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Chapter 13
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption
and Production
Sustainable Community Development Through
Entrepreneurship: Corporate-Based Versus
Wellbeing-Centred Approaches to Responsible
Production
Isabel B. Franco and Lance Newey
Abstract This chapter aims to build new theory about the links between sustainable
community development, entrepreneurship, community wellbeing and interlinkages
between the sustainable development goal 12 (hereafter SDG 12), sustainable consumption and production, and the sustainable development goal 3 (hereafter SDG
3) – good health and wellbeing. New theory is needed because multidimensional
wellbeing has not been used as an outcome variable with which to assess relative
merits or understand the intricacies of how development approaches achieve synergies or fragmentation between the varying components of wellbeing. The research
presented here is based on a case study qualitative methodology strategy. Evidence
shows that resource-rich regions of Latin America are sites for sustainable community development and responsible production by international companies. Through a
comparative case study of two resource towns in Colombia – Antioquia and
Risaralda – we find contrasting approaches with different outcomes. A top-down
corporate-based approach to sustainable community development occurred in
Antioquia but bound the future of the community to resource extraction (mining) with
limited attention to other aspects of community wellbeing. This reduced the overall
resilience and wellbeing opportunities for the community. In Risaralda, by contrast, a
I. B. Franco (*)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, Japan
Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: connect@drisabelfranco.com
L. Newey
The University of Queensland, Business School, Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: l.newey@business.uq.edu.au
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
I. B. Franco et al. (eds.), Actioning the Global Goals for Local Impact, Science
for Sustainable Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9927-6_13
Chapter 13
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption
and Production
Sustainable Community Development Through
Entrepreneurship: Corporate-Based Versus
Wellbeing-Centred Approaches to Responsible
Production
Isabel B. Franco and Lance Newey
Abstract This chapter aims to build new theory about the links between sustainable
community development, entrepreneurship, community wellbeing and interlinkages
between the sustainable development goal 12 (hereafter SDG 12), sustainable consumption and production, and the sustainable development goal 3 (hereafter SDG
3) – good health and wellbeing. New theory is needed because multidimensional
wellbeing has not been used as an outcome variable with which to assess relative
merits or understand the intricacies of how development approaches achieve synergies or fragmentation between the varying components of wellbeing. The research
presented here is based on a case study qualitative methodology strategy. Evidence
shows that resource-rich regions of Latin America are sites for sustainable community development and responsible production by international companies. Through a
comparative case study of two resource towns in Colombia – Antioquia and
Risaralda – we find contrasting approaches with different outcomes. A top-down
corporate-based approach to sustainable community development occurred in
Antioquia but bound the future of the community to resource extraction (mining) with
limited attention to other aspects of community wellbeing. This reduced the overall
resilience and wellbeing opportunities for the community. In Risaralda, by contrast, a
I. B. Franco (*)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, Japan
Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: connect@drisabelfranco.com
L. Newey
The University of Queensland, Business School, Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: l.newey@business.uq.edu.au