;Czech, 2013;Galaz, 2014;Cosme et al, 2017;Weiss and Cattaneo, 2017;Chiengkul, 2018;Sandberg et al, 2019;Schmid, 2019). Such a general, comprehensive and global slowdown of mobility of both uninfected and infected people and vectors would be opposed for many reasons and by many interest groups, mainly based on economic arguments based around the need for continuous economic growth which has so far almost always been positively linked with increased mobility (e.g., Arvin et al, 2015;Hakim and Merkert, 2016;UNWTO, 2017;Saidi et al, 2018;Nasreen et al, 2020).…”

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The accelerated infectious disease risk in the Anthropocene: more outbreaks and wider global spread

Morand

Walther

2020

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The greatly accelerated economic growth during the Anthropocene has resulted in astonishing improvements in many aspects of human well-being, but has also caused the acceleration of risks, such as the interlinked biodiversity and climate crisis. Here, we report on another risk: the accelerated infectious disease risk associated with the number and geographic spread of human infectious disease outbreaks. Using the most complete, reliable, and up-to-date database on human infectious disease outbreaks (GIDEON), we show that the number of disease outbreaks, the number of diseases involved in these outbreaks, and the number of countries affected have increased during the entire Anthropocene. Furthermore, the spatial distribution of these outbreaks is becoming more globalized in the sense that the overall modularity of the disease networks across the globe has decreased, meaning disease outbreaks have become increasingly pandemic in their nature. This decrease in modularity is correlated with the increase in air traffic. We finally show that those countries and regions which are most central within these disease networks tend to be countries with higher GDPs. Therefore, one cost of increased global mobility and greater economic growth is the increased risk of disease outbreaks and their faster and wider spread. We briefly discuss three different scenarios which decision-makers might follow in light of our results.

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“…Those subscribing to the degrowth agenda argue that, by situating growth in a position central to socio-economic policies, these very policies will result in economic decline due to the finite nature of the Earth (Weiss and Cattaneo 2017). As Sandberg et al (2019) discuss in relation to green growth, the blue economy is unlikely to slow or reverse environmental degradation.…”

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Lessons for blue degrowth from Namibia’s emerging blue economy

Carver

2019

Sustain Sci

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Globally there has been recognition that there is little consensus attributed to the definition of the blue economy. However, despite this acknowledgement, the blue economy is championed for its development potential by the African Union and subsequently, several African states. Having formalised the agenda in its fifth National Development Plan Namibia is working to implement a governance and management framework to "sustainably maximise benefits from marine resources" by 2020 (Republic of Namibia in Namibia's 5th National Development Plan (NDP5) 2017). Concurrently, new entrants, such as marine mineral mining projects, have emerged in recognition of the potential offered within the state's Exclusive Economic Zone. This article argues that the uptake of the blue economy is shaped by multiple, and often conflicting, interests. The emergence of the agenda is not apolitical, nor has it been established in isolation from exogenous actors and interests. Subsequently, this article suggests that the critique of the emerging blue economy should be applied to discussions of a blue degrowth movement, to avoid transposing a new agenda over another. As demonstrated with reference to Namibia, contextual and historical issues need to be recognised by degrowth discussions, and their inherent and continued structural effects analysed. This is of particular importance when considering whose voices are represented or excluded by such agendas, complicated by the (geo)physical characteristics of the marine sphere.

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Green growth or degrowth? Assessing the normative justifications for environmental sustainability and economic growth through critical social theory

Cited by 169 publications

References 37 publications

Measurement and Convergence Analysis of Inclusive Green Growth in the Yangtze River Economic Belt Cities

Measurement and Convergence Analysis of Inclusive Green Growth in the Yangtze River Economic Belt Cities

The accelerated infectious disease risk in the Anthropocene: more outbreaks and wider global spread

Lessons for blue degrowth from Namibia’s emerging blue economy

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