Transforming the economic landscape for global sustainability

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ID4238669
AuthorsReyes‐garcía (0000-0002-2914-8055), Victoria Reyes-García, Ram Pandit (0000-0003-4053-5694), Karina Benessaiah (0000-0001-9959-554X), Arun Agrawal (0000-0001-9851-5771), Lucas A Garibaldi (0000-0003-0725-4049), Lucas Garibaldi, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza (0000-0003-1927-7635), Karen O''Brien, Karen O’brien (0000-0002-2448-0665), Karen O'Brien (0000-0002-2065-5034), Timothée Parrique, Villasante (0000-0001-6296-4479), Sebastian Villasante
Year2025
Volume30
Issue3
Publication date2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConservation Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087
PublisherResilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.5751/es-16262-300302
OpenAlexW4411931047
LanguageEN
Citations received1

The economic system’s interdependent relationship with nature is fraught with contradictions. While over half of global GDP moderately or highly depends on nature and subsidies to sectors driving nature’s decline, e.g., agriculture, fossil fuels, forestry, amount to trillions of dollars annually, funding for biodiversity conservation and restoration remains woefully inadequate. Bridging the biodiversity funding gap is crucial but alone does not ensure ecosystems’ health. Beyond innovative economic instruments and the elimination or reform of harmful subsidies, a selective downscaling of production and consumption has been proposed as a transition strategy to lower the overall ecological footprint of the economic system. Only by aligning economic flows with the biophysical limits of the planet can we envision a future where human well-being coexists with ecological integrity

Business · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Sustainability · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Ecology

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