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Fair and Inclusive Environmental/Social Transition Alternatives: Learning from the 'Living Well' and 'Green Economy' pathways to sustainability

公平和包容的环境/社会转型替代方案：从“美好生活”和“绿色经济”可持续发展之路中学习

基本信息

批准号：
ES/N00079X/1
负责人：
Karen Frances Bell
金额：
$ 20.02万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN00079X%2F1
关键词：
Fair Inclusive Environmental Social Transition

项目摘要

This project will address the urgent question of how to carry out an equitable, just and effective transition to a sustainable society. It will do this by providing evidence and analysis which can inform current social science debates regarding the relative usefulness and role of markets/governments, economic growth/de-growth, structures/agents and technology/politics to achieve balanced social, economic and environmental goals. In order to examine these overarching questions, two newly emerging environmental/social paradigms, the market-based 'Green Economy' and the redistributive 'Living Well' approaches will be investigated and contrasted. They will be examined in terms of their relative merits for enabling sustainable development and environmental justice goals to be met, according to the new, post-2015, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (UN, 2014) and Environmental Justice Indicator (EJI) criteria (Bell, 2014). The project will assess the efficacy, efficiency, equitability, political acceptability, administrative viability and transferability of the two contrasting environmental/social transition pathways/paradigms through (1) secondary analysis of relevant international, longitudinal (2000-2016), country-level quantitative datasets; and (2) primary collection and analysis of relevant qualitative data in South Korea (a recognised international leader of the Green Economy approach) and Bolivia (at the forefront of developing the Living Well approach). This will involve identifying the essential components and contexts of the Green Economy and Living Well paradigms; mapping their associated policies, programmes and processes; establishing commonalities and divergences, in theory and in practice; assessing their relative ability to achieve selected SDGs and EJI criteria; distinguishing the most and least beneficial aspects of the paradigms and their related policies; ascertaining the opportunities and risks that each creates; and pinpointing the barriers to related policy implementation. Data will be derived from SDG and EJI relevant longitudinal statistical data from a range of sources; repeated interviews with 50 stakeholders (i.e. policy-beneficiaries, policy-makers, policy-implementers); and participatory observations in four communities (one rural, one urban in each country). The interviews will use cutting edge visual research techniques, involving artefacts and video, to help the participants think in a more deeply reflective and creative way, aid cross-cultural communication, enhance engagement and rapport, and facilitate dissemination via visual media so as to reach more diverse audiences. This work is original in that, though there have been some separate descriptive studies and new initiatives on these overarching policy paradigms (see, for example UNEP, 2013a; 2013b; 2013c; 2013d; 2014), there has been no published academic work which systematically examines their potential, actual and relative impact on delivering the SDGs and meeting EJI criteria. Through the evidence and analysis produced, the project will inform the creation of more effective, integrated and coherent environmental/social transition policies and practices by facilitating policy makers and policy implementers to make better decisions regarding the steps to a sustainable society. In addition, policy informers and activists can use the information to better substantiate their demands and decide upon strategy. Furthermore, the study will provoke and deepen debate among academics engaged in research on political ecology, development, political science, environmental studies and other related areas. This expanded knowledge base and debate will contribute to the improvement of local, national and global environments, leading to greater security, health and wellbeing for all of us.

该项目将解决如何公平、公正和有效地过渡到可持续社会的紧迫问题。它将通过提供证据和分析来做到这一点，这些证据和分析可以为当前的社会科学辩论提供信息，这些辩论涉及市场/政府，经济增长/去增长，结构/代理人和技术/政治的相对有用性和作用，以实现平衡的社会，经济和环境目标。为了研究这些至关重要的问题，两个新出现的环境/社会范式，以市场为基础的“绿色经济”和再分配的“生活得好”的方法将进行调查和对比。将根据新的2015年后联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）（UN，2014）和环境正义指标（EJI）标准（Bell，2014），对它们在实现可持续发展和环境正义目标方面的相对优势进行审查。该项目将评估两种截然不同的环境/社会转型途径/模式的功效、效率、公平性、政治可接受性、行政可行性和可转移性，方法是：（1）对相关的国际、纵向和国际环境/社会转型途径/模式进行二次分析，（2000-2016年），国家一级的定量数据集;以及（2）韩国相关定性数据的初步收集和分析（公认的绿色经济方法的国际领导者）和玻利维亚（在发展“美好生活”方法方面走在前列）。这将涉及确定绿色经济和美好生活模式的基本组成部分和背景;绘制相关政策、方案和进程;确定理论和实践上的共同点和差异;评估其实现选定的可持续发展目标和扩大联合标准的相对能力;区分模式及其相关政策的最有利和最不利方面;查明每一种情况所产生的机会和风险;并查明相关政策执行的障碍。数据将来自可持续发展目标和EJI相关的纵向统计数据，这些数据来自一系列来源;与50个利益相关者（即政策受益者、政策制定者、政策执行者）的反复访谈;以及在四个社区（每个国家一个农村，一个城市）的参与性观察。访谈将使用先进的视觉研究技术，包括人工制品和视频，以帮助参与者以更深刻的反思和创造性的方式思考，帮助跨文化沟通，增强参与和融洽关系，并促进通过视觉媒体传播，以达到更多样化的受众。这项工作是原创性的，因为尽管对这些总体政策范式有一些单独的描述性研究和新举措（例如，见环境署，2013年a; 2013年b; 2013年c; 2013年d; 2014年），但还没有发表学术著作，系统地审查其对实现可持续发展目标和满足EJI标准的潜在、实际和相对影响。通过所产生的证据和分析，该项目将通过促进决策者和政策执行者就实现可持续社会的步骤作出更好的决定，为制定更有效、综合和一致的环境/社会过渡政策和做法提供信息。此外，政策告密者和活动家可以利用这些信息更好地证实他们的要求，并决定战略。此外，这项研究将在从事政治生态学、发展、政治学、环境研究和其他相关领域研究的学者中引发和深化辩论。这一扩大的知识基础和辩论将有助于改善地方、国家和全球环境，为我们所有人带来更大的安全、健康和福祉。