Sustainability and the 'struggle for existence': The critical role of metaphor in society's metabolism

Environmental Values

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 289-316

  Jackson, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Darwin; Evolutionary psychology; Malthus; Struggle for existence; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DARWINIA;

EID: 0141528501     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096327103129341333     Document Type: Article

References (89)

1. Athanasiou, T. 1996. Slow Reckoning: The Ecology of a Divided Planet. London: Vintage Press.
2. Ayres, R.U. and L.W. Ayres 2002. A Handbook of Industrial Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
3. Ayres, R.U. and U. Simonis 1994. Industrial Metabolism: Restructuring for Sustainable Development. New York: United Nations University.
4. Beckerman, W. 1996. Small is Stupi: Blowing the Whistle on the Greens. London: Gerald Duckworth.
5. Bernardini, O. and R. Galli 1993. 'Dematerialisation: Longterm Trends in the Intensity of Use of Materials and Energy', Futures 25: 431-48.
6. Black, M. 1962. Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
7. Boltzmann, L. 1886. 'The Second Law of Thermodynamics', in L. Boltzmann, Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems, edited by B. McGuiness (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1974), pp. 13-32.
8. Boltzmann, L. 1900. 'The Principles of Mechanics', in L. Boltzmann, Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems, edited by B. McGuiness (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1974), pp. 129-152.
9. Boltzmann, L. 1905. 'On a Thesis of Schopenhauer's', in L. Boltzmann, Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems, edited by B. McGuiness (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1974), pp. 185-198.
10. Bowler, P.J. 1976. 'Malthus, Darwin, and the Concept of Struggle', J. Hist. Ideas, 37: 631-50.
11. Brown, L. (ed) 1990. State of the World: 1990. New York: Norton.
12. Brown, L. 1999. Beyond Malthus. London: Earthscan.
13. Campbell, D.T. 1965. 'Variation and Selective Retention in Sociocultural Evolution'. In H.R. Barringer, G. Blanksten and R. Mack (eds), Social Change in Developing Areas: A Reinterpretation of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge MA: Schenkman.
14. Capra, F. 1997. The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter. London: Flamingo.
15. Carson, R. 1962. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
16. Case-Winters, A. 1997. 'The Question of God in an Age of Science: Constructions of Reality and Ultimate Reality in Theology and Science', Zygon 32(3), 351-75.
17. Coveney, P. and R. Highfield 1991. The Arrow of Time. London: Flamingo.
18. Daly, H. 1973. Towards a Steady State Economy. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
19. Daly, H. 1996. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Boston: Beacon Press.
20. Darwin, E. 1800. Phytologia-or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. London: J. Johnson, p. 556, cited in Gale 1972, p. 325.
21. Darwin, E. 1803. The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society. London: J. Johnson, pp. 130-4, cited in Gale 1972, p. 325.
22. Darwin, C. 1859. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Reprinted London, Penguin Classics, 1985.
23. Darwin, C. 1896. The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex. Reprinted 1981, Princeton University Press.
24. Darwin, F. (ed.) 1897. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol. 1. New York: Appleton.
25. Dawkins, R. 1976. The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Dawkins, R. 2001. 'Sustainability Doesn't Come Naturally: A Darwinian Perspective on Values', The Values Platform for Sustainability Inaugural Lecture at the Royal Institution, 14 November. Fishguard, UK: The Environment Foundation.
27. Dennett, D. 1995, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
28. Douthwaite, R. 1992. The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet. Bideford, Devon: Green Books.
29. Ehrlich, P. 1968. The Population Bomb. New York: Ballantine.
30. Flamm, D. 1983. 'Ludwig Boltzmann and his Influence on Science', Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., 14(4): 255-77.
31. Friedman, M. 1953. Essays in Positivistic Economics. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
32. Gale, B. 1972. 'Darwin and the Concept of a Struggle: A Study of the Extrascientific Origins of Scientific Ideas', Isis, 63: 321-44.
33. Georgescu-Roegen, N. 1971. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
34. Gowdy, J. 1994. Coevolutionary Economics: The Economy, Society, and the Environment. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press.
35. Graedel, R. and D. Allenby. 1996. Industrial Ecology. AT&T Press.
36. Gumplowicz, L. 1898. Sociologie et Politique. Paris: Giard et Brière,cited in Hawkins 1995.
37. Gumplowicz, L. 1963 [1885]. Outlines of Sociology. New York: Paine-Whitman.
38. Harvey, D. 1974. 'Population, Resources and the Ideology of Science', Economic Geography, 50(3): 308-35.
39. Hawkins, M.J. 1995. 'The Struggle for Existence in 19th Century Social Theory: Three Case Studies', History of the Human Sciences, 8(3): 47-67.
40. Hirsch, F. 1977. Social Limits to Growth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
41. Hirshleifer, J. 1982. 'Evolutionary Models in Economics and Law', in R. Zerbe Jr. and P. Rubin (eds), Research in Law and Economics, vol. 4, pp. 1-60.
42. Hirshleifer, J. 1978. 'Natural Economy Versus Political Economy', Journal of Social and Biological Structure, 1: 319-37.
43. Hodgson, G. 1993. Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics. Cambridge: Polity Press.
44. Huxley, J. 1964. Essays of a Humanist. London: Penguin.
45. Jackson, T. 2000. 'The Unfinished Symphony: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Conception of Sustainable Development', International Journal of Sustainable Development, 3(3): 199-220.
46. Jackson, T. 1996. Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life. London: Routledge.
47. Jackson T. and R. Clift 1998. 'Where's the Profit in Industrial Ecology?' Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2(1):3-5.
48. Jackson, T., R. Costanza and W. Rees 1993. 'The Biophysical Economy: Aspects of the Interaction between Economy and Environment', Chapter 1 in T. Jackson (ed.), Clean Production Strategies: Developing Preventive Environmental Management in the Industrial Economy. Boca Raton, Florida: Lewis Publishers.
49. Joly, J. 1890. 'The Abundance of Life', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Dublin, vol VII, reprinted in Joly 1915, pp. 60-101.
50. Joly, J. 1915. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Essays. New York: Dutton.
51. Kevlar, D. 1985. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Usage of Human Heredity. London: Penguin.
52. Linnaeus, C. 170. Politia Naturae, cited in K. Hagberg,, Carl Linnaeu (London: Jonathan Cape, 1952).
53. Lotka, A. 1925. Elements of Mathematical Biology. Reprinted 1956, Dover Publications Inc, New York.
54. Lovins, A., H. Lovins and D. Korten 1999. Natural Capitalism. London: Earthscan.
55. McFague, S. 1982 Metaphorical Thinking, Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
56. McFague, S. 1987 Models of God: Theology for an Ecological Nuclear Age, Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
57. Malthus, T. 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr Godwin, M. Condorcet and Other Writers. London: J. Johnson.
58. Malthus, T. 1826. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; an Inquiry into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions. 6th Edition. London: Murray.
59. Malthus, T. 1970. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) and A Summary View of the Principle of Population (1830). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
60. Martinez-Alier, J. 1987. Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
61. Manier, E. 1978. The Young Darwin and his Cultural Circle: A Study of the Influences which Helped Shape the Language and Logic of the First Drafts of the Theory of Natural Selection. Dordrecht: Reidel.
62. Meadows, D.H., D.L. Meadows and W. Behrens III 1983. The Limits to Growth: A Report to the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. London: Pan.
63. Meadows, D.H., D.L. Meadows and J. Randers 1992. Beyond the Limits: Global Collapse or a Sustainable Society: The Sequel to Limits to Growth. London: Earthscan.
64. Moore, W. 1989. Schrödinger: Life and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
65. Morrison, R. 1999. The Spirit in the Gene: Humanity's Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
66. Nicolis, G. and I. Prigogine 1977. Self-organisation in Non-Equilibrium Systems. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
67. Norgaard, R.B. 1994. Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revisioning of the Future. London: Routledge.
68. Odum, E.P. 1983. Basic Ecology. New York: Saunders College Publishing
69. Pearce, D., A. Markandya, and E. Barbier 1989. Blueprint for a Green Economy. London: Earthscan.
70. Peltason, T. 1985. Reading 'In Memoriam'. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
71. Prigogine, I. and I. Stengers 1984. Order out of Chaos. London: Heinemann.
72. Ridley, M. 1994. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. London: Penguin Books.
73. Rorty, R. 1979. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
74. Roszak, T. 1992. The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology. New York: Touchstone.
75. Saether, A. 1993. 'Otto Diederich Lütken: 40 years before Malthus?', Population Studies, 47: 511-17.
76. Schrödinger, E. 1929. Sitzber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Phys. - Math. Kl., C-CII, cited in Moore 1989.
77. Schrodinger, E. 1992. What is Life?: with 'Mind and Matter' and 'Autobiographical Sketches'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Canto edition.
78. Schweber, S. 1977. 'The Origin of the "Origin" Revisited', J. Hist. Biol., 10: 229-316.
79. Shaw, George Bernard 1921. Back to Methuselah. London: Penguin Group.
80. Socolow, R., C. Andrews, F. Berkhout and V. Thomas. 1994. Industrial Ecology and Global Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
81. Söllner, F. 1997. 'A Reexamination of the Role of Thermodynamics for Environmental Economics'. Ecological Economics 2: 175-201.
82. Spencer, H, 1878. The Study of Sociology. 7th Edition. London: Kegan Paul.
83. Spencer, H., 1969 [1876-1896]. The Principles of Sociology, abridged edition. London: Macmillan.
84. Trainer, T. 1995. The Conserver Society. London: Zed Books.
85. Trainer, T. 1996. Towards a Sustainable Economy: The Need for Fundamental Change. Oxford: Jon Carpenter Publishing.
86. Vitousek, P., P. Ehrlich, A. Ehrlich and P. Matson 1986. 'Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis', Bioscience, 36: 368-73.
87. von Weizsäcker, E., A. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins 1997. Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use. London: Earthscan.
88. WCED 1987. Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
89. Young, R.M. 1969. 'Malthus and the Evolutionists: The Common Context of Biological and Social Theory', Past and Present, 43: 109-45.