Comments on: Material, social and theoretical aspects of Sustainable Development https://sustainabilityconference2012.weaconferences.net/papers/material-social-and-theoretical-aspects-of-sustainable-development/ 24th September to 21st October, 2012 Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: George Liodakis https://sustainabilityconference2012.weaconferences.net/papers/material-social-and-theoretical-aspects-of-sustainable-development/#comment-28 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:59:04 +0000 http://sustainabilityconference2012.worldeconomicsassociation.org/?post_type=paper&p=142#comment-28 In reply to Nandan Nawn.

Dear Nandan Nawn,
Thank you for your comments on my paper.

As for the possibilities of sustainability within a communist perspective, I hope to have the time in the near future to more adequately deal with this issue. But, of course, it is not a personal question, and I hope that a sufficiently powerful social movement of some sort will, sooner or later, put together relevant research and social experimentation to tackle this problem.

For the Cuban agro-ecological alternative, I agree with you that it has evolved under specific conditions and with some relevant limitations. I would think though that historical contingency has always played some role in socioeconomic and institutional change. Nonetheless, I would again agree with your hint. We do need to explore and more adequately elaborate on the (socialist/communist) organizational principles that would allow an ecologically compatible transformation more generally and as a conscious policy and free choice.

]]> By: Nandan Nawn https://sustainabilityconference2012.weaconferences.net/papers/material-social-and-theoretical-aspects-of-sustainable-development/#comment-27 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:19:32 +0000 http://sustainabilityconference2012.worldeconomicsassociation.org/?post_type=paper&p=142#comment-27 Thanks for the paper that has brought the usually neglected issues in the sustainability debate, and in particular the irreconcilable differences between methodological individualism and the collective/coordinated actions. The section that I have liked most is the sixth one, on metabolic rift; for the details. I understand that a few other sections are concise introduction for different chapters in your forthcoming book, and thus appearing somewhat disjoint at times.
I would like to see your work on the possibilities of sustainability in a communist regime. The agro-ecological alternative path that Cuba had to take has been one option, but for specific contexts and situations. At the same time, even emulating such a route elsewhere will cover a lot of road to sustainability.

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