Editorial: Perspectives on energy futures, environment and wellbeing

“We tend to think of development, not in terms of evolution, but interms of creation. [...] If we talk of promoting development, whathave we in mind: goods or people?”(Schumaker, 1989)Schumaker (1989)raises doubts about whether the so-called soci-etal development is oriented to an individual and/or collective evolu-tion in its deeper meaning, or oriented to material creation. Develop-ment is a widely used term mostly without establishing a properlysemantic, usually to sustain the business-as-usual production-con-sumption behavior claimed as mandatory to societal development.However, the ultimate goal of such behavior is to keep with the ma-terial flow and increase the gross economic product rather than a de-velopment focused on evolution of human beings in their complexfeatures. Such a production-consumption pattern causes pressure onenergy and environmental security (as a provider of resources and re-ceiver of sub products for dilution), which deserves special attention bypolicy makers when promoting societal development. Currently, energypolicies are demanding a reduction in greenhouse gases and toxicemissions, because increased development based on resource ...

• Autor principal: Ulgiati, Sergio (author)
• Otros Autores: Agostinho, Feni (author), Liu, Gengyuan (author), Ripa, Maddalena (author), Ramos Martín, Jesús (author), Reddy, Sudhakara (author)
• Formato: article
• Publicado: 2019
• Materias: Energy futures; Environment; Wellbeing
• Acceso en línea: http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/310; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110890