Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing
Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing
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DOI：
10.1002/sd.1692
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
12.5
通讯作者：
J. Schleicher;M. Schaafsma;N. Burgess;C. Sandbrook;F. Danks;C. Cowie;B. Vira
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作者：
J. Schleicher;M. Schaafsma;N. Burgess;C. Sandbrook;F. Danks;C. Cowie;B. Vira
可持续发展的首要目标、人类福祉和自然环境之间的关系一直被狭隘地理解。本文的重点是将自然环境视为幸福和贫困概念的“组成部分”或内部因素的可能性和含义，而不是“决定因素”或工具性外部因素。我们对幸福和贫困的哲学解释和概念框架的回顾表明，将环境视为一个构成要素在哲学上是合理的，在概念上是稳健的，在经验上是有根据的。我们认为，如果不考虑这些缺失的环境因素，可能会导致对福祉和贫困的多个维度及其潜在驱动因素的不完整捕捉。这种更广泛的环境-福祉关系框架有可能为新一代个人层面的福祉和贫困指标提供信息，创造出反映可持续发展目标中雄心勃勃的扩大范围的多维贫困指标。版权所有©2017作者。由ERP Environment和John Wiley & Sons Ltd出版的《可持续发展》
The relationship between sustainable development's prime goal, human wellbeing, and the natural environment has been narrowly conceived. This paper focuses on the possibility and the implications of treating the natural environment as a ‘constituent’, or internal element, of the concepts of wellbeing and poverty, as opposed to a ‘determinant’, or instrumental, external factor. Our review of philosophical accounts and conceptual frameworks of wellbeing and poverty suggests that treating the environment as a constituent element is philosophically sound, conceptually robust and empirically grounded. We argue that failing to consider these missing environmental aspects can result in an incomplete capturing of the multiple dimensions of wellbeing and poverty, and their underlying drivers. This broader framing of the environment–wellbeing relationship has the potential to inform a new generation of individual level wellbeing and poverty indicators, creating measures of multidimensional poverty that reflect the broadened scope ambitiously articulated in the Sustainable Development Goals. Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Sustainable Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd