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The crises-poverty-sustainability nexus in the context of the sustainable development goals and covid-19

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posted on 2023-06-10, 02:14 authored by Andreas AntoniadesAndreas Antoniades, Alexander AntonarakisAlexander Antonarakis, Jonathan Gilman, Isabell Kempf
This chapter offers an introduction to the volume Financial Crises, Poverty and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges in the Context of the SDGs and Covid-19 Recovery. The first part examines the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on socio-environmental sustainability. The pandemic crisis has triggered multiple and interacting social, economic and environmental impacts. Mitigating these impacts post-pandemic will require policy actions intent on transforming our current unsustainable socio-environmental model, i.e. managing to use the Covid-19 crisis as an opportunity to build forward better. The second part of the chapter assesses the Covid-19 support packages and recovery strategies. We find that existing policy actions are falling short from the transformation that is required to bring our planet onto a sustainable socio-environmental path. For instance, we observe social exclusion and leaving behind those most in need, increase in atmospheric emissions, and loss of biodiversity. In this context, we argue for a rethink of the underlying assumptions that have determined the economy-environment interaction in our societies. We advocate the need to move away from the commercialisation of nature and a ‘net-zero’ rationale, towards a ‘do no harm’ and ‘common good’ approach. Our transition to sustainability requires nothing less than a new global eco-social contract. The third part of our chapter presents summaries of the volume’s case-studies that inform the above analysis and demonstrate how the above challenges are manifested in countries and communities across the globe.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Springer

Page range

1-15

Pages

190.0

Book title

Financial crises, poverty and environmental sustainability: challenges in the context of the SDGs and covid-19 recovery

Place of publication

Cham

ISBN

9783030874162

Series

Sustainable development goals series

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  • International Relations Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Sustainability Research Programme Publications

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  • No

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  • Yes

Editors

Andreas Antoniades, Isabell Kempf, Alexander Antonarakis

Legacy Posted Date

2022-01-10

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2022-01-11

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