scholarly journals Towards industrial ecology: sustainable development as a concept of ecological modernization

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Huber
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Ecological Modernization

scholarly journals Triangular Trajectory of Sustainable Development: Panel Analysis of the OECD Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2374
Author(s):  
Taewook Huh ◽  
Yun Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Panel Analysis ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Renewable Electricity ◽  
Social Expenditure

This study analyzes how the three pillars of sustainable development (economic growth, social justice, and environmental protection) have influenced each other for the past twenty-six years (from 1987 to 2013). The relationship between the triangular pillar of SD can be characterized by “ecological modernization”, “eco-socialism”, and the traditional debate between growth and distribution. This paper examined the correlation analysis of the nine representative variables in the three categories, adopting the cases of twenty-six OECD countries. In particular, the panel analysis (PCSE models) was conducted to identify the seven independent determinants affecting both response (dependent) variables and environmental factors (“CO2 emissions” and “renewable electricity output”). In short, during the entire period, the findings reveal that all economic and social variables did not have a positive impact on reducing CO2 emissions. However, the variables of “employment in industry” and “social expenditure” are effected by the increase of renewable electricity output. Consequently, highlighting the detailed findings different for each set period (1987–2013, 1987–2002, and 2003–2013), this study suggests the implications of the analysis result in the light of the theories of ecological modernization and eco-socialism.

scholarly journals Sustainable Living: Bridging the North-South Divide in Lifestyles and Consumption Debates

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Hayward ◽  
Joyashree Roy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
The North ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Global North ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Individual

This article presents a critical assessment of the literature on sustainable consumption in the global North and South, in the context of accelerated and megascale transitions that are needed across all human activities, in ways that “leave no one behind,” as envisaged in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It challenges two dominant, related research foci: an emphasis on the individual and individual aspirations of the good life, and the policy incrementalism of rational, ecological modernization. Although conceding individuals must act consciously to advance sustainability, nuanced interpretations of collective sustainable living rarely feature in mainstream research. Discussion highlights values of extended family, tribe and community solidarity, and human and nonhuman interrelationships for harmonious, peaceful, spiritual, and material coexistence. Concepts such as Ahimsa (India), Buen Vivir (South America), Ubuntu (Africa), Hauora (New Zealand), or Shiawase and Ikigai (Japan), for example, can enrich understandings of sustainable living as long-term collective action for sustainable development and reducing climate change.

Strategic Priorities of the System Modernization Environmental Safety under Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1124
Author(s):  
Grygorii KALETNIK ◽  
Svitlana LUTKOVSKA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
State Control ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Household Waste Management

In this article it is proved that strategic planning and implementation of strategic priorities of guaranteeing environmental safety as a phenomenon and process of predicting the future and preparing for the future is interpreted quite widely: as an integrated process of preparation and decision making of a certain type, as formulating goals and defining ways to achieve them, as ensuring preparedness of economic and social objects for competition in the markets, etc. Strategic planning is found to be an adaptive process that regularly develops and corrects a system of sufficiently formalized plans, reviewing the content of their implementation measures on the basis of continuous monitoring and evaluating changes occurring externally and internally. The mechanism of realization of interrelation of strategic tasks and operational decisions in strategic planning is developed. Priorities of improvement of modernization measures in the field of ecological safety development have been elaborated, which consist of the following components: 1) development of normative and legal base in the sphere of ensuring ecological and natural-anthropogenic safety, its adaptation to the norms of international and European law; 2) institutionalization of ecological and natural anthropogenic safety on the basis of sustainable development; 3) development of information-analytical, scientifically sound monitoring system of environmental and natural-anthropogenic safety; 4) forecasting the state of environmental and anthropogenic safety by 2030; 5) increasing attention to the problems of ensuring environmental and natural-anthropogenic safety at the regional level and identifying strategic directions for overcoming them, based on regional peculiarities of the danger; 6) state control over ecological development of sectors of national economy, development of innovative technologies, ecological modernization; 7) overcoming problems of industrial and household waste management; 8) the social imperative to ensure environmental safety; 9) improvement of mechanisms of financial extrabudgetary provision of ecological and natural anthropogenic safety at micro and macro levels; 10) support for bilateral and multilateral parity security cooperation.

scholarly journals Ecologically related transformation of the logistics theory: directions and content

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Inna Koblianska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Theory Change ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Logistic Management ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact ◽  
Development Paradigm ◽  
Ecoindustrial Parks

In the context of sustainable development, the need to improve the models of functioning and development of society, as well as the scientific knowledge underlying them is urgent. In particular, an ecologically oriented improvement of logistics science is needed to ensure the full use of its tools to resolve the modern socio-ecological and economic problems of resource use. In this regard, it is important to identify the directions and content of the ecologically related transformation of theoretical and methodological foundations of logistics, which is the purpose of this article. The paper outlines the main directions of logistic theory change in the context of the sustainable development paradigm. These changes embrace the improvement of the methodological basis of logistic science on the ground of provisions of ecological economics, environmental ethics, and principles of industrial ecology, etc. As a result, modern logistic management goals and objectives include environmental and social targets, and wider interpretation of material flow allows to manage the waste, emissions, secondary materials, and flaw components. The improvement of a methodical framework of logistic decision-making is associated with the environmentally adjusted calculation and analysis of total costs, proceeding from the assessment of environmental aspects of flow processes through the use of material flows analysis and life cycle assessment tools. Thus, the conceptual provisions of logistics may be used to solve various tasks in the context of sustainable development, in particular: to minimize the negative environmental impact of certain production process, enterprise, network (supply chain), as well as to form the regulatory framework for the promotion of ecoindustrial parks.

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