| Overcoming Contradictions Between Growth and SustainabiUty： Institutional Innovation in the BRICS |
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| 基金项目： | Acknowledgement： The author acknowledges substantive contributions from each of the BRICS panelists at the December 2006 biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics in Delhi, India, including James Blignaut （University of Pretoria, South Africa）, Zhu Dajian （Tongji University, Shanghai, China）, Jyoti Parikh, （Integrated Research and Action for Development, Delhi, India）, Ademar Romeiro （University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil）, Stanislav Shmelev （Open University, UK, and RSEE, Russia）, and Luciana Yogeiro de Almeida （State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil）. A version of the paper was also presented at the 2007 biennial conference of the United States Society for Ecological Economics （USSEE） in New York City. |
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| 摘 要： | The recent accelerated growth rates or efforts to emulate countries that have achieved a rapid pace of economic growth are widely acclaimed as means to uplift millions from poverty. In so doing, however, this rapid economic growth is most likely to coincide with unsustainable levels of consumption, place excessive pressure on life support systems and terrestrial sinks and foreshorten options for the future. Rather than pursuing the ＂Environmental Kuznets Curve＂ （EKC） hypothesis that higher income will bring with it the means to reduce the impacts of greater consumption, ecological economists assert that buying our way out of future scarcity with fast growth is indeed contradictory with sustainability. To better understand these contradictions and explore potential institutional innovations that may enable developing nations to better confront them （in effect, ＂tunneling under＂ the EKC）, this article refers to recent experience in the BRICS countries （Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa）. Beginning with a brief comparative summary of major development and environmental indicators, pressures on resources and society in each of the BRICS are discussed, followed by identification of institutional and policy frameworks each country has evolved to confront the challenges of growth and sustainability. The article closes with general conclusions for further research and information sharing among developing nations.
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| 关 键 词： | 制度创新 经济发展 环境库兹涅茨曲线 环境管理 |
Overcoming Contradictions Between Growth and SustainabiUty： Institutional Innovation in the BRICS |
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| Authors: | Peter H May |
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| Institution: | Graduate Program in Development, Agriculture and Society-CPDA/UFRRJ Av. Presidente Vargas, 417-9th fl. 20071-003 Rio de Janeiro, R J, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | growth, sustainability, BRICS, institutions, innovation, development policy |
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| Keywords: | growth sustainability BRICS institutions innovation development policy |
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