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Degrowth: A Path to Transformative Solutions for Socio-Ecological Sustainability

Islar, Mine LU ; Koch, Max LU ; Raphael, Riya LU and Paulsson, Alexander LU (2024) In Global Sustainability
Abstract
This article highlights the potential of degrowth as a transformative approach that can expand capacities necessary for socio-ecological sustainability. By addressing economic growth as a fundamental driver of unsustainability, degrowth offers a concrete pathway towards achieving sustainable outcomes. It calls for sustainability scientists to explicitly consider the role of economic growth, aligning with recent scientific assessments that support a critical
stance on growth. While degrowth and sustainability share common goals such as respecting biocapacity and equitable distribution of ecological budgets, degrowth approaches differ by placing emphasis on national and local solutions and exploring aspects like technology, time, work,... (More)
This article highlights the potential of degrowth as a transformative approach that can expand capacities necessary for socio-ecological sustainability. By addressing economic growth as a fundamental driver of unsustainability, degrowth offers a concrete pathway towards achieving sustainable outcomes. It calls for sustainability scientists to explicitly consider the role of economic growth, aligning with recent scientific assessments that support a critical
stance on growth. While degrowth and sustainability share common goals such as respecting biocapacity and equitable distribution of ecological budgets, degrowth approaches differ by placing emphasis on national and local solutions and exploring aspects like technology, time, work, commodity, and property. Engaging with economic questions is crucial for sustainability science to maintain its transformative potential. Growth-critical perspectives like degrowth and post-growth have the potential to propel sustainability discourses into new,
more impactful realms of development. (Less)
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Sustainabiliity, Degrowth, Transformative solutions
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Global Sustainability
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Cambridge University Press
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ISSN
2059-4798
DOI
10.1017/sus.2024.13
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Postgrowth Welfare Systems
Economic Elites in the Climate Change Transformation: Practices, justifications and regulations of unsustainable lifestyles in Sweden
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English
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  title        = {{Degrowth: A Path to Transformative Solutions for Socio-Ecological Sustainability}},
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