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

近年来，对经济增长与环境的现有认识面临多重挑战，经济、社会和环境目标之间的平衡面临困难。人们日益认识到气候变化和自然资源枯竭带来的挑战，以及迫切需要为今后的经济增长和环境可持续性制定平衡的办法。与此同时，新型冠状病毒大流行对经济的不均衡影响以及2008年金融危机的持续影响，继续提出有关社会和经济平等、如何管理获得金融资源的机会以及如何在大型跨国公司主导的全球化经济体系中保护个人的代理权和机会的重要问题。该网络寻求探讨和弥合我们时代的这两个问题-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的比较和跨学科参与，探索经济合作和可持续资源管理的各种模式，目标是将未来的研究议程发展到可持续增长中，可以将各种经济，环境，当代的环境和经济危机突出表明，必须对增长和发展采取以人为本的办法，突出可持续和公平的资源管理模式。因此，该网络汇集了人文和社会科学研究人员，以探索围绕经济合作和资源管理的不同模式的历史和文化背景。通过这种方式，我们寻求激发对过去和现在的可持续发展的新理解，同时促进跨学科和区域的新合作，以突出可持续增长的社会和文化背景的重要性。特别是，我们寻求通过韩国界的例子来促进对可持续增长的新见解和比较研究。韩国界是一种组织，在韩国历史上被用来管理广泛的资源，包括森林、渔业权、教育和金融资源，仅举几例。通过将韩国kye组织的例子与其他地区的经济合作和可持续发展的比较模式进行对话，我们的目标是为未来研究替代增长和经济活动模式提供新的方向。总的来说，本项目将寻找历史上的具体实例与当代个案研究之间的联系，以便更深入地了解环境上可持续的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，研究人员可以相互学习，同时使用kye的讨论作为一种工具，以扩大对可持续发展的理解，并为未来的合作研究奠定基础。在整个过程中，我们将通过举办访问研究奖学金和国际研讨会和会议，不仅为学术知识做出宝贵贡献，而且还支持研究人员-特别是早期职业研究人员-发展未来的研究和国际合作，促进韩国和英国研究人员之间的紧密联系。

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.