Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise ... more Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise it. In this paper, we look into the problem of sustainable water use as a complex matter which cannot be properly treated using a single representation. From a review of the relevant literature, we show that water provision is profoundly affected by land use in a given region, but different land uses also supply qualitatively heterogeneous ecosystem services in different scales. At the same time, humans will use water in different ways as a result of their specific belief systems. We propose that the better way to deal with this interface between water metabolized in the ecosystems supplying essential ecosystem services and water metabolized in a society which also needs other ecosystems services to exist is by the use of a holarchical structure. As we dispose of these processes (both natural and social) in different levels with different timescales, we can assess the holarchy's sustainability by considering the relative velocities of such processes occurring in different qualities integrated by the use of redundancy in models. But even if the diagnosis can be done in this way, the overall sustainability of water management depends on the beliefs held by the agents, as they act based upon these beliefs. To achieve sustainability, it is necessary to attune belief systems to institutional goals in water management.
This paper deals begins stating the importance of representation to metabolism and its relations ... more This paper deals begins stating the importance of representation to metabolism and its relations to the second law of thermodynamics. From this, we argue that we cannot understand the brain as a Turing machine, dealing only with information, because the complexity of living beings and the environments in which they are nested is inexhaustible, leading to a infinite amount of information for each being in the terms of the mathematical theory of communication. To be able to act upon this infinite complexity, the brain contracts information into feeling, making it possible for a person to analyze and decide in which way to act, based primarily on feeling and only then on the amount information they can process. The content of representation is, therefore, feeling and information.
One of the main issues concerning economics in recent times is complexity. In this paper, we defi... more One of the main issues concerning economics in recent times is complexity. In this paper, we define complexity as being a product of bifurcations on previously established identities that agents use to navigate a complex environment without having to consider every single detail perceived. Complexity harms efficiency, considered as the distance of a given performance to its optimum, because it changes the metric in which it is measured, preventing the system from reaching equilibrium. But this only happens when factors unconsidered in the system current identity become important enough to alter the system's dynamics. As a result, we propose a measure for efficiency which is based on the number of bifurcations, but this can only be properly assessed in relation to well-defined goals since the observer's characteristics are as important to complexity as the system's.
Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise ... more Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise it. In this paper, we look into the problem of sustainable water use in the Triangulo Mineiro region in central Brazil. To do that, we used the Multi-Scalar Integrated Analysis of Societal and Environmental Metabolism (MuSIASEM.) methodology to structure the data into two holarchies which represents the environmental perspective (watershed) and the socioeconomic perspective (problemshed) to assess the viability and feasibility of the water metabolism in each holon and its impacts on the other holons. We concluded that water use in the region is sustainable, but that extensive cattle raising in the region is a waste of water in both representations and should be reduced.
espanolLa sostenibilidad es un tema complejo porque reune bajo un concepto varios problemas espec... more espanolLa sostenibilidad es un tema complejo porque reune bajo un concepto varios problemas especificos tratados en diferentes cualidades. Este trabajo utiliza la metodologia de Analisis Integrado Multiescalar del Metabolismo Social y Ambiental (MuSIASEM) para integrar dos representaciones diferentes de la misma mesorregion, el Triangulo Mineiro, que se refieren al uso del agua, en terminos ambientales (cuenca) y socioeconomicos. (la mesorregion administrativa). Despues de estructurar las representaciones en los diferentes niveles de una holarquia, se analizo que la extensa cria de ganado presente en la region configura un desperdicio de agua desde el punto de vista ambiental y socioeconomico. Con base en este analisis, se probo un escenario con una politica publica basada en pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA) que descubrio que es posible, basado en incentivos economicos, hacer que la situacion sea mas satisfactoria tanto para los agentes como para los ecosistemas. EnglishSustain...
Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise ... more Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise it. In this paper, we look into the problem of sustainable water use as a complex matter which cannot be properly treated using a single representation. From a review of the relevant literature, we show that water provision is profoundly affected by land use in a given region, but different land uses also supply qualitatively heterogeneous ecosystem services in different scales. At the same time, humans will use water in different ways as a result of their specific belief systems. We propose that the better way to deal with this interface between water metabolized in the ecosystems supplying essential ecosystem services and water metabolized in a society which also needs other ecosystems services to exist is by the use of a holarchical structure. As we dispose of these processes (both natural and social) in different levels with different timescales, we can assess the holarchy's sustainability by considering the relative velocities of such processes occurring in different qualities integrated by the use of redundancy in models. But even if the diagnosis can be done in this way, the overall sustainability of water management depends on the beliefs held by the agents, as they act based upon these beliefs. To achieve sustainability, it is necessary to attune belief systems to institutional goals in water management.
This paper deals begins stating the importance of representation to metabolism and its relations ... more This paper deals begins stating the importance of representation to metabolism and its relations to the second law of thermodynamics. From this, we argue that we cannot understand the brain as a Turing machine, dealing only with information, because the complexity of living beings and the environments in which they are nested is inexhaustible, leading to a infinite amount of information for each being in the terms of the mathematical theory of communication. To be able to act upon this infinite complexity, the brain contracts information into feeling, making it possible for a person to analyze and decide in which way to act, based primarily on feeling and only then on the amount information they can process. The content of representation is, therefore, feeling and information.
Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise ... more Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise it. In this paper, we look into the problem of sustainable water use in the Triangulo Mineiro region in central Brazil. To do that, we used the Multi-Scalar Integrated Analysis of Societal and Environmental Metabolism (MuSIASEM.) methodology to structure the data into two holarchies which represents the environmental perspective (watershed) and the socioeconomic perspective (problemshed) to assess the viability and feasibility of the water metabolism in each holon and its impacts on the other holons. We concluded that water use in the region is sustainable, but that extensive cattle raising in the region is a waste of water in both representations and should be reduced.
One of the main issues concerning economics in recent times is complexity. In this paper, we defi... more One of the main issues concerning economics in recent times is complexity. In this paper, we define complexity as being a product of bifurcations on previously established identities that agents use to navigate a complex environment without having to consider every single detail perceived. Complexity harms efficiency, considered as the distance of a given performance to its optimum, because it changes the metric in which it is measured, preventing the system from reaching equilibrium. But this only happens when factors unconsidered in the system current identity become important enough to alter the system's dynamics. As a result, we propose a measure for efficiency which is based on the number of bifurcations, but this can only be properly assessed in relation to well-defined goals since the observer's characteristics are as important to complexity as the system's.
Resumo: Embora sejam intensas as preocupações com o desenvolvimento sustentável, escassas são as ... more Resumo: Embora sejam intensas as preocupações com o desenvolvimento sustentável, escassas são as tentativas de se mensurá-lo entre as unidades subnacionais no Brasil. Com o intuito de contribuir para o preenchimento dessa lacuna, este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar a sustentabilidade ecológica do consumo da população do Estado de Minas Gerais no ano de 2008 por meio do cálculo de sua pegada ecológica. A análise se baseia nas contribuições mais recentes para tal metodologia, buscando comparar o impacto local e a disponibilidade global de recursos. Concluiu-se que, apesar de estar dentro da própria capacidade de suporte do Estado, em termos per capita, a demanda absoluta por capital natural gera uma pressão excessiva quando comparada à disponibilidade mundial de capital natural, uma vez que, caso a população de todo o mundo mantivesse o mesmo padrão de consumo dos mineiros, seriam necessários 2,64 planetas Terra para sustentá-la.
Anais do XIII Encontro da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica, 2019
This paper traces the relation between complexity and thermodynamics of dissipative structures an... more This paper traces the relation between complexity and thermodynamics of dissipative structures and its consequences for sustainability. For this, we used the concept of complexity as presented by Rosen, considered inside a holarchy, to assess Allen, Tainter and Hoekstra's contributions about the entropic character of social complexity. To asses the relation between an increase in complexity and sustainable development, we used Daly's notion of uneconomic growth. Based on these ideas, we conclude that different subsystems of a society are non-equivalent among them, performing functions that act upon different environmental qualities.
Resumo Embora sejam intensas as preocupações com o desenvolvimento sustentável, escassas são as t... more Resumo Embora sejam intensas as preocupações com o desenvolvimento sustentável, escassas são as tentativas de se mensurá-lo entre as unidades subnacionais no Brasil. Com o intuito de con-tribuir para o preenchimento dessa lacuna, este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar a sustentabilidade ecológica do consumo da po-pulação do Estado de Minas Gerais no ano de 2008 por meio do cálculo de sua pegada ecoló-gica. A análise se baseia nas contribuições mais recentes para tal metodologia, buscando compa-rar o impacto local e a disponibilidade global de recursos. Concluiu-se que, apesar de estar dentro da própria capacidade de suporte do Estado, em termos per capita, a demanda absoluta por capital natural gera uma pressão excessiva quando comparada à disponibilidade mundial de capital natural, uma vez que, caso a população de todo o mundo mantivesse o mesmo padrão de consu-mo dos mineiros, seriam necessários 2,64 plane-tas Terra para sustentá-la. Abstract Despite concerns about sustainable development being very intense, there are few attempts to measure it among sub-national units in Brazil. In order to contribute to filling this gap, this paper aims to provide an ecological sustainability assessment for the consumption of Minas Gerais's population in 2008 based on the calculation of its ecological footprint. The analysis draws upon the most recent contributions for this methodology based on comparisons between its local impact and global availability of resources. We concluded that in absolute terms the demand for natural capital in the state is less than its capacity. Nonetheless, in terms of per capita consumption it places significant pressure on global availability of natural capital because, if the global population were to consume the equivalent of an average person from Minas Gerais, there would need to be 2.64 planet Earths to sustain such a consumption level. Palavras-chave pegada ecológica, escala, sustentabilidade, Minas Gerais. Classificação JEL Q50; Q56; Q57.
RESUMO: A noção de sustentabilidade já traz em si a questão do tempo: o que quer que se busque su... more RESUMO: A noção de sustentabilidade já traz em si a questão do tempo: o que quer que se busque sustentar, busca-se fazê-lo por um período (determinado ou indeterminado). A sustentabilidade seria, portanto, a capacidade de mantermos o grau de organização de nossa sociedade por meio de um padrão de funcionamento que não a coloque em conflito com o ambiente que a contém, que denominamos padrão de metabolismo social. A obtenção de tal padrão "saudável" de metabolismo social está relacionada à questão dos diferenciais de ritmo entre diferentes processos intrínsecos à dinâmica do subsistema e dos processos pertencentes a dinâmica do sistema. O objetivo deste artigo é tratar a questão dos diferenciais de ritmo entre processos ocorridos nos subsistemas e no sistema maior que os contém como ponto fundamental para obter a sustentabilidade de um sistema, seja qual for a dimensão de análise. ABSTRACT: The notion of sustainability brings a temporal problem: anything that is sustainable, it is for a period (finite or indefinite). Sustainability is, therefore, the ability to keep our society's degree of organization through a pattern of social metabolism. To reach a "healthy" pattern of social metabolism it is necessary to consider the time differentials among different process that occurs among a system and its subsystems. This paper's goal is to treat the question of time differentials among process in a holarchical structure as an essential point to reach a system's sustainability, in any of sustainability's dimensions.
O conceito de Triple Bottom Line
(TBL) foi introduzido por John Elkington para
tornar a responsab... more O conceito de Triple Bottom Line (TBL) foi introduzido por John Elkington para tornar a responsabilidade social e ambiental operacionalizáveis dentro da firma a partir das dimensões econômica, social e ambiental. Por ser de fácil entendimento, o TBL popularizouse no âmbito acadêmico e além, demonstrando grande relevância no desenvolvimento de práticas para a sustentabilidade empresarial. Há, no entanto, sérios problemas com este conceito, derivados fundamentalmente do fato de que ele não é uma representação adequada da realidade. Este artigo tem como objetivo chamar a atenção para as falhas do TBL e propor uma alternativa mais bem fundamentada na relação sistêmica e hierárquica entre essas três dimensões do desenvolvimento sustentável (econômica, social e ambiental). Adicionalmente são apresentados alguns apontamentos de como esta abordagem alternativa do TBL pode ser operacionalizada.
Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise ... more Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise it. In this paper, we look into the problem of sustainable water use as a complex matter which cannot be properly treated using a single representation. From a review of the relevant literature, we show that water provision is profoundly affected by land use in a given region, but different land uses also supply qualitatively heterogeneous ecosystem services in different scales. At the same time, humans will use water in different ways as a result of their specific belief systems. We propose that the better way to deal with this interface between water metabolized in the ecosystems supplying essential ecosystem services and water metabolized in a society which also needs other ecosystems services to exist is by the use of a holarchical structure. As we dispose of these processes (both natural and social) in different levels with different timescales, we can assess the holarchy's sustainability by considering the relative velocities of such processes occurring in different qualities integrated by the use of redundancy in models. But even if the diagnosis can be done in this way, the overall sustainability of water management depends on the beliefs held by the agents, as they act based upon these beliefs. To achieve sustainability, it is necessary to attune belief systems to institutional goals in water management.
This paper deals begins stating the importance of representation to metabolism and its relations ... more This paper deals begins stating the importance of representation to metabolism and its relations to the second law of thermodynamics. From this, we argue that we cannot understand the brain as a Turing machine, dealing only with information, because the complexity of living beings and the environments in which they are nested is inexhaustible, leading to a infinite amount of information for each being in the terms of the mathematical theory of communication. To be able to act upon this infinite complexity, the brain contracts information into feeling, making it possible for a person to analyze and decide in which way to act, based primarily on feeling and only then on the amount information they can process. The content of representation is, therefore, feeling and information.
One of the main issues concerning economics in recent times is complexity. In this paper, we defi... more One of the main issues concerning economics in recent times is complexity. In this paper, we define complexity as being a product of bifurcations on previously established identities that agents use to navigate a complex environment without having to consider every single detail perceived. Complexity harms efficiency, considered as the distance of a given performance to its optimum, because it changes the metric in which it is measured, preventing the system from reaching equilibrium. But this only happens when factors unconsidered in the system current identity become important enough to alter the system's dynamics. As a result, we propose a measure for efficiency which is based on the number of bifurcations, but this can only be properly assessed in relation to well-defined goals since the observer's characteristics are as important to complexity as the system's.
Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise ... more Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise it. In this paper, we look into the problem of sustainable water use in the Triangulo Mineiro region in central Brazil. To do that, we used the Multi-Scalar Integrated Analysis of Societal and Environmental Metabolism (MuSIASEM.) methodology to structure the data into two holarchies which represents the environmental perspective (watershed) and the socioeconomic perspective (problemshed) to assess the viability and feasibility of the water metabolism in each holon and its impacts on the other holons. We concluded that water use in the region is sustainable, but that extensive cattle raising in the region is a waste of water in both representations and should be reduced.
espanolLa sostenibilidad es un tema complejo porque reune bajo un concepto varios problemas espec... more espanolLa sostenibilidad es un tema complejo porque reune bajo un concepto varios problemas especificos tratados en diferentes cualidades. Este trabajo utiliza la metodologia de Analisis Integrado Multiescalar del Metabolismo Social y Ambiental (MuSIASEM) para integrar dos representaciones diferentes de la misma mesorregion, el Triangulo Mineiro, que se refieren al uso del agua, en terminos ambientales (cuenca) y socioeconomicos. (la mesorregion administrativa). Despues de estructurar las representaciones en los diferentes niveles de una holarquia, se analizo que la extensa cria de ganado presente en la region configura un desperdicio de agua desde el punto de vista ambiental y socioeconomico. Con base en este analisis, se probo un escenario con una politica publica basada en pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA) que descubrio que es posible, basado en incentivos economicos, hacer que la situacion sea mas satisfactoria tanto para los agentes como para los ecosistemas. EnglishSustain...
Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise ... more Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise it. In this paper, we look into the problem of sustainable water use as a complex matter which cannot be properly treated using a single representation. From a review of the relevant literature, we show that water provision is profoundly affected by land use in a given region, but different land uses also supply qualitatively heterogeneous ecosystem services in different scales. At the same time, humans will use water in different ways as a result of their specific belief systems. We propose that the better way to deal with this interface between water metabolized in the ecosystems supplying essential ecosystem services and water metabolized in a society which also needs other ecosystems services to exist is by the use of a holarchical structure. As we dispose of these processes (both natural and social) in different levels with different timescales, we can assess the holarchy's sustainability by considering the relative velocities of such processes occurring in different qualities integrated by the use of redundancy in models. But even if the diagnosis can be done in this way, the overall sustainability of water management depends on the beliefs held by the agents, as they act based upon these beliefs. To achieve sustainability, it is necessary to attune belief systems to institutional goals in water management.
This paper deals begins stating the importance of representation to metabolism and its relations ... more This paper deals begins stating the importance of representation to metabolism and its relations to the second law of thermodynamics. From this, we argue that we cannot understand the brain as a Turing machine, dealing only with information, because the complexity of living beings and the environments in which they are nested is inexhaustible, leading to a infinite amount of information for each being in the terms of the mathematical theory of communication. To be able to act upon this infinite complexity, the brain contracts information into feeling, making it possible for a person to analyze and decide in which way to act, based primarily on feeling and only then on the amount information they can process. The content of representation is, therefore, feeling and information.
Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise ... more Sustainability is a complex issue for the range of qualitatively specific problems that comprise it. In this paper, we look into the problem of sustainable water use in the Triangulo Mineiro region in central Brazil. To do that, we used the Multi-Scalar Integrated Analysis of Societal and Environmental Metabolism (MuSIASEM.) methodology to structure the data into two holarchies which represents the environmental perspective (watershed) and the socioeconomic perspective (problemshed) to assess the viability and feasibility of the water metabolism in each holon and its impacts on the other holons. We concluded that water use in the region is sustainable, but that extensive cattle raising in the region is a waste of water in both representations and should be reduced.
One of the main issues concerning economics in recent times is complexity. In this paper, we defi... more One of the main issues concerning economics in recent times is complexity. In this paper, we define complexity as being a product of bifurcations on previously established identities that agents use to navigate a complex environment without having to consider every single detail perceived. Complexity harms efficiency, considered as the distance of a given performance to its optimum, because it changes the metric in which it is measured, preventing the system from reaching equilibrium. But this only happens when factors unconsidered in the system current identity become important enough to alter the system's dynamics. As a result, we propose a measure for efficiency which is based on the number of bifurcations, but this can only be properly assessed in relation to well-defined goals since the observer's characteristics are as important to complexity as the system's.
Resumo: Embora sejam intensas as preocupações com o desenvolvimento sustentável, escassas são as ... more Resumo: Embora sejam intensas as preocupações com o desenvolvimento sustentável, escassas são as tentativas de se mensurá-lo entre as unidades subnacionais no Brasil. Com o intuito de contribuir para o preenchimento dessa lacuna, este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar a sustentabilidade ecológica do consumo da população do Estado de Minas Gerais no ano de 2008 por meio do cálculo de sua pegada ecológica. A análise se baseia nas contribuições mais recentes para tal metodologia, buscando comparar o impacto local e a disponibilidade global de recursos. Concluiu-se que, apesar de estar dentro da própria capacidade de suporte do Estado, em termos per capita, a demanda absoluta por capital natural gera uma pressão excessiva quando comparada à disponibilidade mundial de capital natural, uma vez que, caso a população de todo o mundo mantivesse o mesmo padrão de consumo dos mineiros, seriam necessários 2,64 planetas Terra para sustentá-la.
Anais do XIII Encontro da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica, 2019
This paper traces the relation between complexity and thermodynamics of dissipative structures an... more This paper traces the relation between complexity and thermodynamics of dissipative structures and its consequences for sustainability. For this, we used the concept of complexity as presented by Rosen, considered inside a holarchy, to assess Allen, Tainter and Hoekstra's contributions about the entropic character of social complexity. To asses the relation between an increase in complexity and sustainable development, we used Daly's notion of uneconomic growth. Based on these ideas, we conclude that different subsystems of a society are non-equivalent among them, performing functions that act upon different environmental qualities.
Resumo Embora sejam intensas as preocupações com o desenvolvimento sustentável, escassas são as t... more Resumo Embora sejam intensas as preocupações com o desenvolvimento sustentável, escassas são as tentativas de se mensurá-lo entre as unidades subnacionais no Brasil. Com o intuito de con-tribuir para o preenchimento dessa lacuna, este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar a sustentabilidade ecológica do consumo da po-pulação do Estado de Minas Gerais no ano de 2008 por meio do cálculo de sua pegada ecoló-gica. A análise se baseia nas contribuições mais recentes para tal metodologia, buscando compa-rar o impacto local e a disponibilidade global de recursos. Concluiu-se que, apesar de estar dentro da própria capacidade de suporte do Estado, em termos per capita, a demanda absoluta por capital natural gera uma pressão excessiva quando comparada à disponibilidade mundial de capital natural, uma vez que, caso a população de todo o mundo mantivesse o mesmo padrão de consu-mo dos mineiros, seriam necessários 2,64 plane-tas Terra para sustentá-la. Abstract Despite concerns about sustainable development being very intense, there are few attempts to measure it among sub-national units in Brazil. In order to contribute to filling this gap, this paper aims to provide an ecological sustainability assessment for the consumption of Minas Gerais's population in 2008 based on the calculation of its ecological footprint. The analysis draws upon the most recent contributions for this methodology based on comparisons between its local impact and global availability of resources. We concluded that in absolute terms the demand for natural capital in the state is less than its capacity. Nonetheless, in terms of per capita consumption it places significant pressure on global availability of natural capital because, if the global population were to consume the equivalent of an average person from Minas Gerais, there would need to be 2.64 planet Earths to sustain such a consumption level. Palavras-chave pegada ecológica, escala, sustentabilidade, Minas Gerais. Classificação JEL Q50; Q56; Q57.
RESUMO: A noção de sustentabilidade já traz em si a questão do tempo: o que quer que se busque su... more RESUMO: A noção de sustentabilidade já traz em si a questão do tempo: o que quer que se busque sustentar, busca-se fazê-lo por um período (determinado ou indeterminado). A sustentabilidade seria, portanto, a capacidade de mantermos o grau de organização de nossa sociedade por meio de um padrão de funcionamento que não a coloque em conflito com o ambiente que a contém, que denominamos padrão de metabolismo social. A obtenção de tal padrão "saudável" de metabolismo social está relacionada à questão dos diferenciais de ritmo entre diferentes processos intrínsecos à dinâmica do subsistema e dos processos pertencentes a dinâmica do sistema. O objetivo deste artigo é tratar a questão dos diferenciais de ritmo entre processos ocorridos nos subsistemas e no sistema maior que os contém como ponto fundamental para obter a sustentabilidade de um sistema, seja qual for a dimensão de análise. ABSTRACT: The notion of sustainability brings a temporal problem: anything that is sustainable, it is for a period (finite or indefinite). Sustainability is, therefore, the ability to keep our society's degree of organization through a pattern of social metabolism. To reach a "healthy" pattern of social metabolism it is necessary to consider the time differentials among different process that occurs among a system and its subsystems. This paper's goal is to treat the question of time differentials among process in a holarchical structure as an essential point to reach a system's sustainability, in any of sustainability's dimensions.
O conceito de Triple Bottom Line
(TBL) foi introduzido por John Elkington para
tornar a responsab... more O conceito de Triple Bottom Line (TBL) foi introduzido por John Elkington para tornar a responsabilidade social e ambiental operacionalizáveis dentro da firma a partir das dimensões econômica, social e ambiental. Por ser de fácil entendimento, o TBL popularizouse no âmbito acadêmico e além, demonstrando grande relevância no desenvolvimento de práticas para a sustentabilidade empresarial. Há, no entanto, sérios problemas com este conceito, derivados fundamentalmente do fato de que ele não é uma representação adequada da realidade. Este artigo tem como objetivo chamar a atenção para as falhas do TBL e propor uma alternativa mais bem fundamentada na relação sistêmica e hierárquica entre essas três dimensões do desenvolvimento sustentável (econômica, social e ambiental). Adicionalmente são apresentados alguns apontamentos de como esta abordagem alternativa do TBL pode ser operacionalizada.
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(TBL) foi introduzido por John Elkington para
tornar a responsabilidade social e ambiental
operacionalizáveis dentro da firma a partir das
dimensões econômica, social e ambiental. Por
ser de fácil entendimento, o TBL popularizouse no âmbito acadêmico e além, demonstrando
grande relevância no desenvolvimento de
práticas para a sustentabilidade empresarial.
Há, no entanto, sérios problemas com este
conceito, derivados fundamentalmente do fato
de que ele não é uma representação adequada
da realidade. Este artigo tem como objetivo
chamar a atenção para as falhas do TBL e
propor uma alternativa mais bem fundamentada
na relação sistêmica e hierárquica entre essas
três dimensões do desenvolvimento sustentável
(econômica, social e ambiental). Adicionalmente
são apresentados alguns apontamentos de
como esta abordagem alternativa do TBL pode
ser operacionalizada.
(TBL) foi introduzido por John Elkington para
tornar a responsabilidade social e ambiental
operacionalizáveis dentro da firma a partir das
dimensões econômica, social e ambiental. Por
ser de fácil entendimento, o TBL popularizouse no âmbito acadêmico e além, demonstrando
grande relevância no desenvolvimento de
práticas para a sustentabilidade empresarial.
Há, no entanto, sérios problemas com este
conceito, derivados fundamentalmente do fato
de que ele não é uma representação adequada
da realidade. Este artigo tem como objetivo
chamar a atenção para as falhas do TBL e
propor uma alternativa mais bem fundamentada
na relação sistêmica e hierárquica entre essas
três dimensões do desenvolvimento sustentável
(econômica, social e ambiental). Adicionalmente
são apresentados alguns apontamentos de
como esta abordagem alternativa do TBL pode
ser operacionalizada.