Is sustainable development an adequate concept for the 21st century? Flashcards
What are two perspectives from 2001 that mention sustainable development and how it needs to be conceived?
Carter 2001 and Adams 2001 - sustainable development is a process not an endpoint
What are the four examples that will be used?
1) Ecosystem services
2) Sustainable development goals
3) Resilliance and vulnerbailtiy
4) De-growth
What is sustainable development different from?
Asking if development can ever be sustainable
What is the key argument
Sustainable d is a homogeneous phrase obscuring a diverse range of practice. largely, however, it is oxymoronic, however more radical solution such as degrowth do pose a genuinely positive challenge to the development framework.
What is the promise of Ecosystem services?
They simultaneously deliver for the planet, and deliver for development since they are paying people to look after something that they do anyway. This false promise is characteristic of wider ESS.
Define PESS
Payments made to the landowners by those who benefit from the ESS in question
What is the piece of empirical research backing up the claims of PESS/
Jaychandra et al 2016 7-10% forest loss in the control area, only 2-5% on ESS forest
Who argues that PESS are particularly problematic as they fail on both a development and an environmental front?
McAfee 2012
What else do McAfee argue?
That markets , on a local level, cannot be both efficient and equitable.
What does Adams say and when about ecosystems?
2014 no society can be independent of the ecosystems that frame and ultimately support its existence. This would risk projecting new inequalities onto new canvasses.
give an example of a community success of PESS
Quito water fund Tallis et al 2008
What did the Quito water fund succeed>
it was community led
What is the big problem with PESS?
does not fundamentally alter the problematic north/south relationship, indeed could make it even more problematic as it encourages those in the north to carry on emitting by simply displacing the problem elsewhere.
What kind of nexus does PESS fail to acknowledge?
The nexus between development and climate change, and how the latter can work against the goals of the former, and the former can contribute to the latter. O’Brein and Leichenko look at this relationship.
What is the next paragraph?
Resilience and vulnerability
What is the argument here>?
Certainly vulnerability can be a diagnostic of capitalism, but it does not challenge the core of it
What is the reference for the ability of vulnerability to diagnose the problems inherent within capitalism?
Adger 2006
What can the metric of vulnerability do?
Obscure
What is it important to stress that resilience is not?
In and of itself a bad thing
Who are the two case studies for Atoll countries?
Barnett and Adger 2003
Donner and Webber 2014
What does Donner and Webber 2014 argue
that the atoll islands are vulnerable both social and ecologically
What is the next paragraph, another thing that does not address the core of capitalism?
SDGs
What are SDGs better than and according to whom?
The MDGs Sachs 2017
Why does Sachs say that the SDGs are better than the MDGs?
Because they are more realistic and more focused on survival
