Environmental sustainability and economic cooperation in the longue duree: A comparative approach to locality, history, and development

近年来，对经济增长和环境的现有理解面临多重挑战，在平衡经济、社会和环境目标方面存在困难。人们越来越认识到气候变化和自然资源枯竭带来的挑战，以及为未来经济增长和环境可持续性制定平衡办法的紧迫性。与此同时，冠状病毒大流行对经济的不均衡影响和2008年金融危机的挥之不去的影响继续提出一些重要问题，涉及社会和经济平等、如何管理获得财政资源的机会以及如何在由大型跨国公司主导的全球化经济体系中保护个人的机构和机会。这个网络试图探索和弥合我们这个时代的这两个问题--可持续发展和经济不平等。特别是，我们寻求通过与历史学家、人类学家、政治学家、地理学家和社会学家进行比较和跨学科接触，探索经济合作和可持续资源管理的不同模式，目标是将未来的研究议程发展到可持续增长中，以纳入各种经济、环境和社会目标。当代环境和经济危机突出了将人文方法纳入增长和发展的重要性，这将带来可持续和公平的资源管理模式。因此，该网络将人文和社会科学研究人员聚集在一起，以探索围绕不同经济合作和资源管理模式的历史和文化背景。通过这种方式，我们寻求唤起对可持续发展的新理解，包括过去和现在，同时促进跨学科和跨区域的新合作，以突出可持续增长的社会和文化背景的重要性。特别是，我们试图通过韩国Kye的例子促进对可持续增长的新见解和比较研究--这种组织在整个韩国历史上一直被用来管理广泛的资源，包括森林、渔业权、教育和财政资源，仅举几例。通过将韩国Kye组织的例子与其他区域的经济合作和可持续发展的比较模式进行对话，我们的目的是为今后对替代增长和经济活动模式的研究提供新的方向。总体而言，该项目将寻找历史上的具体例子和当代案例研究之间的联系，以便更深入地了解环境可持续增长与社会和经济平等之间的相互关系。我们将创造一个跨学科对话的环境，让研究人员可以相互学习，同时将KYE的讨论作为一种工具来扩大对可持续发展的理解，并为未来的合作研究创造基础。在整个过程中，我们将通过主办访问研究奖学金和国际研讨会和会议的方案，促进韩国和英国研究人员之间的紧密联系，这些方案不仅将为学术知识做出宝贵贡献，还将支持研究人员--特别是早期职业研究人员--发展未来的研究和国际合作。

In recent years there have been multiple challenges to the existing understandings of economic growth and the environment, and the difficulties in balancing economic, social, and environmental goals. There is growing awareness of the challenges posed by climate change and the depletion of natural resources, and the urgency of developing balanced approaches for future economic growth and environmental sustainability. At the same time, the uneven economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the lingering repercussions of the 2008 financial crisis continue to raise important questions regarding social and economic equality, how to manage access to financial resources, and how to protect the agency and opportunity of individuals within a globalized economic system dominated by large multinational corporations. This network seeks to explore and bridge these two issues of our times - sustainable development and economic inequality. In particular, we seek to explore diverse models of economic cooperation and sustainable resource management through comparative and interdisciplinary engagement with historians, anthropologists, political scientists, geographers, and sociologists, with the goal of developing future research agenda into sustainable growth that can incorporate a diverse range of economic, environmental, and social objectives.Contemporary environmental and economic crises highlight the importance of incorporating a humanistic approach to growth and development that brings to the fore sustainable and equitable patterns of resource management. As such, this network brings together humanities and social science researchers in order to explore the historical and cultural contexts surrounding diverse models of economic cooperation and resource management. In this way, we seek to provoke new understandings of sustainable development, both past and present, while also fostering new collaborations across disciplines and regions in order to highlight the significance of the social and cultural context of sustainable growth. In particular, we seek to prompt new insights and comparative studies into sustainable growth through the example of the Korean kye - a type of organization that has been used to manage a wide range of resources throughout Korean history including forests, fishery rights, education, and financial resources, to name just a few. By bringing examples of Korean kye organizations over time into dialogue with comparative models of economic cooperation and sustainable development from other regions, we aim to generate new directions for future research into alternative models of growth and economic activity. Overall, this project will search for links between historically specific examples and contemporary case studies in order to develop a deeper understanding of the interrelations between environmentally sustainable growth and social and economic equality. We will create an environment for interdisciplinary conversations where researchers can learn from one another, while using discussions of kye as a vehicle to expand the understanding of sustainable development and create a foundation for future collaborative research. Throughout this process, we will foster strong ties between researchers in both South Korea and the United Kingdom by hosting a programme of visiting research fellowships and international workshops and conferences that will not only provide a valuable contribution to academic knowledge but also support researchers - especially early career researchers - to develop future research and international collaborations.