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

Longo, Stefano B.; Clark, Brett; Shriver, Thomas E.; Clausen, Rebecca

doi:10.3390/su8050437

Cited by 60 publications

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“…Thus, the integration of a tourism-based mangrove forest conservation system that involves the role of community participation will encourage increased economic effort and community independence to achieve sustainable development goals in the Tallo watershed of Makassar City. Local level participation is very important to achieve global goals, i.e., sustainable development [73].…”

Section: Management Control and Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural Resource Conservation Based on Community Economic Empowerment: Perspectives on Watershed Management and Slum Settlements in Makassar City, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Surya

Syafri

Sahban³

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of slum development, community poverty, and community behavior on environmental degradation in the Tallo river basin in Makassar City and to analyze the effects of natural resource conservation, economic empowerment, community capacity building on the productivity of economic enterprises and ecosystem-based sustainability. This study uses a qualitative-quantitative approach in sequence. Data were obtained through observation, surveys, and documentation. The research findings show that slums, poverty, and community behavior have a significant effect on the decline in the environmental quality of the Tallo river basin in Makassar City, with a coefficient of determination of 32.2%. The results showed that the conservation of natural resources, economic empowerment, and community capacity building were positively correlated to increasing the productivity of community economic enterprises and the sustainability of watershed ecosystems. The assertion is that watershed conservation, integrated with economic empowerment, contributes positively to economic, social, and environmental sustainability. This study offers the concept of conservation of natural resources based on community economic empowerment as a solution to the handling of slums for the case of metropolitan cities in Indonesia, to support metropolitan city development programs nationally.

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Section: Management Control and Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural Resource Conservation Based on Community Economic Empowerment: Perspectives on Watershed Management and Slum Settlements in Makassar City, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Surya

Syafri

Sahban³

et al. 2020

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“…The models and techniques put forth by the geoengineering agenda are not simply ecologically and socially risky, they are, as Marcuse predicted, rooted in a vision of a nature as a set of passive resources that can be fully controlled in line with the demands of capital. Thus, we agree with others that bringing the question of capitalism to the forefront of social-environmental analysis, as opposed to assuming capitalism's naturalness or immutability, is crucial for explaining environmental harms, shedding light on unsustainable solutions to the environmental crisis, and locating more sustainable social futures [145].…”

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confidence: 77%

A Critical Examination of Geoengineering: Economic and Technological Rationality in Social Context

2018

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Geoengineering-specifically stratospheric aerosol injection-is not only risky, but supports powerful economic interests, protects an inherently ecologically harmful social formation, relegates the fundamental social-structural changes needed to address climate change, and is rooted in a vision of a nature as a set of passive resources that can be fully controlled in line with the demands of capital. The case for geoengineering is incomprehensible without analyzing the social context that gave birth to it: capitalism's inability to overcome a contradiction between the need to accumulate capital, on the one hand, and the need to maintain a stable climate system on the other. Substantial emissions reductions, unlike geoengineering, are costly, rely more on social-structural than technical changes, and are at odds with the current social order. Because of this, geoengineering will increasingly be considered a core response to climate change. In light of Herbert Marcuse's critical theory, the promotion of geoengineering as a market-friendly and high-tech strategy is shown to reflect a society that cannot set substantive aims through reason and transforms what should be considered means (technology and economic production) into ends themselves. Such a condition echoes the first-generation Frankfurt School's central thesis: instrumental rationality remains irrational.

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“…Take, for example, the genealogical relationship between sustainability research and international development projects (Longo et al. ; Redclift ; Wikan ). These scholars suggest that the efforts of governmental and non‐governmental organizations to specify a sustainable or resilient system reflect a Neoliberal continuation of international developmental policy following World War II, one that unintentionally legitimizes the present status quo as an inevitable outcome of one history.…”

Section: Sustainability As a Relative Process: Archaeology And Politimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Political ecologists have critically investigated the application of ecological ideas like sustainability and resilience to contemporary social phenomena and demonstrated how these ideas mask structural inequalities at different scales (Escobar 1995;Hornborg 2009;MacKinnon and Derickson 2013). Take, for example, the genealogical relationship between sustainability research and international development projects (Longo et al 2016;Redclift 1987;Wikan 1995). These scholars suggest that the efforts of governmental and non-governmental organizations to specify a sustainable or resilient system reflect a Neoliberal continuation of international developmental policy following World War II, one that unintentionally legitimizes the present status quo as an inevitable outcome of one history.…”

Section: Sustainability As a Relative Process: Archaeology And Politimentioning

confidence: 99%

8 Sustainability as a Relative Process: A Long‐Term Perspective on Sustainability in the Northern Basin of Mexico

Millhauser

Morehart

2018

Archaeological Papers of the American

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The notion of “sustainable development” has drawn attention to the precarious balance between populations and natural resources in terms of current and future needs. Approaches to the study of sustainability that focus on socio‐ecological systems may obscure the fact that what is sustainable at a broad scale may not be optimal for an entire population. Political ecology offers a complementary lens to investigate how relationships between humans and their environments unfold within historically situated structures of power. Archaeology provides a means to extend the historical gaze of political ecology to account for long‐term patterns of sustainability at multiple scales. This paper applies an archaeological approach to the historical political ecology of the northern Basin of Mexico. Specifically, it focuses on the people who settled in the wetland environment of Lake Xaltocan and their dynamic relationships with each other, land, and water over the last 2500 years. Over this time, local actors have adjusted to a variety of external constraints, from ecological change to political upheaval. A long‐term perspective reveals how politically‐situated actions transformed Lake Xaltocan physically and conceptually and how the sustainability of local regimes was unevenly determined by access to power rather than the husbanding of resources.

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

Cited by 60 publications

References 76 publications

Natural Resource Conservation Based on Community Economic Empowerment: Perspectives on Watershed Management and Slum Settlements in Makassar City, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Natural Resource Conservation Based on Community Economic Empowerment: Perspectives on Watershed Management and Slum Settlements in Makassar City, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

A Critical Examination of Geoengineering: Economic and Technological Rationality in Social Context

8 Sustainability as a Relative Process: A Long‐Term Perspective on Sustainability in the Northern Basin of Mexico

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