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Environmental debt refers to the accumulation of past environmental impact of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, owed to future generations (OECD 2018). Environmental cost accumulation represents an environmental debt. Environmental debt incurred by past generations indicates the responsibility of the current generations for environmental effects, which would have to be borne by future generations (Ljungman 1998).
Introduction
Firstly, the term “ecological debt” was defined in a paper in 1985, in a yellow booklet with the title “Women in Movement,” made by a German ecofeminist. Then the first papers in which scientists paid attention to the meaning of environmental debt and how to account it were “Miljoskulden” (Jernelöv 1993) and “Deuda ecologica” (Robleto and Marcelo 1992). Note that these two papers described two different points of view on environmental debts. Robleto and Marcelo’s report describes...
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Pimonenko, T., Chygryn, O. (2020). Approaches to Define Environmental Debt in the Framework of Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95726-5_64
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