Demanding Sustainability
Pillars to (Re-)Build a Shared Prosperity
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John Morrissey
Social Sciences
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A Transformative Social Sustainability (Pillar Four)
Pillar four recognizes that the social dimension is instrumentally important for successful low carbon, sustainability transitions. The social dimension is central to the development of the institutional, comm...
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An Ecological Prosperity (Pillar One)
This chapter presents pillar one, an ecological prosperity, which provides the framework and boundary for all other pillars, establishing an explicitly defined space for an ecological and just prosperity into ...
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A Shared (Cost) Burden (Pillar Three)
Profound distributive injustices underly global patterns of resource use and related carbon emissions. In addition, those with the least responsibility for the climate crisis are projected to be most severely ...
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A Just Resilience (Pillar Five)
Pillar five a just resilience is framed in honest recognition of the hard times to come. If pillar one established the boundaries, pillar five seeks to protect those boundaries. Even if a warming limit of 1.5 ...
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Conclusions
The post-Covid-19 re-build represents a once-in-a generation opportunity to markedly shift development models to more sustainable pathways, to rebalance the domains of sustainability and in the process, to add...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the 5 ‘pillars’ through which to (re-)build a shared sustainable prosperity. The five pillars aim to provide a framework through which policymakers, decision-makers, politicians, commun...
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A Decarbonized Economy (Pillar Two)
This chapter presents pillar two, a decarbonized economy, focused on the immediate urgency of the climate crisis. The well-being and sustainable development trajectories of future generations critically depend...
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Implementing the Pillars: Towards Shared Sustainable Prosperity
This chapter discusses a number of themes that cut across all 5 pillars, including: Integrated responses to the climate crisis are required so that transitions initiatives acknowledge both the global imperativ...
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