Reflections on sustainability concepts: aloha ʻāina and the circular economy
| Autor: | Axel Tuma, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Keliʻiahonui Kotubetey, Sandra Boldoczki, Andrea Thorenz, Kanekoa Kukea-Shultz, Kawena Elkington |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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aloha ʻāina
020209 energy Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Indigenous Renewable energy sources 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering ddc:330 media_common.cataloged_instance GE1-350 Sociology Traditional knowledge Natural resource management European union 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Sustainable development sustainable development Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Circular economy circular economy Public relations sustainability Environmental sciences natural resource management Sustainability Industrial ecology indigenous knowledge business |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 5 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 2984, p 2984 (2021) |
| Popis: | The Circular Economy is gaining traction in the European Union and all over the world as a transition away from the extractive and exploitative linear economy. In Hawaiʻi, the cultural value of aloha ʻāina is a philosophy describing a set of values grounded in a relationship of kinship between people and the environment. Aloha ʻĀina structured centuries of sustainability and it has evolved over generations to frame community responses to crucial issues today, such as climate change, oligopolistic markets, and contemporary land management. This paper sits at the intersection of cross-disciplinary collaboration, sustainability, and sustainable development. Participative moderate observations and intentional cross-cultural exchanges of knowledge over five years between scholars and experts in the major fields of indigenous Hawaiian knowledge and industrial ecology inspired the concepts explored in this paper, which address the question of how aloha ʻāina and the Circular Economy can engage with each other in the collective effort to combat climate change, guide sustainable development efforts, and transition societies toward sustainability. Extensive literature reviews and insight gained through site visits to sustainability projects inform the discussion of best practices from opposite parts of the globe—Hawaiʻi and Germany—to put into conversation two worldviews and present resulting implications and lessons learned. Essential findings describe the benefits of knowledge exchange between members of global practitioner networks. By shifting expert and participant roles according to which projects are being observed, cross-cultural characteristics can be explored at a deeper level, which allow participants to employ best practices to their respective theories. The Circular Economy’s engagement with indigenous knowledge systems is an opportunity to ally and produce solutions to the challenges associated with changing the linear economy while addressing both environmental and social justice issues. |
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