Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 148, Issue -, Pages 751-759Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.058
Keywords
Cradle to cradle; Human nature; Sustainable production; Sustainability; Universals
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Sustainable production is often limited by structural factors such as industrial development, neoliberal democracy, growing population and globalization of consumer culture. Drawing on the work of some theorists linking unsustainability to universal psychological propensities, this article discusses sustainable production in relation to human nature. Human nature is understood here as complex cross-cultural and historically consistent psychological traits or universal physiological predispositions that result in the largely shared repertoire of human behavior. It is posited here that these traits, when combined with specific conditions of industrial development result in unsustainable behaviors. This article explores the relationship between human population and sustainability, human nature and culture as well as human nature and environment, and between human nature and sustainability. Recommendations focus on how sustainability efforts can take advantage of some of our natural tendencies, and mitigate others in order to provide strategic solutions to unsustainable practices. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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