Does Environmental Sustainability Contradict Prosperity?

Prosperity and Environmental Quality

Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability

There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be defined and translated into an operational framework for agricultural development. We argue that this paradigm must now be defined-at all scales-in the context of rapidly rising global environmental changes in the Anthr...

Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Diets: How Does Organic Food Consumption Contribute to Environmental Sustainability?

Background Studies investigating diet-related environmental impacts have rarely considered the production method of the foods consumed. The objective of the present study, based on the NutriNet-Santé cohort, was to investigate the relationship between a provegetarian score and diet-related environmental impacts. We also evaluated potential effect modifications on the association between a prove...

Negabehaviors and Environmental Sustainability

Helping people learn to adopt more pro-social lifestyles usually involves persuading them to take new, beneficial actions. However, certain pro-social goals, such as achieving environmental sustainability, also require people to stop performing harmful actions—people are commonly instructed to drive less, use less electricity, and otherwise reduce the amount of resources they consume and waste ...

Inequality and Environmental Sustainability

* The author is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the Development Policy Analysis Division of UN DESA. He would like to thank Gregroy Mikkelson and Danny Dorling for their comments on previous versions the paper. Thanks are also due to the participants of the Expert Group Meeting held in 2014 where this paper was presented. Particular thanks are due to the anonymous referee, whose substantiv...