Mental Models of Sustainability: The Degrowth Doughnut Model. Domazet, M., Rilović, A., Ančić, B., Andersen, B., Richardson, L., Brajdić Vuković, M., Pungas, L., & Medak, T. Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, pages 276-286. Elsevier, 2020.
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Due to the concern that achieving human wellbeing through material development is“costing the Earth,”a mental modelwas developed to show in a single image the aspiration of social foundations of development to be achieved and biosphericboundaries not to be crossed. Anthromes analysis, combined with the cultural imperative of maintenance of globalsustainability through coordinated transformation of social metabolism and its environmental impact, makes nation statesthe immediately available units of sustainability modeling. In this century humans must meet their needs equitably withinthe biophysical means of the planet. A downscaling of planetary boundaries and social wellbeing foundations (thresholds) tonational level through calculations of the impacts and attainments of nation states’socioeconomic activities makes thedoughnut model a conceptual tool bringing sustainability closer to political a and organizational impact. To visualize thescale and the possible pathways for the transformation of national and global sociometabolic practices in the 21st centurywithin the“degrowth doughnut”includes the boundaries and thresholds in three domains: cultural, socioeconomic, andbiophysical. This way it aims to avoid the conceptually paralyzing trade-off between exclusively biophysical boundaries andexclusively social thresholds of the other doughnut models. Understanding that excesses and shortfalls of current andforeseeable socio-metabolic practices exist in cultural, socioeconomic, and biophysical aspects of nations’social metabolismallows us to build on nations’sustainability potentials. The aim of the model and its visual tool is to inform their populationsabout the direction and scale of the change strategies that they could adopt to contribute to the global effort of maintainingthe planetary population within the safe and just operating space of the doughnut under known advantages and constraintsof the 21st century.
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