Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in?
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Resumo: | The Covid-19 pandemic has uncovered the foremost struggles of the twenty first century: social-economic inequality, global value chains, national security, and the environmental crisis. None of these seems novel, as many staged fiction dystopias have been predicting and warning mankind about the negative impacts of unsustainable consumption behaviors by displaying scenarios of exponential human population and economy growth. Several scientific tools for assessing sustainability have been developed to cover social, economic, and environmental aspects, however, most of them are simply used either separately or without a solid conceptual model supporting an epistemological construct to allow for deeper and scientific-based discussions on sustainability. This work presents a perspective about possible scenarios of the world's sustainability, based on a straightforward integrated framework for its quantification. The three capitals of sustainability, summarized as environmental sustainability, productivity and happiness are combined, based on the input-state-output model, and further plotted on a 3-axis graph. Eight different combinations of the three capitals show eight potential future worlds. The least desirable scenario, named “Ineffective,” depicts an environmentally unsustainable, unhappy and poor world, whereas “Paradise” is the utopia to be pursued: happy, environmentally sustainable and productive. Societies' decisions on taking action after quantitatively measuring and monitoring sustainability will be determinant in placing the world on a more developed and sustainable path, and the model proposed in this work can be useful in promoting discussions in this direction. |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in?happinesssustainability assessmentsustainable consumptionsustainable worldworld scenariosThe Covid-19 pandemic has uncovered the foremost struggles of the twenty first century: social-economic inequality, global value chains, national security, and the environmental crisis. None of these seems novel, as many staged fiction dystopias have been predicting and warning mankind about the negative impacts of unsustainable consumption behaviors by displaying scenarios of exponential human population and economy growth. Several scientific tools for assessing sustainability have been developed to cover social, economic, and environmental aspects, however, most of them are simply used either separately or without a solid conceptual model supporting an epistemological construct to allow for deeper and scientific-based discussions on sustainability. This work presents a perspective about possible scenarios of the world's sustainability, based on a straightforward integrated framework for its quantification. The three capitals of sustainability, summarized as environmental sustainability, productivity and happiness are combined, based on the input-state-output model, and further plotted on a 3-axis graph. Eight different combinations of the three capitals show eight potential future worlds. The least desirable scenario, named “Ineffective,” depicts an environmentally unsustainable, unhappy and poor world, whereas “Paradise” is the utopia to be pursued: happy, environmentally sustainable and productive. Societies' decisions on taking action after quantitatively measuring and monitoring sustainability will be determinant in placing the world on a more developed and sustainable path, and the model proposed in this work can be useful in promoting discussions in this direction.Post-graduation Program on Production Engineering Paulista UniversityAquaculture Center São Paulo State University (UNESP)Institute of Education Science and Technology of Southern Minas Gerais - IFSULDEMINASInnovation Agency São Paulo State University (UNESP)Aquaculture Center São Paulo State University (UNESP)Innovation Agency São Paulo State University (UNESP)Paulista UniversityUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)and Technology of Southern Minas Gerais - IFSULDEMINASGiannetti, Biagio F.Fonseca, Tamara [UNESP]Almeida, Cecília M. V. B.Oliveira, José Hugo deValenti, Wagner C. [UNESP]Agostinho, Feni2023-07-29T13:20:05Z2023-07-29T13:20:05Z2021-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2021.635761Frontiers in Sustainability, v. 2.2673-4524http://hdl.handle.net/11449/24758810.3389/frsus.2021.6357612-s2.0-85115135449Scopusreponame:Repositório Institucional da UNESPinstname:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)instacron:UNESPengFrontiers in Sustainabilityinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2024-04-09T15:10:26Zoai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/247588Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://repositorio.unesp.br/oai/requestopendoar:29462024-08-05T14:16:59.020346Repositório Institucional da UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)false |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in? |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in? |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in? Giannetti, Biagio F. happiness sustainability assessment sustainable consumption sustainable world world scenarios |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in? |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in? |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in? |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in? |
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Beyond a Sustainable Consumption Behavior: What Post-pandemic World Do We Want to Live in? |
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Giannetti, Biagio F. |
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Giannetti, Biagio F. Fonseca, Tamara [UNESP] Almeida, Cecília M. V. B. Oliveira, José Hugo de Valenti, Wagner C. [UNESP] Agostinho, Feni |
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Fonseca, Tamara [UNESP] Almeida, Cecília M. V. B. Oliveira, José Hugo de Valenti, Wagner C. [UNESP] Agostinho, Feni |
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Paulista University Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and Technology of Southern Minas Gerais - IFSULDEMINAS |
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Giannetti, Biagio F. Fonseca, Tamara [UNESP] Almeida, Cecília M. V. B. Oliveira, José Hugo de Valenti, Wagner C. [UNESP] Agostinho, Feni |
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happiness sustainability assessment sustainable consumption sustainable world world scenarios |
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happiness sustainability assessment sustainable consumption sustainable world world scenarios |
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The Covid-19 pandemic has uncovered the foremost struggles of the twenty first century: social-economic inequality, global value chains, national security, and the environmental crisis. None of these seems novel, as many staged fiction dystopias have been predicting and warning mankind about the negative impacts of unsustainable consumption behaviors by displaying scenarios of exponential human population and economy growth. Several scientific tools for assessing sustainability have been developed to cover social, economic, and environmental aspects, however, most of them are simply used either separately or without a solid conceptual model supporting an epistemological construct to allow for deeper and scientific-based discussions on sustainability. This work presents a perspective about possible scenarios of the world's sustainability, based on a straightforward integrated framework for its quantification. The three capitals of sustainability, summarized as environmental sustainability, productivity and happiness are combined, based on the input-state-output model, and further plotted on a 3-axis graph. Eight different combinations of the three capitals show eight potential future worlds. The least desirable scenario, named “Ineffective,” depicts an environmentally unsustainable, unhappy and poor world, whereas “Paradise” is the utopia to be pursued: happy, environmentally sustainable and productive. Societies' decisions on taking action after quantitatively measuring and monitoring sustainability will be determinant in placing the world on a more developed and sustainable path, and the model proposed in this work can be useful in promoting discussions in this direction. |
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