ABSTRACT

Natural science impact assessments of sustainability evidence more closely than social and business studies frameworks that the interdependent planetary boundary (PB) limits are being breached. This brings to attention environmental ecological assessments are better placed as the starting point to inform how human action or inaction as socio-economic behaviours can influence environmental management resilience, rather than the other way around. This study identifies food security as a grand challenge. A socio-ecological cosmopolitan resilience framework is conceptualised and applied to the commodity case of the avocado from Michoacán, Mexico. Social, economic and policy issues are identified and captured as multi-level influences. These impact environmental management as biodiversity, land usage and freshwater sustainability at individual, firm and governmental levels. A variety of recommended simultaneous changes that may advance system-wide sustainability are considered as cultural, moral and governance dimensions for socio-ecological resilience. Our framework is important as natural science and social norms must inform business practice at all levels for environmental sustainability.

摘要

可持续发展的自然科学影响评估比社会和商业研究框架更紧密地证明了相互依存的行星边界 (PB) 限制正在被打破。这引起了人们的注意，环境生态评估更适合作为起点，告知人类作为社会经济行为的作为或不作为如何影响环境管理弹性，而不是相反。这项研究将粮食安全视为一项重大挑战。将社会生态世界性复原力框架概念化并应用于墨西哥米却肯州鳄梨的商品案例。社会、经济和政策问题被确定和捕捉为多层次的影响。这些影响环境管理，如生物多样性、土地使用和个人淡水可持续性，企业和政府层面。各种可能促进全系统可持续性的建议同步变化被视为社会生态复原力的文化、道德和治理维度。我们的框架很重要，因为自然科学和社会规范必须为各级商业实践提供信息，以实现环境可持续性。