Theories for Sustainable Futures

dc.contributor.authorHolling, C.S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-31T14:56:33Z
dc.date.available2009-07-31T14:56:33Z
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.date.submitted2008-08-06en_US
dc.date.submitted2008-08-06en_US
dc.description.abstractFrom p. 1: "Sustainable development and management of global and regional resources is not an ecological problem, nor an economic one, nor a social one. It is a combination of all three. And yet actions to integrate all three typically have short-changed one or more. "Sustainable designs driven by conservation interests often ignore the needs for an adaptive form of economic development that emphasizes human economic enterprise and institutional flexibility. Those driven by economic and industrial interests often act as if the uncertainty of nature can be replaced with human engineering and management controls, or ignored all together. Those driven by social interests can act as if community development and empowerment of individuals encounter no limits to the imagination and initiative of local groups. Each view captures its prescriptions in code words: regulation and control; get the prices right; empowerment; stakeholder ownership. These are not wrong, just too partial. Investments fail because they are partial. As a consequence, the policies of governments, private foundations, international agencies, and NGOs flop from emphasizing one kind of myopic solution to another. Over the last three decades, such policies have switched from large investment schemes, to narrow conservation ones to (at present) equally narrow community development ones."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalConservation Ecologyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthNovemberen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber2en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/3042
dc.subjectsustainabilityen_US
dc.subjectglobal commonsen_US
dc.subjectresource managementen_US
dc.subjectecological economicsen_US
dc.subjectconservationen_US
dc.subject.sectorGeneral & Multiple Resourcesen_US
dc.submitter.emailefcastle@indiana.eduen_US
dc.titleTheories for Sustainable Futuresen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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