Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability: Enriching Well-Being in the Wake of the Great-Recession...

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Bret L. Billet

Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability

Enriching Well-Being in the Wake of the Great-Recession

Bret L. Billet

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Lexington Books
22 August 2023

Political science & theory; Central government policies; Financial crises & disasters; Sustainability

The Great Recession provided an opportunity to reconsider how to simultaneously enhance the well-being of individuals, corporations, countries, and the global environment. A half-century of vital environmental data demands examining several questions pertaining to the impact of a recession on sustainable environmental consumption. Does a recession provide an occasion for productive dialogue that might reconcile the ostensible incompatibility of economic and ecological rationales? Does it constitute an artificial “turning point” whereby appropriate incentives may induce productive change? Are post-recession environmental consumption patterns indicative of government encouragement, and corporate willingness, to pursue transformative environmental technologies? Alternatively, are the patterns illustrative of countries transferring their environmental consumption to other countries via international trade?

Bret L. Billet argues that the simultaneous investigation of both the Ecological Modernization theory and the Ecological Unequal Exchange theory strengthens the present quantitative analysis, enhancing understanding of the recession, well-being, sustainable environment nexus. Each ecological theory is rooted in the politicized evolution of traditional theories of economic development. The introduction of an Aristotelean conception of development as well-being, an exceptionally large number of cases, and the analysis of multiple country subsets, results in a more robust inquiry as to the impact of the Great Recession on the global sustainable environment.

By: Bret L. Billet
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 603g
ISBN: 9781498579575
ISBN 10: 1498579574
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 22 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bret L. Billet is Professor of Political Science and Co-coordinator of the International Relations and Environmental Science and Studies Programs at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.