C Rammelt
Biographic Data
| ID | 33105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Rammelt |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Rammelt |
| SIGNATURE | RAMMELT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3766-2599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth: Identifying measurements that are fit for future
This paper evaluates the incorporation of degrowth criteria into existing beyond GDP measurements and explores how this can guide coherent theorisation and framing from a degrowth perspective. While primarily descriptive in mapping the extent to which existing measurements reflect degrowth criteria, the paper also offers prescriptive insights for future indicator development. GDP, long a benchmark for economic progress, has been consistently crit…
Special Issue: ‘Just’ International Development
The relationship between justice and international development has long been contentious. Activists and scholars persistently challenge what is carried out in the name of development: for whom, by whom, and at whose expense? Their critiques expose how conventional development practices often entrench injustice rather than redress it. This special issue builds on this critical tradition by discussing how justice is being redefined within contempor…
Reconciling the right to develop with leaving fossil fuels underground in the Global South
To address climate change, supply-side action and policy are urgently needed for leaving fossil fuels underground. Low- and Middle-Income Countries hold a pivotal role in such a transition due to their significant fossil fuel reserves and their Right to Development. Against this background, this paper asks: What rationales, based on fossil fuel data and the Right to Development, could underpin Global South countries' engagement in or withdrawal f…
Ecological Unequal Exchange: Winners and Losers in Global Raw Material Trade and Consumption
The Marxist theory of unequal exchange challenges the idea that trade never results in outright losses. As a biophysical process, ecological unequal exchange reveals global disparities in resource flows. Using material flow analysis, alternative indicators, and new country clusters, this study updates earlier research and identifies a new phase of intensified disparities since 2015, with rising net outflows of resources from low-income countries …
Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Synthesis of Economic and Ecological Unequal Exchange
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: Sharing the Ecospace
The literature on planetary and Earth system boundaries calls on humans to live within those boundaries. Sharing such limited ecospace raises questions of justice. Global environmental assessments and scholarship are increasingly paying attention to justice issues, yet inadequately define how to share the limited ecospace. Against this background we ask: how can global environmental assessments’ concerns for justice be enhanced through an Earth s…
Safe and just Earth system boundaries
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked 1–3 , yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently 4,5 . Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales. We propose ESBs for maintain…
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we assessed whether minimum human needs could be met with surface water from within individual river basins alone and, where this is not possible, quantified how much groundwater would be required. Approximately 2.6 billion people live in river basins where groundwater is needed b…
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using a…
Paradoxes of Inclusion: Adverse Effects of Inclusive Interventions in Northern Ethiopia
The involvement of smallholders in various inclusive business models (IBMs) is being widely promoted in Ethiopia. The inclusion, exclusion and distribution effects of IBMs must be better understood, however, in order to make them more impactful. This study, which was carried out in three districts in northern Ethiopia, employed a mixed methods approach. Our results show that inclusion and exclusion are both complex and multidimensional. A focus o…
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
Inclusive is not an adjective, it transforms development: A post-growth interpretation of Inclusive Development
The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda rests on both economic growth and Inclusive Development (ID). However, since growth is entangled with socio-ecological exploitation and appropriation, it conflicts with ID where ‘inclusive’ encompasses social, ecological and relational dimensions, and fundamentally redefines ‘development’. Using Toulmin’s argumentative model, we show that: (a) inclusive green growth does not promote socio-ecological inclusi…
Covid-19, poverty and inclusive development
The COVID-19 epidemic provides yet another reason to prioritize inclusive development. Current response strategies of the global community and countries expose a low level of solidarity with poorer nations and poorer people in all nations. Against this background, this paper addresses the question: What are the development challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic lays bare and what lessons can be learnt for the way recovery processes are designed? U…
The impact of Covid-19 on the eradication of poverty: An incorrect diagnosis
The COVID-19 pandemic is said to have reversed a decade of progress towards poverty alleviation. This opinion piece contends that this diagnosis is incomplete and possibly incorrect. It distracts us from understanding the ways in which the impacts of the pandemic are embedded in a longer trajectory of unjust economic development. Two problems are highlighted: a more reasonable international poverty line shows that extreme poverty is on the rise, …
The commodification of social relationships in agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia
The Spiralling Economy: Connecting Marxian Theory with Ecological Economics
The capitalist mode of production and consumption is caught in a double bind: its expansion destabilises natural systems and fails to curb social inequities, while slowdown destabilises the inner workings of the economic system itself. To better understand what is happening in this phase of instability, this article proposes a System Dynamics representation that combines elements of Georgescu-Roegen's Ecological Economics with Marxian theory. Spe…
The Exclusive Nature of Inclusive Productive Employment in the Rural Areas of Northern Ethiopia
Inclusiveness, with its emphasis on productive employment, has become central in development policy. From this perspective, unwaged-work is condemned for not being sufficiently productive; that is, for failing to lift incomes above a poverty threshold. However, insights from the sociology of work reveal a range of unwaged activities that are potentially highly productive in their contribution to self-reliance. The article explores whether these a…
Tracing the Causal Loops Through Local Perceptions of Rural Road Impacts in Ethiopia
Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
Central to the United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals is the notion of ‘decoupling’: the need to divorce economic growth from its ecological impact. For proponents, decoupling entails increasing the efficiency with which value is derived from natural resources in order to reconcile indefinite economic growth with environmental sustainability. However, even advocates admit that the idea of decoup…
Galtung meets Daly: A framework for addressing inequity in ecological economics
Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
Central to the United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals is the notion of ‘decoupling’: the need to divorce economic growth from its ecological impact. For proponents, decoupling entails increasing the efficiency with which value is derived from natural resources in order to reconcile indefinite economic growth with environmental sustainability. However, even advocates admit that the idea of decoup…
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using a…
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Inclusive is not an adjective, it transforms development: A post-growth interpretation of Inclusive Development
The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda rests on both economic growth and Inclusive Development (ID). However, since growth is entangled with socio-ecological exploitation and appropriation, it conflicts with ID where ‘inclusive’ encompasses social, ecological and relational dimensions, and fundamentally redefines ‘development’. Using Toulmin’s argumentative model, we show that: (a) inclusive green growth does not promote socio-ecological inclusi…
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
Covid-19, poverty and inclusive development
The COVID-19 epidemic provides yet another reason to prioritize inclusive development. Current response strategies of the global community and countries expose a low level of solidarity with poorer nations and poorer people in all nations. Against this background, this paper addresses the question: What are the development challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic lays bare and what lessons can be learnt for the way recovery processes are designed? U…
The commodification of social relationships in agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia
The Exclusive Nature of Inclusive Productive Employment in the Rural Areas of Northern Ethiopia
Inclusiveness, with its emphasis on productive employment, has become central in development policy. From this perspective, unwaged-work is condemned for not being sufficiently productive; that is, for failing to lift incomes above a poverty threshold. However, insights from the sociology of work reveal a range of unwaged activities that are potentially highly productive in their contribution to self-reliance. The article explores whether these a…
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: Sharing the Ecospace
The literature on planetary and Earth system boundaries calls on humans to live within those boundaries. Sharing such limited ecospace raises questions of justice. Global environmental assessments and scholarship are increasingly paying attention to justice issues, yet inadequately define how to share the limited ecospace. Against this background we ask: how can global environmental assessments’ concerns for justice be enhanced through an Earth s…
Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we assessed whether minimum human needs could be met with surface water from within individual river basins alone and, where this is not possible, quantified how much groundwater would be required. Approximately 2.6 billion people live in river basins where groundwater is needed b…
Galtung meets Daly: A framework for addressing inequity in ecological economics
Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
Central to the United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals is the notion of ‘decoupling’: the need to divorce economic growth from its ecological impact. For proponents, decoupling entails increasing the efficiency with which value is derived from natural resources in order to reconcile indefinite economic growth with environmental sustainability. However, even advocates admit that the idea of decoup…
Tracing the Causal Loops Through Local Perceptions of Rural Road Impacts in Ethiopia
The Exclusive Nature of Inclusive Productive Employment in the Rural Areas of Northern Ethiopia
Inclusiveness, with its emphasis on productive employment, has become central in development policy. From this perspective, unwaged-work is condemned for not being sufficiently productive; that is, for failing to lift incomes above a poverty threshold. However, insights from the sociology of work reveal a range of unwaged activities that are potentially highly productive in their contribution to self-reliance. The article explores whether these a…
The Spiralling Economy: Connecting Marxian Theory with Ecological Economics
The capitalist mode of production and consumption is caught in a double bind: its expansion destabilises natural systems and fails to curb social inequities, while slowdown destabilises the inner workings of the economic system itself. To better understand what is happening in this phase of instability, this article proposes a System Dynamics representation that combines elements of Georgescu-Roegen's Ecological Economics with Marxian theory. Spe…
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
Inclusive is not an adjective, it transforms development: A post-growth interpretation of Inclusive Development
The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda rests on both economic growth and Inclusive Development (ID). However, since growth is entangled with socio-ecological exploitation and appropriation, it conflicts with ID where ‘inclusive’ encompasses social, ecological and relational dimensions, and fundamentally redefines ‘development’. Using Toulmin’s argumentative model, we show that: (a) inclusive green growth does not promote socio-ecological inclusi…
Covid-19, poverty and inclusive development
The COVID-19 epidemic provides yet another reason to prioritize inclusive development. Current response strategies of the global community and countries expose a low level of solidarity with poorer nations and poorer people in all nations. Against this background, this paper addresses the question: What are the development challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic lays bare and what lessons can be learnt for the way recovery processes are designed? U…
The impact of Covid-19 on the eradication of poverty: An incorrect diagnosis
The COVID-19 pandemic is said to have reversed a decade of progress towards poverty alleviation. This opinion piece contends that this diagnosis is incomplete and possibly incorrect. It distracts us from understanding the ways in which the impacts of the pandemic are embedded in a longer trajectory of unjust economic development. Two problems are highlighted: a more reasonable international poverty line shows that extreme poverty is on the rise, …
The commodification of social relationships in agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using a…
Paradoxes of Inclusion: Adverse Effects of Inclusive Interventions in Northern Ethiopia
The involvement of smallholders in various inclusive business models (IBMs) is being widely promoted in Ethiopia. The inclusion, exclusion and distribution effects of IBMs must be better understood, however, in order to make them more impactful. This study, which was carried out in three districts in northern Ethiopia, employed a mixed methods approach. Our results show that inclusion and exclusion are both complex and multidimensional. A focus o…
Safe and just Earth system boundaries
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked 1–3 , yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently 4,5 . Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales. We propose ESBs for maintain…
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we assessed whether minimum human needs could be met with surface water from within individual river basins alone and, where this is not possible, quantified how much groundwater would be required. Approximately 2.6 billion people live in river basins where groundwater is needed b…
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: Sharing the Ecospace
The literature on planetary and Earth system boundaries calls on humans to live within those boundaries. Sharing such limited ecospace raises questions of justice. Global environmental assessments and scholarship are increasingly paying attention to justice issues, yet inadequately define how to share the limited ecospace. Against this background we ask: how can global environmental assessments’ concerns for justice be enhanced through an Earth s…
Special Issue: ‘Just’ International Development
The relationship between justice and international development has long been contentious. Activists and scholars persistently challenge what is carried out in the name of development: for whom, by whom, and at whose expense? Their critiques expose how conventional development practices often entrench injustice rather than redress it. This special issue builds on this critical tradition by discussing how justice is being redefined within contempor…
Reconciling the right to develop with leaving fossil fuels underground in the Global South
To address climate change, supply-side action and policy are urgently needed for leaving fossil fuels underground. Low- and Middle-Income Countries hold a pivotal role in such a transition due to their significant fossil fuel reserves and their Right to Development. Against this background, this paper asks: What rationales, based on fossil fuel data and the Right to Development, could underpin Global South countries' engagement in or withdrawal f…
Ecological Unequal Exchange: Winners and Losers in Global Raw Material Trade and Consumption
The Marxist theory of unequal exchange challenges the idea that trade never results in outright losses. As a biophysical process, ecological unequal exchange reveals global disparities in resource flows. Using material flow analysis, alternative indicators, and new country clusters, this study updates earlier research and identifies a new phase of intensified disparities since 2015, with rising net outflows of resources from low-income countries …
Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Synthesis of Economic and Ecological Unequal Exchange
Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth: Identifying measurements that are fit for future
This paper evaluates the incorporation of degrowth criteria into existing beyond GDP measurements and explores how this can guide coherent theorisation and framing from a degrowth perspective. While primarily descriptive in mapping the extent to which existing measurements reflect degrowth criteria, the paper also offers prescriptive insights for future indicator development. GDP, long a benchmark for economic progress, has been consistently crit…
Economics (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Sustainable development (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sustainability (6 works)