期刊
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
卷 20, 期 2, 页码 220-228出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.12.006
关键词
Sustainable development; Ecological economics; World environment organization; Scale; Environmental governance
资金
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Killam Trust
- Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies
The persistent failures of international environmental governance initiatives to halt the degradation of the global commons are directly linked to the implicit worldview and assumptions fueling the proliferation of industrial society. These include an instrumental conception on non-human nature, rampant materialism, technological optimism, and an expansionary economics premised on the axiomatic necessity of unconstrained growth. Permeating contemporary environmental governance regimes, it is argued that these premises are fundamentally incompatible with the requirements of environmental sustainability. Proceeding from the perspective of ecological economics, it is further argued that achieving environmental sustainability in industrial society requires foremost that we restructure and constrain the scale of economic activities relative to global biocapacity. It is concluded that a scale-based approach to governing the environmental commons, operationalized by a strong world environment organization, offers at least a partial solution to this conundrum. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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