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GREENING THE ECONOMY: A COLOURING ORA RESEEDING..............................................................................2
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME...................................................5
ABSTRACTS.................................................................................8 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS...........................................................26
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GREENING THE ECONOMY: A COLOURING OR A RESEEDING
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Despite the first attempts in the early 90-ies to conceptualize policies for a green economy, a new socio-economic concept that tackles environmental and existential problems of unprecedented scale, green economy had not become a prominent topic of political and academic debates until the most recent global crisis. Expansion of credit and its consequence in sharp rise in debt-to-GDP ratios, job losses and business failures, agricultural yield stagnation and its consequence in rising fuel and food prices, and increasing evidence of widescale environmental degradation and climate change propelled the green economy concept to the global political agenda. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) green economy should result in “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities”. Whilst this notional goal is acceptable to all social actors tacking the aforementioned issues, interpretation of the structures engendering those problems, and perspectives on paths leading to the said goal differ. Most notably in degrowth, one of the fastest rising social movements, thinkers and activists advocate a green, caring and communal economy with the goal of securing a good life, but are sceptical of high-tech projects of ecological modernization and green growth which are often present in various definitions and perspectives on green economy.
Yet from a global and millennial perspective, to avoid a whole-scale collapse of the civilisation-supporting ecosystems within this century we need to change the social metabolism, as well as expectations, aspi-rations, behaviours and attitudes of the majority of the global popula-tion. The required social change could unfold through revolutionary or evolutionary social dynamic, but should hold on to widening and deepening democratization upheld by the existence and formation of specific personal and social orientations. The role of science in gen-eral, and social science in specific, is to shed a light on the future scenarios and to provide us with knowledge required to envisage and realize the social metabolic change.
Some of the questions which we would like to examine at the confer-ence are:
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• Does the current economy provide sufficient wellbeing for most?
• How much of the environment can we humans appropriate? Where are the limits?
• What does greening the economy mean for us in everyday life?
• Is economy without global growth feasible? • Why are people engaged in different economic practices?
What is their motivation?• What values are required in changing the economy and soci-
ety to avoid widescale collapse?• Is it hard to change personal behaviour to help planetary
environmental stability? And what behaviours should we change?
Dates of the conference: 23.-24. of September, 2016.Where: Chilloutka, Ilica 15, Zagreb, Croatia (http://www.chill-outka.net/)
Organizers: Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Centre for Re-search in Social Inequalities and Sustainability (CRiSIS) (www.idi.hr)
The conference is being organized within the project New Paradigms in Sustainability Research: Green Economy and the Well-being of Youth which is being co-funded by the European Union through European Social Fund (http://www.idi.hr/en/projekti-p/projekti/nove-paradig-me-u-istrazivanju-odrzivosti-zelene-ekonomije-i-dobrobit-mladih/).
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ABSTRACTS
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Branko Ančić
Institute for Social Research in Zagreb – Centre for Research in Social Inequalities and Sustainability
[email protected] GREENING THE ECONOMY: COLOURING OR A RESEEDING
From the beginning of the ´90-ies and first attempts to conceptual-ize green economy as a new socio-economic concept which tackles environmental and economic problems of unprecedented scale, green economy was not brought to a table of political and academic debates until recent global crisis occurred. Expansion of credits and its con-sequence in sharp rise in debt-to-GDP ratios, job losses and business failures, food crises and its consequence in rising fuel and food prices and increasing evidence in environmental degradation and climate change helped the green economy concept to find its new position on global political agenda. Based on the United Nations Environment Programme definition green economy should result in “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities” (UNEP, 2011, p 16). This goal is acceptable to all social actors involved in trying to resolve above mentioned issues but interpretation of the causes which led to those problems and perspectives on paths towards the end result differ. Within the scientific discourse two approaches concerning the potential of green economy as a way of tackling the aforementioned crisis could be roughly sketched. On the one hand, approaches such as some versions of sustainable development, ecological moderniza-tion and restorative growth do not offer radical criticism of capitalist system but are instead searching for different kinds of growth, greener ones. Degrowth perspective, on the other hand is more critical and openly radicalizes the critique of capitalism. Through re-politicizing the issues degrowth approach criticises the idea of ecological mod-ernization and sustainable development in a way that the essence of the future solutions should not be searched within the idea of better and greener growth, but rather in envisaging alternative solutions and
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practices which should replace modernistic development based on the premise of growth. Degrowth thinkers and activists advocate a green, caring and communal economy with the goal of securing a good life, while criticizing the ideas and practices of high-tech projects of eco-logical modernization and green growth which are often present in various definitions and perspectives on green economy. Aim of this presentation is to present current debates and social expectations con-cerning green economy.
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Igor Matutinović
GfK – Center for Market ResearchUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Zagreb, Croatia
CAPITALISM, GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY
Capitalist development has been inexorably tied to material growth and the debate whether we can have a non-growing capitalist system has been going on for more than two decades. Although modern eco-nomic growth reduced poverty and raised the standard of living to unprecedented levels in the Western world, it has also caused deple-tion of natural resources and energy at the global scale, and the hu-manity transgressed or approached the boundaries of several critical earth-system processes. If we consider capitalism as an autocatalytic system then it is natural that it will cease to grow at some point, and as some argued, there are no systemic reasons as why it would not per-sist in the steady state. Recent empirical findings suggest that a group of advanced capitalist countries may have terminated their historic phase of intensive economic growth and entered the mature stage. However, to deal politically with a non-growing economy, capitalist or not, we will need a paradigm shift – a radical change in our world-view that would drive requisite changes in institutions, technologies, and individual behaviours. Empirical results in the EU and globally suggest that we are still far from aligning our values, consumption habits, and lifestyles with the ideal of sustainability.
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Rogulj, Ivana
Društvo za oblikovanje održivog razvoja – DOOR, Zagreb Croatia
Božičević Vrhovčak, Maja
Društvo za oblikovanje održivog razvoja – DOOR, Zagreb Croatia
CO2 EMISSIONS IN CROATIA IN 2050: WHAT IS THE PATHWAY TO A LOW-CARBON FUTURE?
The research deals with carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector in the Republic of Croatia on a long term, by 2050. Based on the projections of energy supply and demand of all consumption sec-tors and corresponding CO2 emissions, an interactive platform was developed that clearly connects consequences of certain decisions and choices and the total greenhouse gas emissions. The developed tool allows for simple comparisons of different development options in terms of CO2 emissions and is an important tool for understanding the complexity of the transition to a low carbon society. The data were collected extensively through desktop research, structured workshops with experts in energy supply and demand sectors, and interviews. Developed model is compared with National Low Carbon Develop-ment Strategy. Financial, legal, behavioural and technical mechanisms are included in the model, to show the complexity and multisector approach to development of low carbon society.
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Petr Jehlička
Department of Geography, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UKDepartment of Environmental Studies, Masaryk University, Brno
THE PLEASURE OF GROWING AND SHARING: INFORMAL FOOD ECONOMIES, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND UNEQUAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Home food production and sharing in the West are typically framed as innovative, modern and progressive practices. In contrast, similar practices in East European contexts remain to be viewed as a path-dependent economic strategy of disadvantaged segments of society, set to disappear with the development of the market economy. This context-dependent conceptualisation highlights the unequal knowl-edge production and contentions arising from the endeavour to use insights from the post-socialist European ‘periphery’ to unsettle the hegemony of concepts generated in Western contexts. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, drawing on insights from Southern and cos-mopolitan theory (Connell 2007; Robinson 2013), the paper raises the question of whether there is a possibility for the western ‘core‘ and the increasingly affluent societies of the global South to learn from vast and socially embedded sharing economies in the ‘post-socialist periphery‘. Second, departing from the conceptualisation of Central and East European informal food practices as ‘quiet sustainability’ (Smith and Jehlička 2013) - as exuberant, appealing and socially di-verse forms of sustainability which nurtures cooperation and sense of accomplishment - the paper questions assumptions about the rela-tionship between class formation, sustainability and patterns of con-sumption. It asks whether it needs it to be assumed that periods of rapid economic development, and the related expansion of middle classes in emerging economies necessarily result in the abandonment of the non-market sharing economies. Research findings suggest that it may not be the case. All social classes and age groups in Czechia and Poland participate in the sharing economy as they grow and exchange food. Significantly, the increasingly affluent Central and East Euro-
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pean middle classes continue to grow food and, despite their greater disposable income, do not resort to the use of industrially made fertil-isers in significantly greater numbers than the working classes. These practices are significant in terms of environmental sustainability – most growers generate little carbon dioxide emissions as their gardens are next to their houses. Furthermore, nearly half of the Czech and Polish food growers effectively produce non-certified organic food (in that they use neither industrially made pesticides nor fertilisers). While the percentage of Polish food growers sharing their produce is slightly lower than the percentage of Czech growers to do so, there is virtually no difference in either country in the behaviour of the two classes. Growing and sharing food appears to be beneficial both for social well-being as health as people involved in these practices tend to have more friends and consume more vegetables than non-growers.
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Anita Bušljeta Tonković
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar – Regional centre Gospić
Jelena Puđak
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
Dražen Šimleša
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SHAPING SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE STUDY OF CROATIAN MOUNTAIN RURAL AREA LIKA
Main purpose of the presentation is to explore social entrepreneur-ship as sustainable rural development supporting model that could bring development dimensions of Lika region in balance. Article con-sists of two thematic parts: in first part results of desk research are presented to describe social entrepreneurship scene in Croatia; and in second part we present results of qualitative research in two seg-ments. First segment of the qualitative research are semi-structured interviews with local social actors involved in Likas current socio-eco-nomic development (2013). Main topic of the research was the eco-nomic dimension of sustainable development. Second segment of the research was focus group with social entrepreneurship practitioners in Lika (2015) – civil society association. Main topic was state and development of social entrepreneurship. Research results are show-ing social actor’s awareness of opportunities for sustainable develop-ment in Lika (e.g. preserved natural resources) and also awareness of alternative and/or complementary economic models that could lead
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to enhanced quality of life. Key social actors (research participants) see social entrepreneurship as opportunity to develop alternative/complementary economic model in Lika, e.g. “to incorporate ideas of people in the economy and to adapt economy to people”. Additional “push” factor for development of social entrepreneurship is connected to the third sector actors (Association Prospero) as they are working on new project – eco-social farms and grouping of farms based on the inventiveness, communality and social capital. This could also lead to the possibility of neo-endogenous development, especially because Lika region still does not have development strategy.
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Jelena Puđak
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
VALUES OF GREEN ENTREPRENEUERS IN CROATIA – BETWEEN GROWTH AND DEGROWTH Transition to a more sustainable development involves a dramatical reduction of the use of existing fossil-fuel energy, increase in the ef-ficiency of those it cannot avoid and utilisation and replacement with renewable energy sources wherever possible. This kind of tehnological change is associated with a much more radical social transformation, or to put it more simple: to be prepared to do with less in terms of energy and material products. Every social change depends on the ex-istence and formation of specific value orientations. For restructuring social relations in order to make a shift towards degrowth orientation certain inter-dependent principles, as Latouche argues, are required. His “Rs” of degrowth include eight inter-dependent principles. Re-evaluate what matters. Reconceptualize key notions such as wealth, poverty, value, scarcity and abundance. Restructure the productive apparatus and social relations to fit these new values. Redistribute wealth and access to natural resources between North and South and between classes, generations and individuals. Relocalize which means producing on local level thus descending all economic, political and cultural decisions at that level. Reduce production and consumption, especially for goods and services with little use value but high environ-mental impact. Re-use products and Recycle waste. The aim of this paper is to explorde, using qualitative methodology, value orientation and motivation of green economy actors in Croatia, to what extent do they meet the aforementioned degrowth principles, what are the main reasons that drive ‘green’ entrepreneurship and weather there is a common denominator for different actors in green economy.
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Ana-Maria Boromisa
Institute for Development and International Relations
HOW DO GREEN POLICIES MIX THE COLOURS OF ECONOMY: GREEN, BLUE, GREY, ROSY?
Development strategies and action plans generally look at the future through rose glasses: GDP will grow, grow will be sustainable, envi-ronment will be protected; high social standards will be applied, equal opportunities will be provided for disabled, children, women, elderly. In Croatia (and the EU) most of this is supposed to be achieved by 2020. Moving towards a green economy must become strategic eco-nomic policy agenda for achieving sustainable development (UNEP, 2011). The concept of green development is seen as a logical step for greening the economy through green growth based on green jobs. However, there is still a vivid debate regarding whether green jobs are drivers of or obstacles to economic growth and whether they are too expensive to create. This contribution first deals with concepts: green jobs, green economy, green growth, green policy and sustain-able development. This serves as a basis to answering the question as whether the investment to create green jobs is wise or whether it will just create “elite” jobs that are expensive- and may be difficult to afford at both national and employer level. This is followed by over-view of Croatian development strategies. Policies and measures are designed to achieve goals related to green jobs, green growth, green economy and sustainable development are identified, as well as ways to transform some regular policies into green ones. Based on above, their potential for greening the economy is outlined.
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Slavica Robić
Društvo za oblikovanje održivog razvoja – DOOR, Zagreb Croatia
ENERGY-WATER-FOOD HOUSEHOLD NEXUS – GREENING THE ECONOMY FOR SOLVING (ENERGY) POVERTY
Liberalization of energy market coupled with inefficient housing stock and household appliances leaves many in energy poverty. While energy poverty is now recognised as one of top issues worldwide, there have been only limited efforts to eradicate it. Energy poverty is often bounced from one institution to other, as it encompasses wide range of elements being both social and energy issue. Those who are living in energy poverty are not only suffering from the inability to afford adequate energy services, but they are also often forced to choose between food and energy, food being one of the most flexible household expenses. At the same time energy poor typically use wa-ter inefficiently thus further contributing to increase of energy costs and adversely impacting their ability to afford decent meals. Most of the policies in place focus on easing the consequences while very few measures focus on eliminating the causes of energy poverty. In Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) no policies have been designed which would help alleviating energy poverty other than financial sup-port for paying the energy bills. While financial support may offer valuable help to those who are unable to meet their basic energy needs as result of low income, it does not provide solution to high levels of indoor humidity, mould, cold in the winters or heat in summer. In-vesting in energy efficiency is a proven tool for greening the economy as it creates local jobs, and from simple low-cost measures through replacement of old household appliances to full energy retrofitting of the buildings, it offers a cost-effective solution to eliminating main causes of energy poverty.
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Antonio Jovanovski
NGO Go Green
THE ROLE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is happening. It is real. It poses on of the most serious threats to the existence of human race on Planet Earth. The scientists agreed and the politicians affirmed it in the “Paris agreement” - we should keep the concentration of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions below 1,5 degrees Celsius! Each country has its own ambitions to reduce the GHG emissions and the achievement of that ambition will influence the “development” direction of the societies. Cutting carbon emissions from economic growth in all sectors will cause dis-ruptions in established industries and threaten existing jobs. On the other hand, it will create new jobs in both existing and new sectors of society. And more than 5 million young people in the EU aged 15-24 are unemployed. There is a gap of more than 40% between the Member States with the lowest rate of youth unemployment and the highest i.e. Germany 7,4% and Spain (51.4%), Greece (50.6%) and Croatia (44.8%) youth unemployment rates. A different mindset, knowledge and education are needed to fill the gap and accelerate the transition to sustainable and climate resilient societies. What is the role of young people? What are their opportunities for employment? How does the “green labor market” look like and how should the education system adapt? What are the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the changing environment? These are some of the ques-tions we will discuss on this lecture.
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Mladen Domazet
Institute for Political Ecology
REAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE – WHO MIGHT BE YOUR FRIENDS IN 2047?
We’ll review scientific, technological and social issues related to cli-mate change in the text 30 years. By connecting more and less famil-iar concepts we’ll try to open new perspectives on the projections of the state of the biophysical manifold of civilisation over the afore-mentioned period and the possible social and individual responses. Those who claim to be committed to creating such a response are known as environmentalists. In social research, much effort is spent in search for these environmentalists, and for trying to understand why these are found in Western Europe whilst not the European East. We survey the conceptual construal of environmentalism associated with the emerging “degrowth” movement. Under such conception of environmentalism developed a review is undertaken of an emerging body of research which challenges the role of affluence for European environmentalism. We show that affluence holds the key to some forms of environmentalism, while not to others. A pan-European en-vironmentalist is not a ‘green consumer’, but an egalitarian willing to challenge a social system based on infinite economic growth. If ‘challenge’ is what semiperipheral Europeans are willing to take on these day.
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Dimitrios Xenias
School of Psychology, Cardiff UniversityTyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
GREENING THE ECONOMY – AN INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY?
In recent years there has been an international surge in interest to-wards behaviour change: governments, organisations and the civic society show increased fascination by the promising power of indi-vidual change, as a response to global issues such as climate change. The logic is simple: we are responsible for environmental issues since we are all consumers; if we change our behaviour, we will reduce our environmental impact. However, behaviour change is a multi-layered and nuanced matter, and it takes more than a simple campaign for results to materialise. Moreover, even in successful behaviour change programmes, results are usually limited, and focused on one particu-lar behaviour. The role of social and economic context, as well as that of individual values and constraints are also very important and will be examined in the talk. Specific examples from the UK in the fields of energy and transport will be presented; as well as the potential of ‘nudge’ type approaches, and that of behavioural spill-over. The main narrative of this talk is that behaviour change maximises the outcomes and benefits of contextual change; that both individual (bottom-up) and contextual (top-down) changes are required for a greener society; and that early and long-standing, consistent policies are paramount in instigating sustainable change.
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Marija Brajdić Vuković
University of Zagreb
CONSEQUENCES OF CULTURE OF DISENGAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING; CHANCES FOR POST-NORMAL SCIENCE PARADIGM TO STEP IN?
This presentation will deal with the role of science and scientists in climate change debate from an angle not typically covered in exist-ing literature on climate change. It will do so through analysis of attitudes and values of younger scientists concerning climate change and in the context their preferences of communication of scientific results with different public stakeholders, and their more transcen-dental, so-called ‘cosmological’ (Beckman, 1997) worldviews related to exploitation of nature. The results direct us towards one question: what does it mean in a practical sense if academic engineering sci-entists are the least concerned regarding climate change, compared to other scientists and (as some trends show) even compared to the general public? The results of this research shed light on the fact that scientists, both as individuals and as a group with a vital function in society, are under the influence of and share the cultural norms and values of society as a whole, and in particular those of the disciplinary background, culture and community they belong to. The problem that needs to be tackled seems to be changing of values of techni-cal and biotechnical sciences by gradually making their culture more socially engaged. Intention of presented analyses will be to highlight climate change as a key problem in creating sustainable knowledge-based societies, whose development should be founded on sustainable uses of science and technology and on the promotion cohesion and equality within society.
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Marija Vukšić
Lana Peternel
Institute for Social Research in Zagreb – Centre for Research in Social Inequalities and Sustainability
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF A CULTURAL MODEL OF SUSTAINABILITY IN CROATIA
Sustainability is contested, culturally bounded phenomenon that varies among societies implying inner cultural values and concepts of equity, improvement and well-being. By following the anthro-pological theoretical account and multi-methodological approach, we describe and analyse sustainability as a cultural model that reveals indi-vidual and group experience, knowledge and notions of development which arose in a changing social, political and economic circumstances in Croatia. Based on the cognitive anthropological approach we designed analytic methodology that includes both qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The data obtained in two fieldwork phases using semi-structured interviews, free-listing and cultural consensus questionary are aimed to examine and describe specific subdomains of everyday life that construct cultural model of sustainability. The results of quantitative data analysis confirmed that cultural model of sustain-ability consists of four main subdomains that represent individual and collective concepts of responsibility. Domains that explain cultural model of sustainability on the group level are “government’s role” and “social relationships”, while subdomain of “personal life-style orientations” and “sustainable values” illuminate the cultural model on individual level. The analysis of qualitative data shows that sustain-able ideas and concepts echo specific life trajectories of the people that were faced with consequences of economic crises and life challenges. Despite the fact that sustainability is not fixed and bright cultural con-cept, in this study actors engaged in green economy claimed negative attitudes towards concepts of profit and growth, and positive attitudes towards development of innovative education as predictors of and conditions for sustainable and future orientated societies.
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Nikola Petrović
Institute for Social Research in Zagreb
GREEN ECONOMICS: TWO SUB-DISCIPLINES OR TWO IDEOLOGIES?
Environmental economics and ecological economics are two eco-nomic sub-disciplines with the same basic goal of introducing prob-lems of environmental degradation in the analysis of economic sys-tems. However, they are often at odds with each other as different ideological backgrounds and scientific cultures of their protagonists prompted them to analyse relations between economy and environ-ment through different perspectives and with different scientific con-clusions and policy recommendations. It is argued here that environ-mental economics and ecological economics both became established economic sub-disciplines as the result of the growth and the success of environmental movement, although they were influenced by dif-ferent strands of this movement.
Green economics is used here as the term that encompasses these two sub-disciplines, in the same vein as the term green ideology can encompass both environmentalism and ecologism, although there are considerable differences between them. David Bloor’s strong programme of sociology of knowledge is followed here in order to analyse how new ideas that form the basis of two strands of green economics emerged. Ideological backgrounds and scientific practices of the most influential authors of both strands of green economics are analysed here. It is also analysed how both strands of green economics contributed to the emergence of green economy.
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