Cooperative governance
One Pathway to a Stable-State Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4329749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liam Phelan (0000-0002-9306-3216, University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author), Jeffrey Mcgee (0000-0002-2093-5896, University of Newcastle Australia), Rhyall Gordon (0000-0001-8022-5493, University of Newcastle Australia) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 412-431 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2012.671572 |
| OpenAlex | W2157620657 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 31 |
Exponential increases in material and energy use globally threaten Earth System stability in many ways including through climate change. Yet societies remain committed to economic growth, reflected in the way publicly traded corporations are legally obliged to maximise shareholders’ profits. In contrast, businesses governed cooperatively by members, i.e. democratically and transparently, may be better suited to operating in an ecologically sustainable way, enacting their members’ ethical commitments. Combining a complex adaptive systems approach with community economies theory, we argue that cooperatives offer a significant transformative opportunity to resocialise and repoliticise economies away from the growth imperative. Cooperative governance is consistent enough with currently dominant neoliberal governance (itself closely aligned with economic growth) to gain initial policy traction. Ultimately, we seek an overall shift to a stable-state economy – a global economy whose operation sustains rather than threatens the familiar (to humans and our civilisations) stable state of the Earth System
Business · Corporate governance · Earth system science · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Shareholder · Sociology · Sustainable Growth Rate · Transformative learning · Ecosystem dynamics and resilience · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Ecology
Environmental Sustainability
Transition to a post-carbon society
Media, miners and the injustices of sustainable transition in North-East Estonia
The global economic system and access and allocation in earth system governance
Cooperatives and economic growth in a developing country
Embedding circularity
Degrowth and diverse economies
Rethinking the potential of collaboration for urban climate governance
Managing Without Growth
The Bridge at the Edge of the World
Prosperity without Growth
Climate Capitalism
Earth System Governance
Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions
‘Earth system’ analysis and the second Copernican revolution
Degrowth
Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions
Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems
Geology of mankind
A safe operating space for humanity
The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change
Complexity and Human Health
Zombie economics
Policy responses to rapid climate change
Earth system governance’ as a crosscutting theme of global change research
Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory
The Limits to Growth
Shooting the Rapids
The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |