Why Ecological Modernization and Sustainable Development Should Not Be Conflated

2020 ◽  
pp. 391-417
Author(s):  
Oluf Langhelle
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
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.

MODERNIZATION OF THE SYSTEM OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY OF ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
Svitlana LUTKOVSKA
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Ecological Safety ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Socio Economic Development

The article describes in detail the essence of the ecological modernization concept, modernization conceptual provisions of the ecological safety system of sustainable development and system structure of the ecological modernization. The basic stages of theory development of the ecological modernization are considered. It has been established that eco-modernization determines the transition from a pre-green society through complex, long-lasting reforms to a green one. It envisages improvement of economic, political and social mechanisms of social development, assimilation of advanced industrial and information technologies for a certain historical period, economic forms, accompanying social and political institutions. Environmental modernization should become a nationwide strategy, making it possible to mobilize and concentrate the country’s existing resources to meet the challenges. The transition to a sustainable development model requires a harmonious combination of socio-economic growth and environmental security. An important role in this process is played by the application harmonization of technical, technological and organizational-economic innovations in the resource and environmental sphere. The introduction of innovative scientific and technological solutions, the development of high-tech industries will help increase the economy competitiveness and align its interests with the environmental and social spheres. In order to develop a mechanism for managing the ecological modernization of socio-economic development, it is necessary to establish its key tasks: the modernization type formation of environmentally-oriented activity of society; the ecological safety guarantee of innovative updating of enterprise production; the management actions coordination in the regional development system on the basis of updating the interests balance between business, government and society; enhanced reproduction of natural resources and factors based on updated technologies. Today, environmental modernization in Ukraine cannot be achieved on a large scale because of its focus on economic growth policy rather than sustainable development. The priority tasks of modernization of socio-economic development with the management purpose of ecological modernization are defined. The technological platforms of ecological development, their purpose, tasks and main directions of realization are analyzed. Keywords: environmental modernization, theory of environmental modernization, sustainable development, environmental technologies.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development and Ecological Modernization: Boundary Discourses between “Strong” and “Weak” Approaches

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Ricardo Cunha Dias ◽  
Paulo Castro Seixas ◽  
Nadine Lobner
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Operational Interpretation ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Conceptual Evolution

The concepts of “sustainable development” and “ecological modernization” are todays’ main discourses of action on the global environmental crisis. However, the quest of priorities interpretation within concepts is raised: there is a path dependence of the hegemonic worldview of techno-economic progress that was supposed to be overcome. The objective of this text is to analyse how this dependence influenced the evolution of such concepts and their operational proposals. Methodologically, the research is based on a literature review on discourses of these concepts. A typology of “strong” and “weak” discourses highlights the possibilities of “business as usual” in its operational interpretation as well as the ways to overcome it. The results show that the confrontation between them lead to a conceptual evolution of sustainable development and ecological modernization that merges into a common agenda: the governance of ambivalence between economic and social progress and environmental frontiers. The text concludes by proposing the existence of a discursive game between “survival” and “tranquillity”. This highlights an essential tension between environmental mitigation and institutional change that has accompanied the political agenda in the past 50 years. The resulting reflexive governance as a choice implies a broad participation in decision-making processes so that environmental trade-offs are collectively discussed, and responsibilities are shared. Notwithstanding, the article claims that this essential tension further implies questioning if governance may not also be a new discourse of appeasement and political unaccountability.

scholarly journals Ecological modernization of large river basins as a factor of sustainable development of the territory (for example, the Volga River Basin and Yangtze River Basin)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
Galina Eduardovna Kudinova ◽  
Gennady Samuilovich Rozenberg ◽  
Natalia Viktorovna Kostina ◽  
Anastasiya Gennadievna Rozenberg
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Yangtze River Basin ◽  
Large River ◽  
Volga Basin ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Volga River ◽  
Volga River Basin ◽  
The Sustainable Development

The paper discusses the basic concepts of ecological modernization. The process of ecological modernization in Russia is examined. One compared the progress of ecological modernization in Russia with one in the People's Republic of China on the example of the Volga basin and the basin of the Yangtze River. Provides cluster analysis of the Volga basin territory in relation to the sustainable development of the territories and why for further sustainable development in all areas of economic and social sphere, it is necessary to observe the principles of ecological modernization. Sustainable development of the Volga river basin largely determines the sustainable development towards ecological modernization in the area. The main practical steps to ecomodernization of Russian economy are suggested.

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