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• 2024

The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism. Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

By: Miriam Lang, Mary Ann Manahan, Breno Bringel

The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green New Deals across Europe and North America promise to reduce emissions while creating new jobs. But beneath the sustainability branding, these climate 'solutions' are leading to new en...

Scientific paper • 2024

Adaptation and operationalisation of sustainable degrowth for policy: Why we need to translate research papers into legislative drafts?

By: Andrzej Strzałkowski

Sustainable degrowth offers effective alternative strategies for tackling social and environmental problems such as climate crisis, resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and species hecatomb. However, it plays a marginal role in policy. Moreover, researchers need to operationalise many degrowth proposals in a more sufficient way for the policy. This mainly conceptual-methodological article con...

• 2024

Degrowth is everywhere

By: Adrien Plomteux

Seeing degrowth in the here and now gives hope to bring about a radically different future in which to live well and sustainably.

Scientific paper • 2024

Frugal abundance: Conceptualisation for degrowth

By: Adrien Plomteux

The concept of ‘frugal abundance’ has recently been mentioned in numerous degrowth publications and even presented as “the essence of degrowth” (Kallis et al., 2022, p.2). However, it has not yet been clearly conceptualised. The aim of this article is to start filling this gap. It provides substance to degrowth-compatible understandings of frugality and of abundance based on frugality, stressin...

• 2024

De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth

By: Lauren Eastwood, Kai Heron

Degrowth has emerged as one of the most exciting, and contested, fields of research into the drivers of global heating, ecological collapse, and economic injustice. The perspective is both a critique of existing growth-based models of development, which it argues have put humanity on a collision course with non-negotiable ecological limits, and a vision for a brighter future in which humans and...

• 2024

Das Ende der Erschöpfung: Wie wir eine Welt ohne Wachstum schaffen

By: Katharina Mau

Wir sind am Ende – also fangen wir anders an: Denken wir eine Welt ohne Wachstum! Die Klimakrise verändert die Welt unwiederbringlich. Unser Wirtschaftssystem gerät an seine Grenzen und die Ungleichheiten verstärken sich weiter. Unser Alltag, unser Weltbild und unser Vorstellungsvermögen werden von multiplen Krisen erschüttert. Woher also die Kraft nehmen, sich jetzt auch noch mit Wirtschaftst...

• 2024

Degrowth: An Experience of Being Finite

By: Pasi Heikkurinen

Degrowth is an experience. It is about fathoming that being-in-nature is finite. Experiencing finitude offers the long-awaited theoretical foundation for the degrowth movement. In this book, Pasi Heikkurinen argues that we must understand limits ‘from within’ in order to effectively reduce matter-energy throughput. He coins the metabolic cutback as the minimalist definition of degrowth. He als...

Scientific paper • 2024

Planning beyond growth: The case for economic democracy within ecological limits

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Elena Hofferberth, Cédric Durand

Degrowth and post-growth economics has emerged as a particularly fruitful approach in the debates about the reorientation of economies in the Global North towards environmental sustainability, equality, need satisfaction and democracy. This perspective promotes a planned reduction of energy and resource use in the Global North to limit environmental pressures and global inequalities and improvi...

• 2024

Foundations of social ecological economics. The fight for revolutionary change in economic thought

By: Clive Spash

This book explores radical dissent from orthodox mainstream economics, and sets out a theoretically grounded vision for the emerging paradigm of social ecological economics. At the heart of this paradigmatic shift lies an acknowledgement of the inextricable embeddedness of economies in biophysical reality and social structure. The struggle for this transformative vision unfolds through a cr...

Scientific paper • 2024

Pathways to decolonize North-South relations around energy transition

By: Miriam Lang

Climate coloniality manifests in the violent appropriation of territories in the Global South, including the extraction of strategic minerals such as copper and molybdenum to service energy transition and green growth for the major world powers. Peasant communities in the Intag river valley in Ecuador have been resisting large-scale mining for decades and, thus, have built up a local solidary e...

Scientific paper • 2024

Degrowth, global asymmetries, and ecosocial justice: Decolonial perspectives from Latin America

By: Miriam Lang

Degrowth literature predominantly states that degrowth strategies are meant from and for the Global North.While economic mainstream discourse suggests that the Global South still has to grow in terms of achievingdevelopment, degrowth proponents expect a reduction of material and energy throughput in the GlobalNorth to make ecological and conceptual space for the Global South to find its own pat...

Report • 2024

An unflinching claim to achieve postcapitalism : A way forward

By: Tejendra Pratap Gautam

A review of Nelson, A. (2022). Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy. Pluto Press.

Scientific paper • 2024

A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India

By: Sagari Ramdas, Michel Pimbert

The Andhra Pradesh Zero Budget Natural Farming project was implemented by India’s State of Andhra Pradesh in 2016 and renamed AP Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) in 2020. APCNF is recognised as a sucessful example of peasant-led agroecology by social movements, multilateral UN bodies, governments, and researchers. We offer more critical perspectives here, and argue that this agroecolog...

• 2024

A Successful Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Ecological Transition Policies in the EU Requires the European Commission to Broaden the Range of Its Modelling Tools

By: Camille Souffron, Pierre Jacques

This paper presents a nuanced exploration of the current economic models used by the European Commission, highlighting their required complements in the context of ecological transition policies in the European Union, such as the European Green Deal. It emphasises the need for and value of incorporating a broader range of complementary modelling tools and models that illuminate aspects often ab...

Scientific paper • 2024

15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review

By: Joe Ament, John-Oliver Engler, Max-Friedemann Kretschmer, Julius Rathgens, Thomas Huth, Henrik von Wehrden

In academia and political debates, the notions of ‘degrowth’ has gained traction since the dawn of the 21st century. While some uncertainty around its exact definition remains, research on degrowth revolves around the idea of reducing resource and energy throughput as a unifying theme. We employ a mixed-methods design to systematically review the scientific peer-reviewed English literature fr...

Scientific paper • 2024

Is Europe faring well with growth? Evidence from a welfare comparison in the EU-15 (1995–2018)

By: Brent Bleys, Jonas Van der Slycken

This paper is the first to calculate welfare, measured by the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), for the EU-15 countries in a standardized and comparable way. This paper does so by building on a case study for Belgium by Van der Slycken and Bleys (2023) that puts forward a “2.0 methodology” with two distinct ISEWs that deal with cross-time and cross-boundary issues. Both welfare and ...