Sustainability
Social and Ecological Dimensions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9256883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | SabineU O'Hara (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 529-551 |
| Publication date | 1995-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00346769500000017 |
| OpenAlex | W2161599917 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 33 |
The recent focus on sustainability as guiding principle for economic activity has generated many (often conflicting) definitions of sustainable economic development. Yet while the terminology may be new, the discussion is not. It parallels the discussion about biases of economic valuation concepts that have led to the neglect of the domestic and subsistence contributions relegated to the "informal" or household sector. This paper argues that the narrow definition of economic theory, methodology, and valuation concepts has led to the detrimental neglect of sustaining functions without which economic activity is impaired. To move toward sustainability it is imperative to regain a broader understanding of economics. Three principles are identified as essential for this conceptual expansion of economics. They are: concreteness rather than abstraction, connectedness rather than isolation, and diversity rather than homogeneity. All three are informed by feminist theory. Thus it is argued that the voices of women who have gone largely unheard in economics are essential to reconceptualizing economics as sustainable
Applied economics · Concreteness · Ecological economics · Economics · Human development theory · Mainstream economics · Neglect · Neoclassical economics · Parallels · Positive economics · Public economics · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Terminology · Valuation (finance) · Ecology · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Psychology · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Reporting Systems for Sustainability
Éthique environnementale, remédiation écologique et compensations territoriales
Caring for nature matters
Introduction
Theoretical foundations of sustainable economic welfare indicators — Isew and political economy of the disembedded system
Sustainable development and social welfare
Solutions to the crisis? The Green New Deal, Degrowth, and the Solidarity Economy
Global Food Markets and Their Local Alternatives
Care labor, intergenerational equity, and (social) sustainability
Essays in positive economics
Staying alive
Endangered Species and Uncertainty
Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation
The science question in feminism
Is structural adjustment with a human face possible? The case of Mexico
Feminist Epistemologies
The Economic Emergence of Women
The Death of Nature
Beyond Economic Man
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior
The Limits of Rationality
Economics of environmental conservation
Capital theory and the measurement of sustainable development
The environment as a luxury good or “too poor to be green”
Global equity and environmental crisis
The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Why are there so many of us? Description and diagnosis of a planetary ecopathological process
The Catholic ethic and the spirit of capitalism
Beyond Economic Man. A New Foundation for Microeconomics
A Solidarist Social Economy
In a different voice
Economics and the Philosophy of Science
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |