2026-09-21T07:26:10Zhttps://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/oai/requestoai:ecommons.cornell.edu:1813/1029082026-05-15T19:43:22Zcom_1813_35col_1813_47
Berrio Velasquez, Manuel Alejandro Salvador
Wolf, Steven A.
Rodewald, Amanda D.
Eloundou-Enyegue, Parfait M.
Makki, Fouad M.
2021-03-12T17:38:53Z
2021-03-12T17:38:53Z
2020-08
ProQuest Submission ID: 11022
ProQuest Publication ID: 28088635
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/102908
https://doi.org/10.7298/jjwg-an10
13277826
152 pages
The project of international development has been extensively and profoundly questioned. A fixation on economic growth, narrowly represented by income per capita metrics (e.g.: gross domestic product –GDP), has been the focus of particularly astringent criticism. Nevertheless, taxonomies distinguishing developed, developing, and underdeveloped countries (or similar categories), based on income per capita metrics, are still prevalent analytical tools in the realm of international discussions about social progress and in lay discourse. To contribute to the creation of a ‘dashboard’ of indicators reflective of a multidimensional notion of social progress, I analyze 53 years of data of the two components of the National Footprint Accounts, Biocapacity and Ecological Footprint per capita for 123 nations between 1961 and 2014. Using a simplified description of the joint trajectories of these components, I perform cluster analysis. The patterns that emerge allow me to describe the dynamics of sustainability for the study period by formulating a taxonomy of socio-ecological change. This research contributes to expand and improve our understanding of social progress from the point of view of sustainability. My description of the dynamics of sustainability, contributes to re-framing social progress from a notion of unbounded accumulation of wealth to a notion of political, uneven contest concerning people and natural resources. This taxonomy offers an opening to engage with social issues like widening and narrowing differences among nations (convergence/divergence), environmental or ecological (in)efficiency, unequal exchange, unequal ecological exchange, and ecological debts.
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Biocapacity
Classification
Cluster analysis
Ecological Footprint
National Footprint Accounts
Time series
DYNAMICS OF SOCIOECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY BASED ON NATIONAL FOOTPRINT ACCOUNTS (1961-2014)
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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810
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Cornell Theses and Dissertations
Berrio Velasquez, Manuel Alejandro Salvador
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