26 research outputs found
Human wellâbeing and climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation research is fundamentally motivated by the preservation of human lives and the environmental conditions which enable them. However, the field has to date rather superficial in its appreciation of theoretical claims in wellâbeing thought, with deep implications for the framing of mitigation priorities, policies, and research. Major strands of wellâbeing thought are hedonic wellâbeingâtypically referred to as happiness or subjective wellâbeingâand eudaimonic wellâbeing, which includes theories of human needs, capabilities, and multidimensional poverty. Aspects of each can be found in political and procedural accounts such as the Sustainable Development Goals. Situating these concepts within the challenges of addressing climate change, the choice of approach is highly consequential for: (1) understanding interâ and intraâgenerational equity; (2) defining appropriate mitigation strategies; and (3) conceptualizing the socioâtechnical provisioning systems that convert biophysical resources into wellâbeing outcomes. Eudaimonic approaches emphasize the importance of consumption thresholds, beyond which dimensions of wellâbeing become satiated. Related strands of wellâbeing and mitigation research suggest constraining consumption to within minimum and maximum consumption levels, inviting normative discussions on the social benefits, climate impacts, and political challenges associated with a given form of provisioning. The question of how current socioâtechnical provisioning systems can be shifted towards lowâcarbon, wellâbeing enhancing forms constitutes a new frontier in mitigation research, involving not just technological change and economic incentives, but wideâranging social, institutional, and cultural shifts
When evidence isnât enough: Ideological, institutional, and interest-based constraints on achieving trade and health policy coherence
A Critical View of the Institutional Solution in Economics
Reasoning, Causality, Institutional economics, Methodology, Eastern Europe, B15, B52, P48, P51,