Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health
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Resumo: | Climate change is a major challenge for sustainable development, impacting human health, wellbeing, security, and livelihoods. While the post-2015 development agenda sets out action on climate change as one of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is little provision on how this can be achieved in tandem with the desired economic progress and the required improvements in health and wellbeing. This paper examines synergies and tensions between the goals addressing climate change and economic progress. We identify reductionist approaches in economics, such as ‘externalities’, reliance on the metric of the Gross Domestic Product, positive discount rates, and short-term profit targets as some of the key sources of tensions between these goals. Such reductionist approaches could be addressed by intersectoral governance mechanisms. Health in All Policies, health-sensitive macro-economic progress indicators, and accounting for long-term and non-monetary values are some of the approaches that could be adapted and used in governance for the SDGs. Policy framing of climate change and similar issues should facilitate development of intersectoral governance approaches. |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Healthclimate change; disaster risk reduction; economic growth; health; health in all policies; sustainable development; sustainable development goalsClimate change is a major challenge for sustainable development, impacting human health, wellbeing, security, and livelihoods. While the post-2015 development agenda sets out action on climate change as one of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is little provision on how this can be achieved in tandem with the desired economic progress and the required improvements in health and wellbeing. This paper examines synergies and tensions between the goals addressing climate change and economic progress. We identify reductionist approaches in economics, such as ‘externalities’, reliance on the metric of the Gross Domestic Product, positive discount rates, and short-term profit targets as some of the key sources of tensions between these goals. Such reductionist approaches could be addressed by intersectoral governance mechanisms. Health in All Policies, health-sensitive macro-economic progress indicators, and accounting for long-term and non-monetary values are some of the approaches that could be adapted and used in governance for the SDGs. Policy framing of climate change and similar issues should facilitate development of intersectoral governance approaches.Cogitatio2016-12-28info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v4i4.729oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/729Politics and Governance; Vol 4, No 4 (2016): Disaster Policies and Governance: Promoting Community Resilience; 87-962183-2463reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/729https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v4i4.729https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/729/729https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/downloadSuppFile/729/857Copyright (c) 2016 Kristine Belesova, Ilan Kelman, Roger Boydhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBelesova, KristineKelman, IlanBoyd, Roger2022-12-22T15:16:55Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/729Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:22:32.574127Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health Belesova, Kristine climate change; disaster risk reduction; economic growth; health; health in all policies; sustainable development; sustainable development goals |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health |
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Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health |
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Belesova, Kristine |
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Belesova, Kristine Kelman, Ilan Boyd, Roger |
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Kelman, Ilan Boyd, Roger |
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Belesova, Kristine Kelman, Ilan Boyd, Roger |
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climate change; disaster risk reduction; economic growth; health; health in all policies; sustainable development; sustainable development goals |
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climate change; disaster risk reduction; economic growth; health; health in all policies; sustainable development; sustainable development goals |
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Climate change is a major challenge for sustainable development, impacting human health, wellbeing, security, and livelihoods. While the post-2015 development agenda sets out action on climate change as one of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is little provision on how this can be achieved in tandem with the desired economic progress and the required improvements in health and wellbeing. This paper examines synergies and tensions between the goals addressing climate change and economic progress. We identify reductionist approaches in economics, such as ‘externalities’, reliance on the metric of the Gross Domestic Product, positive discount rates, and short-term profit targets as some of the key sources of tensions between these goals. Such reductionist approaches could be addressed by intersectoral governance mechanisms. Health in All Policies, health-sensitive macro-economic progress indicators, and accounting for long-term and non-monetary values are some of the approaches that could be adapted and used in governance for the SDGs. Policy framing of climate change and similar issues should facilitate development of intersectoral governance approaches. |
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