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Enough is Enough: Living in the Sufficiency Space
| العنوان: | Enough is Enough: Living in the Sufficiency Space |
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| المؤلفون: | Lund, Jens Friis, Bjørn, Anders, Kromand, Jonas Balsby |
| بيانات النشر: | Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen 2024 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | Meeting basic human needs for all people worldwide without exceeding the Planetary Boundaries is the key challenge for sustainable development. Main drivers that must be addressed are consumption, affluence, and inequality (Rockström et al., 2023) and the ethical principle ‘sufficiency’ is suggested to be imperative. Planetary Boundary-based Life Cycle Assessment is well-suited for this endeavor. However, it currently lacks sharing principles grounded in sufficiency. In this thesis I develop a new sufficiency-based sharing principle at a ‘per capita’ level for Denmark which is applicable to Planetary Boundary-based Life Cycle Assessment. As a first step, I conceptualize a Sufficiency Consumption Space for Denmark by a ‘human needs floor’ and an ‘ecological ceiling’, reflecting Decent Living Standards and the Planetary Boundaries. Based on this framework, I derive a new sufficiency-based sharing principle comprising of two sub parts: 1) The individual share of global Safe Operating Space is that is strictly reserved to satisfying Decent Living Standards per capita in Denmark. 2) The remaining individual Safe Operating Space that is left after satisfying the Decent Living Standards and remaining within the ecological ceiling of the Planetary Boundaries. Notably, this remaining individual Safe Operating Space can be used freely by individuals for any consumption purpose. Next, I conduct a bottom-up Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to investigate the environmental impacts of 625 household consumption goods in Denmark. This analysis illuminates the relation between different consumption goods’ and my newly developed sufficiency sharing principle. Finally, I suggest what consumption goods should be addressed from a sufficiency perspective by combining the LCA results with expenditure elasticities of Danish household consumption. This approach highlights the luxury goods with the highest environmental impact that can most easily be curtailed from a needs-based perspect |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Sufficiency, Life Cycle Assessment, LCA, Planetary Boundaries, absolute sustainability, human needs, consumption space, luxury consumption, sufficiency sharing principle, Planetary Boundary-based LCA, MASTERPROGRAMMETHESIS |
| URL: | SCIENCE speciale SCIENCE Master thesis Afsluttende semester Final semester |
| الاتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content |
| ملاحظة: | 121 pages application/pdf English |
| Other Numbers: | DAV oai:pure.atira.dk:studentproject/97693a59-518a-482d-985f-57afa38176c7 1451110375 |
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