Peter Doran
Dr Peter Doran is a lecturer in law at the School of Law, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. His most recent publication is A Political Economy of Attention: Towards a Mindful Commons 2017 (Routlege)
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The School of Law
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Northern Ireland
Phone: +44 28 90973474
Address: Room 28:G04
The School of Law
The Queen’s University
28 University Square
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
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(Walker 1988) in the international system as agents of transformation of our understanding of security insofar as they have articulated a concept of security based on a radical reversal of the existing metaphysics of denial which currently underpin the impossible search for invulnerability in the politics of modernity, of which the state system ideology is an expression.
For the 2007 Review of the National Sustainable Development Strategy
Just as the Fair Trade Movement is, ultimately, based on a preparedness by producers, retailers and consumers to adopt a global perspective, deeply informed by an ethical orientation, long-term sustainable consumption and production choices will also require a global view e.g. understanding of the global implications of climate change in other parts of the world.
The Second International Expert Meeting on the Ten-year Framework process (Costa Rica) emphasised the importance of linking the work on SCP to poverty reduction, including the attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Recommendations included dialogue between SCP experts and development cooperation agencies in order to identify funding opportunities for SCP activities.
Given the success of the Fair Trade Movement in Ireland, some consideration could be given to a more explicit linkage between Fair Trade principles and consumer responses to sustainable consumption and production opportunities.
The international perspective is also relevant in terms of building capacity for local policy actors. If benchmarking against best practice is to inform local policy making and delivery, there is no more effective approach than proactive participation in European and other international processes such as the Marrakech Taskforces.
“In the same way as the Muslim world orientates itself towards Mecca, the entire fabric of Irish society faces the totem of the sun-god property and its various minor deities, kitchens, bathrooms, hardwood flooring, expansive utility rooms, maple decking or walk-in dressing rooms. Nothing defines you more than your house.” (David McWilliams, 2005)
adaptation, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the future of the United Nations climate change regime
beyond 2012. Based on an analysis of the key issues being negotiated, the Nairobi Conference can be understood as
an important step in the larger process towards a future climate change regime.
(Walker 1988) in the international system as agents of transformation of our understanding of security insofar as they have articulated a concept of security based on a radical reversal of the existing metaphysics of denial which currently underpin the impossible search for invulnerability in the politics of modernity, of which the state system ideology is an expression.
For the 2007 Review of the National Sustainable Development Strategy
Just as the Fair Trade Movement is, ultimately, based on a preparedness by producers, retailers and consumers to adopt a global perspective, deeply informed by an ethical orientation, long-term sustainable consumption and production choices will also require a global view e.g. understanding of the global implications of climate change in other parts of the world.
The Second International Expert Meeting on the Ten-year Framework process (Costa Rica) emphasised the importance of linking the work on SCP to poverty reduction, including the attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Recommendations included dialogue between SCP experts and development cooperation agencies in order to identify funding opportunities for SCP activities.
Given the success of the Fair Trade Movement in Ireland, some consideration could be given to a more explicit linkage between Fair Trade principles and consumer responses to sustainable consumption and production opportunities.
The international perspective is also relevant in terms of building capacity for local policy actors. If benchmarking against best practice is to inform local policy making and delivery, there is no more effective approach than proactive participation in European and other international processes such as the Marrakech Taskforces.
“In the same way as the Muslim world orientates itself towards Mecca, the entire fabric of Irish society faces the totem of the sun-god property and its various minor deities, kitchens, bathrooms, hardwood flooring, expansive utility rooms, maple decking or walk-in dressing rooms. Nothing defines you more than your house.” (David McWilliams, 2005)
adaptation, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the future of the United Nations climate change regime
beyond 2012. Based on an analysis of the key issues being negotiated, the Nairobi Conference can be understood as
an important step in the larger process towards a future climate change regime.
We take the view that the discourse of ‘ecological modernisation’ has provided discursive terrain for both pragmatic policy makers and a range of views on sustainable development, from weak to strong. In particular, the article suggests that the discourse of ‘economic security’ and ‘sufficiency’ can be used as a way of articulating a radical, robust and principled understanding of sustainable development, which offers a normatively compelling and policy-relevant path to outlining a ‘green political economy’ to underpin sustainable development.
KEYWORDS: green political economy, sustainable development, economic security, ecological modernisation, sufficiency.