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Anna Kirkland - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Environmental Account of obesity a case for feminist skepticism
Why Food Matters, 2021Co-Authors: Anna KirklandAbstract:There is an emerging consensus among public health advocates that combating obesity is best done by restructuring the environment rather than by stigmatizing individuals. Although feminist scholars have not been major participants in debates over antiobesity policy, recently there has been a move toward adopting the Environmental Account of obesity as a feminist solution because of its potential to respond to health inequalities along race, class, and gender lines. This article aims to trouble the embrace of the Environmental approach by feminist scholars, however, and to resurrect and redirect feminist criticism toward attendant problems of moralism, backlash, and the surveillance and rehabilitation of poor women of color. Despite its overwhelming popularity among policy elites and health researchers, I argue that the Environmental Account of obesity is not likely to promote structural change and broad redistributions. Rather it makes problematic assumptions about the relationship between health and fat and about the efficacy of intervention strategies, masks moralism with health discourse, and legitimizes punitive, ineffective, and patronizing interventions.
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the Environmental Account to obesity a case for feminist skepticism
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: Anna KirklandAbstract:There is an emerging consensus among public health advocates that combating obesity is best done by restructuring the environment rather than by stigmatizing individuals. This paper aims to trouble the embrace of the Environmental approach, however, and to resurrect and redirect criticism toward attendant problems of moralism, backlash, and the surveillance and rehabilitation of poor women of color. Despite its overwhelming popularity among policy elites and health researchers, I argue that the Environmental Account of obesity does not really end up promoting structural change and broad redistributions. Rather it makes problematic assumptions about the relationship between health and fat and the efficacy of intervention strategies, masks moralism with health discourse, and legitimizes punitive, ineffective, and patronizing interventions.
Viveka Palm - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Environmental pressures from swedish consumption a hybrid multi regional input output approach
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019Co-Authors: Viveka Palm, Richard Wood, Marten Berglund, Elena Dawkins, Goran Finnveden, Sarah Schmidt, Nancy SteinbachAbstract:Abstract Sweden has a policy goal of solving major Environmental problems in Sweden within a generation, without increasing Environmental or health problems in other countries. Following up this goal requires indicators for domestic and external footprints of Swedish consumption. This paper presents such macro-level indicators for the years 2008–2014. The new indicators are consistent with Swedish statistics from the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts. They combine a multi-regional input-output (MRIO) database, to capture the external components of Sweden's consumption, with national input-output, trade and Environmental statistics. The hybrid MRIO-Sweden model provides a comprehensive Environmental Account for follow-up of the Generational Goal. This paper presents impacts from household consumption, government consumption and capital formation, covering emissions of greenhouse gases, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5), land use, materials consumption, and blue water consumption. Except for land use, the majority (60% or more) of the Environmental pressures due to consumption occurred outside Sweden in 2014; more than 90% of sulphur emissions and more than 80% of the water use fell abroad. The Environmental pressures from consumption decreased over this period for all indicators (except materials consumption). This suggests an absolute decoupling between Environmental pressure due to consumption and economic growth, which rose over the period. It is, however, too early to determine whether this is a genuine trend or a temporary stabilisation.
Nancy Steinbach - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Environmental pressures from swedish consumption a hybrid multi regional input output approach
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019Co-Authors: Viveka Palm, Richard Wood, Marten Berglund, Elena Dawkins, Goran Finnveden, Sarah Schmidt, Nancy SteinbachAbstract:Abstract Sweden has a policy goal of solving major Environmental problems in Sweden within a generation, without increasing Environmental or health problems in other countries. Following up this goal requires indicators for domestic and external footprints of Swedish consumption. This paper presents such macro-level indicators for the years 2008–2014. The new indicators are consistent with Swedish statistics from the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts. They combine a multi-regional input-output (MRIO) database, to capture the external components of Sweden's consumption, with national input-output, trade and Environmental statistics. The hybrid MRIO-Sweden model provides a comprehensive Environmental Account for follow-up of the Generational Goal. This paper presents impacts from household consumption, government consumption and capital formation, covering emissions of greenhouse gases, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5), land use, materials consumption, and blue water consumption. Except for land use, the majority (60% or more) of the Environmental pressures due to consumption occurred outside Sweden in 2014; more than 90% of sulphur emissions and more than 80% of the water use fell abroad. The Environmental pressures from consumption decreased over this period for all indicators (except materials consumption). This suggests an absolute decoupling between Environmental pressure due to consumption and economic growth, which rose over the period. It is, however, too early to determine whether this is a genuine trend or a temporary stabilisation.
Elena Dawkins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Environmental pressures from swedish consumption a hybrid multi regional input output approach
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019Co-Authors: Viveka Palm, Richard Wood, Marten Berglund, Elena Dawkins, Goran Finnveden, Sarah Schmidt, Nancy SteinbachAbstract:Abstract Sweden has a policy goal of solving major Environmental problems in Sweden within a generation, without increasing Environmental or health problems in other countries. Following up this goal requires indicators for domestic and external footprints of Swedish consumption. This paper presents such macro-level indicators for the years 2008–2014. The new indicators are consistent with Swedish statistics from the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts. They combine a multi-regional input-output (MRIO) database, to capture the external components of Sweden's consumption, with national input-output, trade and Environmental statistics. The hybrid MRIO-Sweden model provides a comprehensive Environmental Account for follow-up of the Generational Goal. This paper presents impacts from household consumption, government consumption and capital formation, covering emissions of greenhouse gases, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5), land use, materials consumption, and blue water consumption. Except for land use, the majority (60% or more) of the Environmental pressures due to consumption occurred outside Sweden in 2014; more than 90% of sulphur emissions and more than 80% of the water use fell abroad. The Environmental pressures from consumption decreased over this period for all indicators (except materials consumption). This suggests an absolute decoupling between Environmental pressure due to consumption and economic growth, which rose over the period. It is, however, too early to determine whether this is a genuine trend or a temporary stabilisation.
Halima Oluwaseyi Arikewuyo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A drain or drench on biocapacity? Environmental Account of fertility, marriage, and ICT in the USA and Canada.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019Co-Authors: Andrew Adewale Alola, Abdugaffar Olawale Arikewuyo, Bahire Efe Özad, Uju Violet Alola, Halima Oluwaseyi ArikewuyoAbstract:In either case of ecological and biocapacity surplus or deficit, the precautionary effort toward optimizing the natural capital posits a potential framework for Environmental sustainability. In studying the Environmental Account of fertility, marriage, and technological advancement in the USA and Canada, the autoregressive distributed lad-bound testing is employed over the experimental period 1990-2014. Importantly, the study revealed that the interaction of fertility and marriage exerts a significant and negative impact of biocapacity in both the USA and Canada and in short run and long run. Moreover, while the impact of energy use in both countries is significant and positive in both the short and long run, the magnitude of the impact is almost negligible. Similarly, an improvement in technological advancement in the countries is empirically observed to cause a decline in the biocapacity in both the long and short term. These posit that both energy use and technological advancement in Canada and the USA do not necessarily improve the productive capacity of the countries ecosystems. In general, the study provides policy frameworks for stakeholders toward addressing the Environmental peculiarity of the USA (a biocapacity debtor) and Canada (a biocapacity creditor).