Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies

Motesharrei, Safa; Rivas, Jorge; Kalnay, Eugenia

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.014

Cited by 320 publications

(214 citation statements)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

181

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The salt in the wound for those contesting BDO from such perspectives is that this emergent policy seems likely to further enrich the corporate extractive and development interests whose economically productive activities are arguably at the heart of the 'environmental debt' BDO purports to address (cf. Motesharrei et al 2014, Ostry et al 2014). Development-related harm thus both boosts the value of and demand for conservation, through enhancing biodiversity scarcity (cf.…”

Section: Value Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nets and frames, losses and gains: Value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England

Sullivan

Hannis

2015

Ecosystem Services

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Please cite only the published version using the reference above.Your access and use of this document is based on your acceptance of the ResearchSPAce Metadata and Data Policies, as well as applicable law:-https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/policies.htmlUnless you accept the terms of these Policies in full, you do not have permission to download this document.This cover sheet may not be removed from the document.Please scroll down to view the document. Nets and frames, losses and gains: value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England AbstractBiodiversity offsetting (BDO) is presented as capable of mitigating development-related harm to populations of species while simultaneously enhancing economic development. The technique involves constructing such harm as a result of market failures, which can be resolved through market solutions. BDO is contentious, attracting outspoken proponents and opponents in equal measure. We examine competing perspectives of interested non-governmental actors through a structured discourse analysis, using qualitative data coding, of 24 written evidence submissions to the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee's 2013 Inquiry into Biodiversity Offsetting in England. Nuanced positions and areas of agreement notwithstanding, we find that there is a discernible oppositional pattern producing core polarities between organisations favouring and resisting BDO. In interpreting these oppositional dynamics we observe that it is unlikely that this impasse can be resolved since although the debate is framed in terms of differences of view regarding the effectiveness or desirability of specific technical aspects of BDO policy, these differences arise from fundamentally divergent value framings. Struggles over offsetting involve irresolvable value struggles, and negotiations over the assumed (ir)rationality of biodiversity offsetting are thus located firmly within political and ideological arenas. KeywordsBiodiversity offsetting, No Net Loss, discourse analysis, value struggles, framing HighlightsDiscourse analysis of consultation responses on biodiversity offsetting policy in England. Analysis reveals strongly polarised views on market-based conservation technologies. Differences may be irreconcilable, due to divergent and competing value frames.© 2015. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Nature will not suffer herself to be taken by Nets spun out of the Brain. (James Keill, 1738) Introducing Biodiversity Offsetting 1Biodiversity offsetting (BDO 2 ) is proposed as a mitigation technique for managing developmentrelated harm to habitats and associated populations. It requires investment in conservation in one or more locations, distinct from the development site, in such a way as to measurably produce 'no let loss', or even a net gain, of biodiversity in a wider area, and over a specified period of time stretching into the future (BBOP 2009: 3; also see ten Kate 2003; ten K...

show abstract

Section: Value Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nets and frames, losses and gains: Value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England

Sullivan

Hannis

2015

Ecosystem Services

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Here, I follow a theoretical model proposed in [3]. The authors consider two factors for collapse: depletion of natural resources and wealth stratification of population into "commoners" and "elites".…”

Section: The Case Of Civilization Collapsementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A nuclear war would collapse civilization at the fastest pace that one could imagine, so it is in this sense the "greatest threat" to consider. A recent study [3] observed that resource depletion and economic stratification are two factors ever present in the collapse of civilizations. The importance of these threats may perhaps be better appreciated by assuming that if they were not there, the global STS would appear, in practical terms, sustainable in a very 50plus20.org long time frame.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Systemic and Global Dimension of Business Resilience in a Socio-Technical Perspective

Garrido

2016

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper proposes to augment the concept of a business resilience improving process by enlarging such a process with a dimension of external action that addresses the vaster frame of systemic resilience of our societies. To this aim, I propose to widen the concept of socio-technical system (STS) to human societies, based on the idea that the development and survival of human societies has necessary social and technical factors. I also propose a concept of resilience in terms of dealing with failures of STS. Two particular cases of very large failure avoidance are considered: nuclear war and civilizational collapse, and I propose that such cases should be present in the referred dimension of external action of any business resilience program. Because the action of public governments and their cooperation is crucial for advancing global systemic resilience, I suggest that businesses should analyze and model the decisions of governments in a wider context of naturally occurring cooperating and conflicting human groups.

show abstract

“…This "ecological deficit" threatens the sustainability of societies worldwide. Western political and legal institutions have endorsed, encouraged and legitimated this trend of short-sighted, irresponsible and excessive consumption and exploitation of natural resources, which not only has generated pervasive global social inequalities but could eventually, according to some scientist, lead to an imminent "crisis of civilization" (MOTESHARREI et al, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature as “Grundnorm” of Global Constitutionalism: Contributions from the Global South

Carducci¹,

Amaya²

2016

RBD

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Unrelenting consumption and excessive exploitation of natural resources and their interconnection with the intensification of global inequalities seem to be leading contemporary civilization to an imminent collapse. How does constitutionalism address these ecology related issues? The purpose of this paper is two-fold: Firstly, it aims at uncovering the semantics of "constitution and nature" within constitutional law. The authors argue that mainstream dialogue-based approach (trans-national judicial dialogue) to global constitutionalism is actually based on a eurocentric and anthropocentric logos that excludes nature and reduces her to a simple object. Secondly, it discusses two original alternative proposals emerged from the global South: the constitutionalism for biodiversity of the Andean Latin American countries and the African Union's project to establish an International Constitutional Court. While the Andean constitutions prioritize the discussion on the "ecological deficit" and place nature as their "Grundnorm", the African proposal suggests the creation of a universal judicial mechanism for the protection of the "right to democracy". Given the centrality of nature within the innovative Andean constitutional design and the universalistic potential of democratic forms of public deliberation, these two propositions advance a novel approach to constitutionalism with a truly global scope, capable of both facing up impending ecological threats as well as pursuing dignity, justice and equality at global level.

show abstract

Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies

Cited by 320 publications

References 16 publications

Nets and frames, losses and gains: Value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England

Nets and frames, losses and gains: Value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England

The Systemic and Global Dimension of Business Resilience in a Socio-Technical Perspective

Nature as “Grundnorm” of Global Constitutionalism: Contributions from the Global South

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About