Just sustainabilities and local action: evidence from 400 flagship initiatives
Just sustainabilities and local action: evidence from 400 flagship initiatives
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DOI：
10.1080/13549839.2016.1248379
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Westman, Linda
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作者：
Broto, Vanesa Castan;Westman, Linda
可持续发展已经成为指导当地可持续发展行动的有力话语。作为一个总体论述，它规定了四项政策原则：(1)解决福祉和生活质量；（二）满足今世后代的需要；(3)在承认、过程、程序和结果方面实现公正和公平；(4)在生态系统范围内生存。在之前呼吁让公共和私人行为者参与可持续发展之后，本文探讨了这些原则在多大程度上可以实际地融入地方环境治理。对世界各区域200多个城市的400项可持续发展倡议的数据库进行了分析，以检查当地的可持续发展倡议是否已经明确或含蓄地体现了可持续发展原则。这一分析表明，在这个样本中，在解决正义和公平原则以及生态系统限制方面存在重大缺陷。然而，数据也表明，地方行动可能已经实现了可持续发展的某些方面，即使这并不总是明确的。报告最后呼吁各方协调努力，将公正的可持续发展话语转化为在实地领导行动的地方行动者。
Just sustainabilities has emerged as a powerful discourse to guide local action towards sustainability. As an overarching discourse, it prescribes four policy principles: (1) addressing well-being and quality of life; (2) meeting the needs of present and future generations; (3) enabling justice and equity in terms of recognition, process, procedure, and outcome; and (4) living within ecosystem limits. Following previous calls for engaging public and private actors in just sustainabilities, this paper inquiries about the extent to which these principles can be realistically integrated in local environmental governance. A database of 400 sustainability initiatives in more than 200 cities in all world regions is analysed to examine whether just sustainabilities principles are already enshrined, explicitly or implicitly, in local sustainability initiatives. This analysis suggests that, in this sample, there is a significant deficit in terms of addressing the principles of justice and equity, and ecosystem limits. However, the data also suggest that local action may already be delivering some aspects of just sustainabilities, even if this is not always explicit. The paper concludes with a call for a coordinated effort to translate a just sustainabilities discourse to local actors leading action on the ground.