Metabolic organisation : reframing ecological sustainability

Robert Perey

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Abstract

![CDATA[Humanity faces an ecological crisis of its own creation. The many facets of this crisis include human induced climate change, reduction in biodiversity in a broad range of ecosystems, increasing rate of species extinctions, and the impacts on social systems that span equity of access to food and water, human rights, and the well-being of individuals and societies. This ecological crisis is widely acknowledged and there have been many attempts at organisational and societal levels to redress its negative impacts, yet despite the widespread effort there seems to be little progress being made. To explain the lack of progress in resolving the ecological crisis I introduce the concept of the modern social imaginary (Taylor 2004), which I label an economic imaginary and argue that to overcome this inertia requires the creation of an ecological imaginary. This has left a gap for an alternate narrative to take on the role of progressing the adoption of sustainability. To address this gap I propose a different conceptual foundation to the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, environmental and social that I term metabolic organisation, a multi-scalar conceptual model that may be used at any level of analysis from individual to global.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Capitalism in Question, 9-13 August 2013, Orlando, Florida
PublisherAcademy of Management
Number of pages1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
EventAcademy of Management. Annual Meeting -
Duration: 1 Jan 2013 → …

Conference

ConferenceAcademy of Management. Annual Meeting
Period1/01/13 → …

Keywords

  • sustainability
  • ecology
  • metabolism

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