How do COVID-19 lockdown practices relate to sustainable well-being? Lessons from Oslo and Geneva

IF 3.6 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy Pub Date : 2022-04-07 DOI:10.1080/15487733.2022.2051350
Orlane Moynat, Johannes Volden, M. Sahakian
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has led to changes in everyday lives through restrictions that resulted in lockdown practices in the home, whereby practices were reassessed, changed, renewed, or newly established. Based on a qualitative study of lockdown practices following the first wave of the pandemic in two European cities with high living standards, Oslo and Geneva, we studied how changes in practices led to need (non)satisfaction and (un)sustainable consumption, demonstrating the significance of social interactions in how practices were coordinated. We then highlight the practice elements that favored or impeded need satisfaction, recognizing what material arrangements, skills, and competencies were necessary. Finally, we discuss the “normative accountability” of lockdown practices in discourse, in that the mutual accountability of various practices during the lockdown revealed the need for coordination between people sharing the same space. We find that social interactions are critical toward understanding how the lockdown practices were coordinated in given space-time configurations. Need satisfaction required grappling with social differentiation, as people with strong social relations, generous indoor spaces, and access to outdoor natural environments experienced higher levels of well-being. This situation has implications for policy making in terms of how societies can be reorganized to ensure “sustainable well-being” as a normative aim.
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COVID-19封锁措施与可持续福祉有何关系?奥斯陆和日内瓦的经验教训
2019冠状病毒病(COVID-19)大流行通过限制导致家庭封锁措施,从而重新评估、改变、更新或新建立了日常生活的变化。在对奥斯陆和日内瓦这两个生活水平较高的欧洲城市第一波大流行后的封锁做法进行定性研究的基础上,我们研究了做法的变化如何导致需求(非)满足和(非)可持续消费,证明了社会互动在协调做法方面的重要性。然后,我们强调支持或阻碍需求满足的实践元素,认识到什么物质安排、技能和能力是必要的。最后,我们在话语中讨论了封锁实践的“规范性问责”,因为封锁期间各种实践的相互问责揭示了共享同一空间的人们之间需要协调。我们发现,社会互动对于理解在给定时空配置下如何协调封锁措施至关重要。满足需求需要克服社会差异,因为拥有强大的社会关系、宽敞的室内空间和室外自然环境的人体验到更高水平的幸福感。这种情况对如何重新组织社会以确保“可持续福祉”作为规范目标的政策制定产生了影响。
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy
Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development
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54
审稿时长
27 weeks
期刊介绍: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy is a refereed, open-access journal which recognizes that climate change and other socio-environmental challenges require significant transformation of existing systems of consumption and production. Complex and diverse arrays of societal factors and institutions will in coming decades need to reconfigure agro-food systems, implement renewable energy sources, and reinvent housing, modes of mobility, and lifestyles for the current century and beyond. These innovations will need to be formulated in ways that enhance global equity, reduce unequal access to resources, and enable all people on the planet to lead flourishing lives within biophysical constraints. The journal seeks to advance scientific and political perspectives and to cultivate transdisciplinary discussions involving researchers, policy makers, civic entrepreneurs, and others. The ultimate objective is to encourage the design and deployment of both local experiments and system innovations that contribute to a more sustainable future by empowering individuals and organizations and facilitating processes of social learning.
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