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Towards a Low Carbon, High Well-being Future
Creating Resilient Rural Communities – Constrained Choices with Infinite Possibilities
Ceiliuradh 28thth October 2009
Chris Pienaarnef (the new economics foundation)
Living better, using less
What do we want?
Economic growth – mixed blessings
Measuring what matters
Towards a low carbon, high well-being future
What future do we want?
Economics as if people and the planet mattered:•Well-being
•Social Justice
•Inter-generational justice*
*Brundtland formulation (UN):
“meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
Understanding well-being
Individual’s subjective experience of their life A ‘dynamic process, emerging … through the
interaction between their circumstances, activities, and psychological resources. Aside from feeling ‘good’, it also incorporates a sense of individual vitality, opportunities to undertake meaningful, engaging activities which confer feelings of competence and autonomy [and] is also about feelings of relatedness to other people’
Psychologicalresources
Functioning welland satisfaction
of needs
Experience of life
e.g. to be autonomous,
competent, and connected to others
e.g. resilience, optimism, self-
esteem,personality
e.g. material conditions,
opportunities, social norms
e.g. happiness, satisfaction, interest, boredom and distress
Enablingconditions
Foresight Mental Capital and Well-Being Project
Understanding well-being
Living better, using less
What do we want?
Economic growth – mixed blessings
Measuring what matters
Towards a low carbon, high well-being future
Impacts of growth on…
Environment Inequality Well-being
Earth in 1959
Earth in 2009
Growth and environment
Economy Environment
Environment
Society
Economy
Neoclassical model of economyEcological economics model
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman… or an economist”
Kenneth Boulding
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
Glo
bal h
ecta
res (m
illio
ns)
Global biocapacity
Global footprint
Gone too far
< 1 planet living
> 1 planet living
Impacts of growth on…
Environment Inequality Well-being
Growing incomes?
50
100
150
200
250
300
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
GDP
median income
weekly income bottom 5%
Growth isn’t working
Worldwide, during the 1990s, for every $100 added to the value of the global economy, only 60 cents found its way to those living below the absolute poverty line of $1 a day.
Growth isn’t Working, 2006
Impacts of growth on…
Environment Inequality Well-being
Scarce gains…
Real GDP per capita and subjective Life Satisfaction in the UK
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
140%
160%
180%
200%
1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001
GDP
Life Satisfaction
Scarce gains…
Among richer countries, little correlation between GDP and well-being. Threshold Hypothesis
Recent studies by the Chief Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank show that economic growth correlates negatively with well-being
Living better, using less
What do we want?
Economic growth – mixed blessings
Measuring what matters
Towards a low carbon, high well-being future
National Accounts of Well-Being
Based on data from European Social Survey, 2006
c. 40,000 respondents in 22 countries
Over 50 questions on well-being
National Accounts of well-being: a structure
Personal well-being
Social well-being
Living better, using less
What do we want?
Economic growth – mixed blessings
Measuring what matters
Towards a low carbon, high well-being future
the fair and equitable distribution of social, environmental and
economic resources between people, countries and generations
Good lives do not have to cost the earth some challenges
Reduce over-consumption
Understand the regions fair share of resources and interdependence between localities
Understand what supports a good life
Actively decide – explicit, consistent policies / behaviour
Civic society, third, public and private sectors working towards a common & just purpose
Framework of outcomes across local, sub-regional, regional and national – social, economic, environmental outcomes
Sustainable Outcomes Framework
1.
Activity
2.
Output
3.
Service level outcomes
-social
-economic
-environmental
- Low carbon
- Well-being
- Social justice
4.
Local Authority Community outcomes
-social
-economic
-environmental
- Low carbon
- Well-being
- Social justice
5.
Regional level outcomes
-social
-economic
-environmental
- Low carbon
- Well-being
- Social justice
Sustainable Community strategy, Local Area Agreement
Commissioner & service user priorities
National Outcome frameworks
Not pre-determined tosupport innovation
Living better, using less, sharing more
Action to support resilience characteristics – supporting action in communities, and at appropriate scale
Ability of a system to absorb shocks
Self-organise : strong social organisations, activism, mutual models, democratic voice
Innovate: understanding of common purpose (economic & environmental literacy), open opportunity to delivery in different ways
Learn: feedback loops, supported to experiment, co-produce
A resilient community?
Resilience can broadly be defined as the ability of a system (social, economic or ecological) to cope with external shocks as they arise. In measuring a system’s resilience, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research refers to indicators that demonstrate the system’s ‘ability to (a) absorb shocks and retain its basic function, (b) self organize (social institutions and networks), and (c) innovate and learn in face of disturbances
A different approach
Invitation to the Local Economy Workshop – How Communities Can Help Each Other to Build Economic Sustainability
Plugging the Leaks Programme; Enterprising Communities Framework Making Spaces Delivery Model
Economic and Environmental Literacy Tools Coaching Approach Networks
You: monthly actions you can take www.onehundredmonths.org/
. http://www.350.org/
Your community: Become involved in the transition town movement, www.transitiontowns.org/
Use the Sustainable Communities Act www.lga.gov.uk
Use the tools and approaches at www.pluggingtheleaks.org
Your business: Balanced scorecard – looking at your triple bottom line outcomes, deciding what you want to do about them.
www.pluggingtheleaks.org
Your Organisation: actively seeking to create positive local economic, social and environmental outcomes from your mainstream spending and core business.
Good Corporate Citizenship http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/
Sustainable procurement www.procurementcupboard.org
Good lives don’t have to cost the earth
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