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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

Resourcification : A Non-Essentialist Theory of Resources for Sustainable Development

Författare

  • Hervé Corvellec
  • Johan Hultman
  • Anne Jerneck
  • Johan Ekroos
  • Susanne Arvidsson
  • Niklas Wahlberg
  • Timothy Luke

Summary, in English

Overuse of resources is accelerating today’s negative trends in climate change, ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity loss. The ultimate result is contemporary human societies are reaching or exceeding the limits of planetary boundaries. It is therefore imperative to articulate a new theoretical understanding of resources and the ethical, political and environmental conditions of their use. In this article, we introduce a radical departure from existing paradigms, which treat resources as having fixed essential qualities usually ready-to-exploit by anyone who finds them, to a non-essentialist theory of how resources never exist in this fashion as such. Instead, they come into being as the result of social processes. We label this approach resourcification. This shift offers a new theoretical platform for developing a post-sustainability understanding of the relationships of humans to humans, to other living creatures, and to the physical environment, which is more suited to meet the challenges of working with the sustainable development goals in the Anthropocene.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap
  • Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetskansliet
  • LUCSUS
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Redovisning och finans
  • Systematisk biologi
  • Biologiska museet
  • Biodiversitet

Publiceringsår

2021-12-23

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1249-1256

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Sustainable Development

Volym

29

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Ecology

Nyckelord

  • Anthropocene
  • Genes
  • Labor
  • Resources
  • Waste

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Resourcification - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
  • Service Studies Sustainability

Forskningsgrupp

  • Systematic Biology Group

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0968-0802