De Beukelaer (2026). Paper: Regulating Logistics: Compliance Capitalism Or Compliance Environmentalism?

Paper by MCST’s Expert Advisor and Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate, University of Melbourne Christiaan De Beukelaer.

Drawing on earth system science, doughnut economics, and critical perspectives on global trade, the article challenges conventional economic assumptions about limitless growth within finite systems. It explores the tensions between capitalist extraction and earth system stewardship, arguing that current compliance mechanisms often serve to incrementally improve fundamentally exploitative practices rather than transform the underlying environmental and social problems.