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Global Resources and Resource Justice – Lost in Frameworks and the Way Forward
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: Received: 13 March 2024 / Approved: 13 March 2024 / Online: 14 March 2024 (10:51:28 CET)
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Negrutiu, I. Global Resources and Resource Justice—Reframing the Socioecological Science-to-Policy Landscape. Resources 2024, 13, 130. Negrutiu, I. Global Resources and Resource Justice—Reframing the Socioecological Science-to-Policy Landscape. Resources 2024, 13, 130.
Abstract
The lexical analysis of seminal policy-to-diplomacy documents from the socio-environmental discourse of the last fifty year agendas allowed examining the evolution of five themes: resources/waste, pollution, social and economic development, justice, and health. Contextual affinities were strongest between resources, pollution, and health and are linked to societal trends and pressures. On those grounds, the central role of resource stewardship according to nature’s physical limits is highlighted, and dedicated concepts, analytical frameworks, and methodologies with different degrees of sustainability are analyzed. To reframe the identified social and economic problems, the work proposes criteria and choices that (1) allow to compare the dynamics of socioecological states across the planet, (2) help matching the pace of socioecological change by addressing path dependencies through participation and engagement of communities, and (3) enable stakeholders to make trade-offs and take decisions in specific social, economic, political, and cultural contexts. The prioritization of resource justice and responsibility becomes a societal project : from Wellfare State to commonfare communities.
Keywords
Access and (re)allocarion; Data systems; Carrying capacity; Earth4All; Ecological civilization; One Health; Planetary Boundaries; Planetary Health; Quality of Life; Societal Boundaries; Socioecological agendas.
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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