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Bioeconomic Peace Research and Policy

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  • Brauer Jurgen

    (EBA Program, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)

  • McDougal Topher

    (Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA)

Abstract

We argue for viewing COVID-19 as an additional instance of bioeconomic interaction in an ongoing history of human relations with the rest of nature. We assert that COVID-19 and other increasingly frequent zoonotic pandemic diseases are a further example of global public bads (GPBs), which are collectively provoking the transition from an extensive to an intensive economic growth model characterized by the provision of corresponding global public goods (GPGs) and sigmoid growth. We describe how these dynamics map on to the classic production–predation dichotomy of peace and conflict economics and call for that dichotomy to be extended to the relationship between the human and nonhuman worlds. Finally, we argue that peace economists are particularly well-positioned to extend their research to diagnose human–nonhuman peace and conflict.

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  • Brauer Jurgen & McDougal Topher, 2020. "Bioeconomic Peace Research and Policy," Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 26(3), pages 1-09, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:pepspp:v:26:y:2020:i:3:p:09:n:8
    DOI: 10.1515/peps-2020-0034
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    Keywords

    ecoviolence; global public bads; global public goods; sigmoid growth; sustainability;
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    JEL classification:

    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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