Optimal Versus Sustainable Degrowth Policies
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.02.001
Abstract: This paper introduces a natural resource and pollution in a Ramsey growth model which relies on the postulates of ecological economics. It studies the impact of voluntary degrowth policies on production and welfare. The instrument… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth; optimal versus; sustainable degrowth; degrowth policies ... See more keywords
Complementarity between the EJ movement and degrowth on the European semiperiphery: An empirical study
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.006
Abstract: Abstract Inspired by the thesis that an alliance between degrowth and environmental justice (EJ) movements is essential (Akbulut et al., this issue), this paper presents the findings of empirical research concerning the pitfalls and possibilities… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth; movement degrowth; movement; complementarity movement ... See more keywords
A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.023
Abstract: Degrowth and environmental justice movements share overarching aims of sustainability and justice and pursue them through radical social change and resistances. Both movements are diverse and comprised of groups that originate and operate in different… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth; justice; environmental justice; metabolic perspective ... See more keywords
The New Rural Reconstruction Movement: A Chinese degrowth style movement?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.03.024
Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates a grassroots Chinese movement called the New Rural Reconstruction Movement (NRRM). Drawing on field visits, surveys, interviews and social media posts regarding a NRRM project and relevant literature I link the… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth; movement; rural reconstruction; reconstruction movement ... See more keywords
Environmental justice, degrowth and post-capitalist futures
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.05.014
Abstract: Abstract Struggles for Environmental Justice, more widespread in the global South, are often framed as traditional societies defending “old ways of life”; while degrowth, a relatively new movement in the global North is seen as… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth; environmental justice; post; post capitalist ... See more keywords
Challenges for the degrowth transition: The debate about wellbeing
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DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2018.09.002
Abstract: Abstract Degrowth scholars and activists have convincingly argued that degrowth in developed nations will need to be part of a global effort to tackle climate change, and to preserve the conditions for future generations’ basic… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth; debate; challenges degrowth; transition ... See more keywords
Diverging pathways to overcoming the environmental crisis: A critique of eco-modernism from a technology assessment perspective
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.212
Abstract: Abstract The current controversies on “sustainable growth”, “green growth” and “degrowth” cover many issues in the relations between human behavior, societal regulation and technology in face of the need to overcome the environmental crisis. The… read more here.
Keywords: technology assessment; degrowth; technology; environmental crisis ... See more keywords
The convergence of digital commons with local manufacturing from a degrowth perspective: Two illustrative cases
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.077
Abstract: Abstract The emerging discussion about the sustainability potential of distributed production is the starting point for this paper. The focus is on the “design global, manufacture local” model. This model builds on the conjunction of… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth; production; digital commons; model ... See more keywords
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth
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DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102404
Abstract: As degrowth ideas speed their way into social movements and academic research, they have encountered some interesting critiques. In a recent contribution to this Virtual Forum, Huber (2021) dismissed degrowth as a preoccupation of middle-class… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth; growth; appropriation; anti colonial ... See more keywords
Degrowth and the Global South? How Institutionalism can Complement a Timely Discourse on Ecologically Sustainable Development in an Unequal World
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2023.2201640
Abstract: Abstract The goal of this article is twofold: first, it assesses the current state of collaboration between institutionalist economics and the academic degrowth discourse on the topic of global inequalities. Since a systematic literature review… read more here.
Keywords: degrowth discourse; degrowth; global south; degrowth global ... See more keywords
On education and degrowth
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DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2025.2475957
Abstract: Abstract This article addresses the significance of degrowth for education as a social institution and field of practice in the context of the climate crisis and need to develop a powerful climate justice movement. Drawing… read more here.
Keywords: education; degrowth; degrowth education; climate crisis ... See more keywords