The Limits to Growth

Meadows, Donella H.; Randers, Jørgen; Behrens, William W.

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“…The first is grounded in systems dynamics theory. This literature (e.g., Folke et al, ; Folke et al, ; Gunderson, ; Holling, ; Meadows, Meadows, & Randers, ; Walker & Meyers, ; Westley et al, ) views the biosphere as a single system—the Earth System—which is composed of a series of subsystems, which may be social, ecological or economic in nature. These interconnected subsystems exist across a range of scales, and are each defined through their own carrying capacity, or tipping point.…”

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Target‐setting for ecological resilience: Are companies setting environmental sustainability targets in line with planetary thresholds?

Haffar

Searcy

2018

Bus Strat Env

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The purpose of this research is to explore the extent to which companies are setting organization‐centric versus resilience‐based environmental targets in their sustainability reports. We define ecological resilience through the planetary thresholds identified by the Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework. On this basis, we define resilience‐based targets as corporate environmental targets that are connected (quantitatively or qualitatively) to these thresholds. Sustainability reports issued by 50 sustainability leader firms in Canada were analyzed to identify environmental sustainability targets. These targets were classified as resilience‐based and organization‐centric based on their connection to the PB framework. A total of 303 targets were identified, distributed across eight different corporate performance areas. None of these targets was found to be quantitatively tied to any PB thresholds. A small number of targets did nevertheless make reference to the global/regional ecological processes that underpin some of the Boundaries. These targets made reference to only five of the nine Boundaries described by the framework. This study highlights the extent of organization‐centric environmental targets in corporate sustainability reports. The implications of setting such targets are discussed, along with the challenges of adopting resilience‐based targets. This study also discusses the reasons why companies may not be adopting a resilience‐based approach to set sustainability targets and measure performance, despite increasing calls from stakeholders to do so. On this basis, several recommendations are also provided for managers to guide resilience‐based target‐ and goal‐setting.

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Target‐setting for ecological resilience: Are companies setting environmental sustainability targets in line with planetary thresholds?

Haffar

Searcy

2018

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“…Because of this awareness (cf. [20,37]), the Chicago school perspective became connected with the more macro research field of material flows-hence the second form of urban ecology [31]. Herein lies the origin of the 'technocratic' circularity within urban metabolism [33].…”

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Circular Area Design or Circular Area Functioning? A Discourse-Institutional Analysis of Circular Area Developments in Amsterdam and Utrecht, The Netherlands

Berghe

Vos

2019

Sustainability

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The hypothesis of this paper is that the circular economy (CE) has the potential to (re)balance the conflict within urban spatial planning between ‘place as a location’ and the ‘organization of space’. The former dominates the latter following a shift from a Fordist towards a finance and real-estate driven regime. A consequence is that existing manufacturing areas are increasingly transformed into residential and commercial areas. However, this conflicts with the rationale of CE, namely that to end the linear economy, externalized activities, such as the (re)manufacturing of waste, should be internalized again, especially within urban regions. Emphasized by the EU, The Netherlands have the ambition to become fully circular in 2050. To test our hypothesis, we focus on two ongoing circular area developments in Amsterdam and Utrecht. By performing a discourse-institutional analysis, we detect in both case studies a change in discourse towards CE. Our results show that in contrast to our hypothesis, the concept of circularity is not emphasizing the ‘organization of space’, but even accelerating ‘space as a location’, increasingly transforming urban industrial areas into circular built residential and commercial areas. We conclude with spatial policy recommendations regarding the ambitions of a future CE.

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“…As shown in Figure , eco‐development is also the end point of the development view continuum that evolved from anthropocentric and economic growth‐based modernization theories into more eco‐centric and nature‐based alternative development views (Chancellor, Norman, Farmer, & Coe, ; Hall & Lew, ), in other words, from economic capitalism to ecological capitalism (Meadows, Meadows, Randers, & Behrens, ). Despite involving an increasing concern for environmental degradation, capitalism and human growth is always the “main melody” of these development views (Chancellor et al, ).…”

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A modernism‐based interpretation of sustainable tourism

Zhang

Chan

2019

Journal of Tourism Research

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To promote knowledge creation and transfer, this study adopts a modernism‐based interpretation to reduce the conceptual vagueness and the terminological confusion of sustainable tourism. On the basis of the intensional definition techniques, namely, etymology and genus‐and‐differentia, the precising and theoretical definition of sustainable tourism was constructed. Specifically, sustainable tourism was identified as a resource‐concerned tourism development ethic with human needs for growth, ideology for continuity, and global context as main constructs. This conceptual framework levels up sustainable tourism as a tourism development concern rather than a specific tourism form, thereby contributing to consistent communication in both academia and practices.

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The Limits to Growth

Cited by 237 publications

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Target‐setting for ecological resilience: Are companies setting environmental sustainability targets in line with planetary thresholds?

Target‐setting for ecological resilience: Are companies setting environmental sustainability targets in line with planetary thresholds?

Circular Area Design or Circular Area Functioning? A Discourse-Institutional Analysis of Circular Area Developments in Amsterdam and Utrecht, The Netherlands

A modernism‐based interpretation of sustainable tourism

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