Is sustainable development an adequate concept for the 21st century?

Question 1

What are two perspectives from 2001 that mention sustainable development and how it needs to be conceived?

Answer 1

Carter 2001 and Adams 2001 - sustainable development is a process not an endpoint

Question 2

What are the four examples that will be used?

Answer 2

1) Ecosystem services
2) Sustainable development goals
3) Resilliance and vulnerbailtiy
4) De-growth

Question 3

What is sustainable development different from?

Answer 3

Asking if development can ever be sustainable

Question 4

What is the key argument

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

What is the promise of Ecosystem services?

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Define PESS

Answer 6

Payments made to the landowners by those who benefit from the ESS in question

Question 7

What is the piece of empirical research backing up the claims of PESS/

Answer 7

Jaychandra et al 2016 7-10% forest loss in the control area, only 2-5% on ESS forest

Question 8

Who argues that PESS are particularly problematic as they fail on both a development and an environmental front?

Answer 8

McAfee 2012

Question 9

What else do McAfee argue?

Answer 9

That markets , on a local level, cannot be both efficient and equitable.

Question 10

What does Adams say and when about ecosystems?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

give an example of a community success of PESS

Answer 11

Quito water fund Tallis et al 2008

Question 12

What did the Quito water fund succeed>

Answer 12

it was community led

Question 13

What is the big problem with PESS?

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

What kind of nexus does PESS fail to acknowledge?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

What is the next paragraph?

Answer 15

Resilience and vulnerability

Question 16

What is the argument here>?

Answer 16

Certainly vulnerability can be a diagnostic of capitalism, but it does not challenge the core of it

Question 17

What is the reference for the ability of vulnerability to diagnose the problems inherent within capitalism?

Answer 17

Adger 2006

Question 18

What can the metric of vulnerability do?

Answer 18

Obscure

Question 19

What is it important to stress that resilience is not?

Answer 19

In and of itself a bad thing

Question 20

Who are the two case studies for Atoll countries?

Answer 20

Barnett and Adger 2003

Donner and Webber 2014

Question 21

What does Donner and Webber 2014 argue

Answer 21

that the atoll islands are vulnerable both social and ecologically

Question 22

What is the next paragraph, another thing that does not address the core of capitalism?

Answer 22

SDGs

Question 23

What are SDGs better than and according to whom?

Answer 23

The MDGs Sachs 2017

Question 24

Why does Sachs say that the SDGs are better than the MDGs?

Answer 24

Because they are more realistic and more focused on survival

Question 25

Give an example of a SDG

Answer 25

13: climate action

Question 26

What is the good thing about degrowth

Answer 26

It goes to the heart of the capitalist system producing these problems, as well as to the norms and assumption with which development is imbued.

Question 27

What are the four ideas of de growth?

Answer 27

Economic activity leads to material and environmental transformation

Growth accelerates this transformation

Growth does not work for everyone

Managed de growth is possible

Question 28

What is the argument of Kallis 2014

Answer 28

Since regrowth is inevitable, it may as well be done in a sustainable way.

Question 29

How must degrowth be presented?

Answer 29

As the only way to account for the intersection between poverty and the environment

Question 30

Who argues that sustainable development must be seen as a process rather than an end goal?

Answer 30

Carter 2001, Adams 2001

Question 31

What report when acknowledged that poverty was both a cause and an effect of climate change?

Answer 31

Brundtland Report 1987, although it remained capitalist in its outlook

Question 32

For, who when, what is degrowth doing to growth?

Answer 32

Latouche 2009, decolonising the imaginary of growth

Question 33

Who proposes a close link between resilience and the vulnerability of an ecosystem?

Answer 33

Adger 2006