The poverty of sustainability: rescuing economics from platitudes

Daniel Bromley

Agricultural Economics, 2005, vol. 32, issue s1, 201-210

Abstract: The idea of sustainability has become confused and incoherent. If sustainability is to regain a plausible pertinence to economic policy it must be understood to encompass two realms: (1) human interaction with nature; and (2) human interaction with others with respect to their interaction with nature. The on‐going redefinition of the purposes of nature requires that institutions—norms, rules‐property regimes—undergo constant evolution so that human action conduces to nondestructive action. Caution in the social realm is the greatest risk to environmental sustainability.

Date: 2005
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