Equity – the Bottleneck and the Opportunity

摘要: There is a widespread tendency for diverse uses of Nature, on scales from small and local to very large, become unsustainable. Once unsustainable, bringing use back sustainability keeping it sustainable then takes substantial effort tools appropriate the context use. This Perspective first asks why unsustainability so pervasive, when outcome that no user group has adopted as an objective, ways keep are known. I argue present evidence common factor underlying pervasiveness unsustainable Nature inequity in distribution benefits created those uses, with both wealthy “winners” distributional inequities disadvantaged poverty driving towards increasing unsustainability. Unless addressed issue its own right, there few or pathways medium long-term However if effectively, many available societies can select their cultural ecological contexts.