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Natural resources and
sustainable development
Joost Platje
Joost.platje@gmail.com
12. Sustainable Economic Development Theories of Sustainability, Sustainability
Indicators
• THEORY
• Sustainable economic development theories of sustainability, sustainability
indicators.
Natural resources and SD
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Capacity and capability for sustainable
development - a transaction costs and
property rights perspective
Joost Platje
Wrocław School of Banking
johannes.platje@wsb.wroclaw.pl
joost.Platje@gmail.com
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1. Institutional capital and SD
• SD concerns inter- and intra-generational
equity.
• Aim - to create capabilities for
individuals to live a high quality of life,
while not reducing these capabilities for
future generations.
• Institutional capital determines
society’s capacity to enter and maintain
a path of SD.
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Key determinants of
sustainability
• Stability and resilience of different systems,
fundamental for the functioning of society
– ecosystems, energy supply systems,
– transport systems,
– financial systems.
• The institutional capacity to achieve this may be
the bottom-line for preventing collapse of such
systems.
• But the cure can have side-effects, and
sometimes worse than the disease!
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INSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL AND
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• „The capability of
actors in society to
enhance
human
capabilities and create
a more sustainable
society
(Platje,
2011).”
• Application
of
transaction cost (TC)
and property right
economics on issues of
http://www.sciinstitute.org/capacity.html
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Institutional capital
• „The institutional
framework creating the
capacity for and enabling
management of human
resources, as well as other
types of capital (physical
capital, infrastructure,
human capital, etc.) to
achieve ecological, social
and economic
sustainability (Platje,
2011).”
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1
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INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
• facilitates identification of
“leverage points” –
places in the system
where intervention is most
effective for achieving
sustainable development.
http://www.thwink.org/sustain/glossary/LeveragePoint.h
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Institutional capital and elements of
SD
• Economic
elements
• Social elements
• Environmental
elements
Winning entry from the Asia-Pacific cartoon
contest on Climate Change and Human
Development (United Nations Development
Programme, Flickr)
http://urbantimes.co/2012/05/sustainable-development-climate-changeadrian-macey/
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Economic elements efficiency
• Efficiency
– produce more using the same inputs
– producing the same, using less inputs.
• Which type of increase in production
puts less pressure on the
environment and supports equity?
• Private, common and public property
have different social, economic and
environmental effects.
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Economic elements – growth and
stability
• How much production
do we need for a
„good life”? Are our
needs unlimited?
• Stability – people do
not like sharp
downward changes in
their income.
http://meetville.com/quotes/tag/greed/page8
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Social elements
• Poverty,
• Consultation / empowerment
– who decides what is
important?
• Political
freedom
and
freedom of press prevent
famines (A. Sen).
• But who is interested in
letting
other
people
determine their own lives?
http://objective-morality.blogspot.com/
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Environmental elements
• biodiversity / resilience,
natural resources, pollution
• Environment = all
natural resources (e.g.
land, water, air, fossil
fuels, precious metals
and other raw materials,
animal and plant life)
and other environmental
factors.
http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/2012/05/04/
civilization-really/
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Environmental elements
• Ownership provides
incentives for
sustainable use.
• Social element –
natural resources often
provide income for the
poor (e.g., forest, sea,
river).
• TC – costs of
preventing overuse.
http://www2.uregina.ca/yourblog/environmental-econom
reducing-degradation-through-incentives/
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Environmental elements
• Current problems – global
system threats.
• More complex and
potentially disastrous
situations than ever felt
before in human history.
• Should regulation assume
the precautionary principle
(like in the European
Union)?
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/
globalchange2/
current/lectures/biodiversity/biodiversity.html
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EU indicators of sustainable development (http://
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdi/indicators)
Theme
Headline indicator
Socio-economic development
Real GDP per capita, growth rate and
totals
Sustainable consumption and productio
n
Resource productivity
Social inclusion
Persons at-risk-of-poverty or social
exclusion
Demographic changes
Employment rate of older workers
Public health
Healthy life years and life expectancy
at birth, by sex
Climate change and energy
Greenhouse gas emissions
Primary energy consumption
Sustainable transport
Energy consumption of transport
relative to GDP
Natural resources
Common bird index
Global partnership
Official development assistance as
share of gross national income
Good governance
No headline indicator
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Indicators of institutional capital
(source: Platje, 2011)
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Subthemes Subthemes level 2 – EU
and World Bank indicators
Indicators to be developed
measuring institutional capital
Head indicator of institutional capital – institutional strength
Enforcement
of contracts,
institutional
stability and
policy
making
by
institutional
governance
for Institutional
conditions,
relation with other
elements
of
institutional
capital
Enforceability of government Number of NGOs and civil society
and private contracts; violent associations involved in protecting social
and organised crime; fairness and environmental rights.
of judicial process; speediness
of
judicial
process; Identifiability of ownership - existence of
nationalisation/expropriation;
land and property register. Transaction
quality of police; independent costs and effectiveness of functioning
judiciary;
legal
framework relates to accountability (good governance).
supporting
legality
of
government;
protection
of
intellectual, financial, material
and immaterial assets; security
of traditional property rights;
importance of the informal
economy; level of organised
crime; importance of tax
evasion in the formal sector;
government
respect
for
contracts;
judicial
Source: Based on Platje (2009).
First and second
accountability;
... columns
(WB). based on Kaufmann et al.
Formal rules creating
and
changing
institutional
governance
when
needed.
Most WB indicators of
rule of law rather
concern
the
enforcement
of
contracts and policy
making
by
institutional
governance
institutional strength
as a condition for
good governance.
(2009) and Commission … (2005).
EU = European Union indicator. WB = World Bank Indicator.
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Incentives
for
sustainable
production
and
consumption
behaviour
provided by
formal
institutions
Export and import regulations;
other
regulatory
burdens;
restriction on the ownership of
business and equity by nonresidents;
price
controls;
excessive protection; rules
limiting
competition;
antimonopoly law; competitiondisturbing
environmental
regulation; complexity of the
tax system; banking/finance;
formalities for
starting-up
business;
labour
market
policies; price liberalisation;
conditions for rural financial
service
development;
etc.
(WB).
Indicators of private, common and public
property right regimes influencing social
and environmental sustainability, e.g.,
regulation
supporting
sustainable
consumption and production.
Influenced by the
quality of regulations
and
policy
coherence; existence
of
social
and
environmental
Existence of property right regime for regulations.
natural resources and the distribution of
access and withdrawal rights, in order to The paradigm of the
establish whether SD is a club good.
necessity
of
economic growth is
Issues of SD in legal acts, directives, policy implied by many
documents etc. Distribution of property World Bank and EU
ownership and wealth.
indicators.
Related to incentives
and the propensity to
lie and cheat (see
institutional
equilibrium).
Incentives to take
charge of ones’
own life.
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Capability
enhancing
formal
institutions
Freedom
of
association;
freedom of speech; freedom of
press; freedom of political
participation; religious freedom;
freedom of movement of
persons; guaranteed access to
information ... (WB).
Freedom
of
possession,
use
and
management of property, freedom of
contract, conditioned by regulations needed
for sustainable production and consumption.
Freedoms also should include the “Freedom
House categories of civil liberties”
(BenYishay and Betancourt, 2008, 30), such
as freedom of enterprise and belief
(“independent media; freedom of religious
institutions and communities; academic
freedom and lack of political indoctrination
in education; open and free private
discussion”) and personal autonomy and
individual rights (“free choice of residence,
employment, institution of higher education;
private
property
and
entrepreneurial
freedom; social freedoms, e.g., gender
equality, choice of marriage partners and
size of family; equality of opportunity and
absence of economic exploitation”).
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WB indicators concern
voice
and
accountability
–
institutional strength
as a condition for
good governance.
Capabilities
achieving
a
quality of life.
for
good
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Subthemes
Indicators to be developed Institutional
conditions,
for measuring institutional relation with other elements
capital
of institutional capital
Head indicator of institutional capital - Good governance
Participation,
voice
and
accountability
(EU, WB)
Subthemes level 2 – EU
and World Bank indicators
Voter turnout in national
parliamentary
elections;
response to EU internet
public consultation (EU).
Specific issues within themes,
and
various
measures
implementing
headline
objectives are:
voter
turnout
in
EU
parliamentary elections by
gender, by age group and by
highest level of education
attained;
E-government
online
availability;
Egovernment
usage
by
individuals (EU).
Transaction costs of access to
information and access to
institutional governance for
different
stakeholders,
in
particular weak stakeholders.
Transaction costs of access to
media and establishing an
NGO
or
civil
society
association.
Measurement of access to
information by the number of
newspapers
circulating
or
number of Internet subscribers
or people with Internet access
(Spangenberg et al., 2002, 66).
The differentiation of activities
and the percentage of society
Civil society organisations; active in NGOs or civil society
media (WB).
organisations.
Institutional
thickness,
such
as
Vested
interests, environmental
associations,
accountability
of
public charity, culture, socio-culture,
officials, lack of censorship, labour
unions,
youth
effectiveness of law making associations, sports clubs,
and control by national neighbourhood
associations,
parliament, ... (WB).
political associations (Coffé
Natural
resources
and SD
and Geys,
2005).
Existence, functioning and
Accountability
–
property
rights and competencies make
owners
identifiable
and
responsible.
Determined by different types
of freedoms (see institutional
strength, capability enhancing
institutions).
Capabilities and incentives to
take charge of ones’ own life.
While
e-government
and
access to the Internet may be
relevant for HDCs, the number
of newspapers circulating may
be more relevant for LDCs
(Spangenberg et al., 2002, 60).
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Political stability and Political
factions
absence of violence / organised along language,
terrorism (WB)
ethic and / or religious
divides; risk of a military
coup; political terrorism;
societal conflict; political
assassination; civil war;
armed conflict; violent
demonstrations; autonomy
and separation; state of
emergency; frequency of
political
killings,
disappearance and torture
(WB).
Need
indicators
to
distinguish between real
numbers and perceived
threats.
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Influenced by institutional
strength and institutional
equilibrium. May also be an
expression of the strength
of institutions and an
institutional equilibrium, as
well as of dangerous
stakeholders
questioning
the system.
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Government Bureaucratic delays; rate of
effectiveness government
personnel
(WB)
turnover;
quality
of
government
personnel;
global
E-government;
quality
of
public
infrastructure; quality of
public schools; quality of
supply of public goods;
capacity
of
tax
administration to implement
measures;
quickness
of
adaptation to new economic
challenges ... (WB).
Quickness of adaptation to Transaction costs for the use
social,
economic
and of institutional governance.
environmental challenges.
Quality
of
supply
of
Private-public
partnerships capability-enhancing public
for the provision of public goods (e.g., education, health
goods
and
innovative care,
infrastructure),
solutions (Moulaert, 2002).
enhancing participation in
social, economic and political
life.
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Determines the resilience of a
system.
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Science
Objective and independent science representing the research needs of
different groups and supporting system survival.
For economic science this implies a paradigm change from economic
performance and efficiency to the aims of system survival and
expansion of human capabilities
Indicators to be developed – e.g., development of new methods of
production and environmental protection etc..
No. of patents on eco-efficient production technologies.
Topics of research (priorities), what type of sustainability issues does
research focus upon?
“Potential scientists and engineers per million; … scientists and
engineers engaged in R&D per [unit of population]; expenditure on R&D
as a percentage of GDP (Spangenberg et al., 2002, 65)
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Regulatory
quality (WB)
and
policy
coherence
(EU)
Proportion
of
environmentally
harmful
subsidies;
number
of
infringement cases brought
in front of the Court of
Justice, by policy area;
administrative costs imposed
by legislation (EU).
Specific
issues
within
themes,
and
various
measures
implementing
headline
objectives
are:
share of major proposals in
the Commission’s Legal
and Work Programme for
which an impact assessment
has
been
undertaken;
transposition of Community
law, by policy area (EU).
Indicators
of
the Influences
freedom
of
sustainability
impact contract
and
transaction
assessments carried out.
costs appearing due to
limitations on property rights.
Indicators
of
the
effectiveness of institutional Determines the resilience of
change.
a system and path of
institutional change.
Challenge of the development
of indicators showing tradeoffs between low transaction
costs of economic activity
and high transaction costs of
harming the environment or
infringing labour rights, etc.,
in order to assess the effects
of policy.
Most WB indicators of
regulatory quality rather
concern the existence of
formal institutions and the
incentives they provide.
Efficiency
of
the
tax
collection system; ease of
doing business related to
social, environmental and
economic regulation; Natural
ease of resources and SD
starting a company (WB).
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Control of Corruption; losses and
corruption costs resulting from
(WB)
corruption;
government efforts to
tackle
corruption;
frequency of firms
making
extra
payments connected
to:
import/export
permits,
public
utilities,
tax
payments, awarding
of public contracts,
obtaining favourable
judicial
decisions;
frequency of bribery
in taxes, customs and
judiciary; how many
judges,
government
officials, civil servants
do you think are
involved in corruption
(WB).
Need to distinguish
between
factual
numbers and perceived
levels of corruption,
which are related to
trust in institutional
governance.
Size
of
economy.
Corruption is a sign of
weak institutions and
inefficient institutional
governance.
informal
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Subthemes Subthemes level 2 – EU
and World Bank indicators
Indicators to be developed Institutional
conditions,
for measuring institutional relation with other elements
capital
of institutional capital
Head indicator of institutional capital – institutional equilibrium
Trust in and
satisfaction
with
institutional
governance
Trust in the fairness of
elections;
trust
in
parliament, satisfaction with
democracy; satisfaction with
public
transportation
system, roads and highways
and the educational system;
(WB,
voice
and
accountability).
Confidence/trust
in
the
police
force;
confidence/trust
in
the
judicial system (WB, rule of
law).
Public trust in the financial
honesty of politicians (WB,
control of corruption).
Trust
in
structures
of
institutional
governance
providing information (e.g.,
land register, government
agencies).
Trust
in
structures
policy for SD.
government
implementing
WB indicators concern voice
and accountability, as well as
rule of law – institutional
equilibrium as a condition for
institutional strength and
good governance.
Trust
in
civil
society
organisations, associations,
NGOs, media, etc.
Trust in science.
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Trust
in
and
satisfactio
n
with
formal
institution
s
Mentality,
including
xenophobia, nationalism,
corruption,
nepotism,
willingness
to
compromise
(WB,
control of corruption).
Satisfaction
with
/ Creates a basis for
acceptance of existing (dis)obedience of existing
laws and regulations.
formal rules.
Mentality
and
values
concerning lying and
cheating, corruption, etc.
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Mental
NA
models,
value
systems and
paradigms
determining
priorities in
sustainable
development
Priorities among the population Priorities
determine
the
Priorities of strong stakeholders direction
and
speed
of
Priorities of stakeholders with institutional change for SD.
vested interests.
“Percentage of people who say
they have enough (Meadows,
1998, 20),” reflecting priorities
concerning growth.
Subjective
indicators
of
happiness,
well-being,
satisfaction,
etc.
(see
Constanza et al., 2008), as they
show
people’s
priorities
(Diener and Suh, 1999), as well
as the subjective need for
improvement in quality of life.
Propensity to lie and cheat
Number
and
strength
of
dangerous
stakeholders
questioning the existing system
(related to political stability).
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