In search of lost time: the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy
In search of lost time: the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy
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寻找失去的时间：国际可持续发展政策增长限制的兴衰
DOI：
10.1007/s11625-015-0308-6
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
6
通讯作者：
J. M. Naredo
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作者：
E. Gómez‐Baggethun;J. M. Naredo
国际环境政策未能扭转气候变化、资源枯竭以及生物多样性和生态生命支持系统的普遍衰退。本文追溯了当前环境问题的经济根源，并审查了自罗马俱乐部的报告《增长的极限》出版和1972年在斯德哥尔摩举行的第一届地球峰会庆祝活动以来，到环境署的绿色经济报告出版和2012年在里约举行的最后一届地球峰会庆祝活动，可持续发展政策的演变。我们的重点是发展与环境之间的关系，以及市场和国家在可持续发展政策议程中的作用不断演变的框架。我们回顾了自20世纪70年代初以来有影响力的政策文件和地球峰会宣言。在国际可持续性讨论中确定了三个主要变化：（1）从增长与环境的概念到环境增长的概念的分析转变，（2）从直接的公共监管到基于市场的工具的重点转变，以及（3）从政治到技术官僚的话语转变。我们注意到，在可持续发展政策，以解决增长和环境之间的冲突的尝试已经严重倒退，自1970年代以来，并讨论了观察到的变化模式的关系，在政治和意识形态力量的平衡的变化。最后，我们总结了审查的主要见解，并讨论了增长和环境的可持续性辩论的角度。
International environmental policy has failed to reverse climate change, resource depletion and the generalized decline of biodiversity and ecological life support systems. This paper traces economic roots of current environmental problems and examines the evolution of sustainability policy since the publication of Club of Rome’s reportLimits to growthand the celebration of the first Earth summit in Stockholm in 1972 to the publication of UNEP’sGreen economyreport and the celebration of the last Earth summit in Rio 2012. Our emphasis is on the evolving framing of the relations between growth and the environment and the role of markets and states in the sustainability policy agenda. We review influential policy documents and Earth summit declarations since the early 1970s. Three major changes are identified in international sustainability discourse: (1) an analytical shift from a notion of growth versus the environment to a notion of growthforthe environment, (2) a shift in focus from direct public regulation to market-based instruments, and (3) a shift from a political to a technocratic discourse. We note that attempts in sustainability policy to address the conflict between growth and the environment have pulled back severely since the 1970s and discuss the observed patterns of change in relation to changes in the balance of political and ideological forces. We conclude summarizing main insights from the review and discussing perspectives of the sustainability debate on growth and the environment.