From efficiency to resilience : systemic change towards sustainability after the COVID-19 pandemic |
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Author: | Halme, M.1; Furman, E.2; Apajalahti, E.-L.3; |
Organizations: |
1Aalto University School of Business 2Environmental Policy Center at the Finnish Environment Institute 3Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Sciences, HELSUS, in the University of Helsinki
4Public Health at the University of Oulu
5Finnish Meteorological Institute 6Environmental Economics and Management at LUT University, Lahti, Finland 7Finnish Environment Institute, Environmental Policy Center 8University of Helsinki, Finland 9Applied Ecology at the University of Jyväskylä 10Social Pedagogy and Sustainable Well- Being at the University of Eastern Finland, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies 11University of Helsinki 12Finnish National Defence University 13University of Eastern Finland 14Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) 15Futures Studies at Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku (UTU) 16Cultural Heritage Studies (UTU) 17Geoinformatics at the University of Helsinki 18LandClimate research programme in the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 2.1 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe202301306398 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Open book publishers,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2023-01-30 |
Description: |
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of current socio-economic systems and thrown into question the dominant global paradigm geared towards short-term financial efficiency. Although it has been acknowledged for several decades that this paradigm has detrimental impacts on the climate, the environment and global welfare, the pandemic has now offered a grim ‘rehearsal round’ for more serious crises that are to come with the accelerating climate emergency, loss of biodiversity and growing human inequalities. Along with worsening climate change, there are looming risks for mass migrations and armed conflicts as habitats capable of supporting human wellbeing become scarce, such as through the loss of potable water, an increasing lack of suitable land for agriculture, or the rise of unliveable temperatures. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has temporarily decreased some of the climate impacts, e.g. in the energy and transportation sectors, it has at the same time accelerated several global welfare problems. In this chapter, we claim that the way out of the crisis scenario is to replace the dominant efficiency paradigm with a resilience paradigm. Against the backbone of the key societal systems outlined in the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR 2019), we show how the pursuit of narrowly-defined efficiency hampers present and future sustainability, and chart some key actions on the path to transforming these systems towards resilience. see all
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ISBN: | 978-1-80064-262-1 |
ISBN Print: | 978-1-80064-260-7 |
Pages: | 13 - 24 |
DOI: | 10.11647/OBP.0265.02 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.11647/OBP.0265.02 |
Host publication: |
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis |
Host publication editor: |
Böhm, Steffen Sullivan, Sian |
Type of Publication: |
A3 Book chapter |
Field of Science: |
3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health |
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Copyright information: |
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