Can sustainable development save mangroves?

The Earth is warming, ecosystems are being overexploited, oceans are being polluted, and thousands of species are going extinct—all fueled by the need for a permanent increase in production for more consumerism and development. “Business as usual” continues untouched, while increasing attention has...

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Autores: Ferreira, Alexander Cesar, Borges, Rebecca, Lacerda, Luiz Drude de
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/71367
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Palavra-chave:Conservation
Sustainable development
Economic development
Developmentalism
Life support ecosystems
Environmental inequity
Ecosystem collapse
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spelling Can sustainable development save mangroves?Ferreira, Alexander CesarBorges, RebeccaLacerda, Luiz Drude deConservationSustainable developmentEconomic developmentDevelopmentalismLife support ecosystemsEnvironmental inequityEcosystem collapseThe Earth is warming, ecosystems are being overexploited, oceans are being polluted, and thousands of species are going extinct—all fueled by the need for a permanent increase in production for more consumerism and development. “Business as usual” continues untouched, while increasing attention has been given to the “sustainable development” concept. Despite their importance as life supporting ecosystems, forests, oceans, and wetlands are being destroyed at an accelerating rate. The conservation and restoration of mangroves, for example, are also vital for the planet to face catastrophic global warming. Based on a non-systematic literature review, we address how true mangrove conservation is incompatible with so-called “sustainable development”. We turn to the urgent changes needed to avoid environmental and societal collapse, promoted by the Western economic development paradigm, and address why the sustainable development approach has failed to stop environmental degradation and protect resources for next generations. Proposed solutions involve the rejection of the capital-oriented, nature-predatory systems, degrowth, a deep transformation of our energy matrix, and a shift in our nutrition to lower levels of the food chain. These are based on a profound sense of responsibility over the planet, respecting all life forms, ecosystem dynamics, and life sustaining properties of the biosphere.MDPI202520252022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/71367http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14031263reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésSustainability. 2022 Feb;14(3):1263© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/713672026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Can sustainable development save mangroves?
title Can sustainable development save mangroves?
spellingShingle Can sustainable development save mangroves?
Ferreira, Alexander Cesar
Conservation
Sustainable development
Economic development
Developmentalism
Life support ecosystems
Environmental inequity
Ecosystem collapse
title_short Can sustainable development save mangroves?
title_full Can sustainable development save mangroves?
title_fullStr Can sustainable development save mangroves?
title_full_unstemmed Can sustainable development save mangroves?
title_sort Can sustainable development save mangroves?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ferreira, Alexander Cesar
Borges, Rebecca
Lacerda, Luiz Drude de
author Ferreira, Alexander Cesar
author_facet Ferreira, Alexander Cesar
Borges, Rebecca
Lacerda, Luiz Drude de
author_role author
author2 Borges, Rebecca
Lacerda, Luiz Drude de
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Conservation
Sustainable development
Economic development
Developmentalism
Life support ecosystems
Environmental inequity
Ecosystem collapse
topic Conservation
Sustainable development
Economic development
Developmentalism
Life support ecosystems
Environmental inequity
Ecosystem collapse
description The Earth is warming, ecosystems are being overexploited, oceans are being polluted, and thousands of species are going extinct—all fueled by the need for a permanent increase in production for more consumerism and development. “Business as usual” continues untouched, while increasing attention has been given to the “sustainable development” concept. Despite their importance as life supporting ecosystems, forests, oceans, and wetlands are being destroyed at an accelerating rate. The conservation and restoration of mangroves, for example, are also vital for the planet to face catastrophic global warming. Based on a non-systematic literature review, we address how true mangrove conservation is incompatible with so-called “sustainable development”. We turn to the urgent changes needed to avoid environmental and societal collapse, promoted by the Western economic development paradigm, and address why the sustainable development approach has failed to stop environmental degradation and protect resources for next generations. Proposed solutions involve the rejection of the capital-oriented, nature-predatory systems, degrowth, a deep transformation of our energy matrix, and a shift in our nutrition to lower levels of the food chain. These are based on a profound sense of responsibility over the planet, respecting all life forms, ecosystem dynamics, and life sustaining properties of the biosphere.
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