¶ … Raworth's a Safe and Just Space for Humanity
Reading Response: Raworth, "A Safe and Just Space for Humanity"
Who should determine the dimensions and boundaries of an internationally agreed social foundation and an environmental ceiling, and how?
As Raworth states in the Executive summary to "A Safe and Just Space for Humanity, "human-rights advocates have long highlighted the imperative of ensuring every person's claim to life's essentials, while ecological economists have emphasized the need to situate the economy within environmental limits" (2012), and this dichotomy forms the basis of her visual framework for sustainable development. Raworth goes on to describe her doughnut-shaped framework as a fusion of the goals sought by both human-rights advocates and ecological economists, observing her creation to be "a closed system that is bounded by both human rights and environmental sustainability" before asserting that "the resulting space -- the doughnut -- is where inclusive and sustainable economic development takes place" (2012).
2. What are the implications of this framework for drawing up new global development goals beyond 2015, as part of the MDG and Rio+20 processes?
Raworth devotes the first section of her discussion paper to the concept of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the often convoluted processes used to allocate resources and address poverty on a geopolitical level. In the author's appraisal of the situation "any vision of sustainable development fit for the 21st century must recognize that eradicating poverty and achieving social justice...
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