In defence of degrowth

By G. Kallis. 2011

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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The Circular Economy: Swings and Roundabouts? (2019, background): “Sustainable Development” (Kirchherr et al., 2017: 222) and is “an approach to [...] promote Sustainable Development” yet concurrently highlight the deficiency in comprehension between the two concepts(Korhonen et al., 2018b: 544). Most explicitly, Schroeder et al. (2018) suggest that the Circular Ec”
Local currencies for purposive degrowth? A quality check of some proposals for changing money-as-usual (2013, background): “Among the concrete actions endorsed by degrowth advocates is the creation of local currencies (Douthwaite, 2012, Kallis, 2011, Latouche, 2009: 49-50, Declaration Committee, 2010).”
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: A multi-national survey analysis in theoretical context (2012, positive): “…that, due to ecological overshoot (among other reasons, such as global population growth), the richest nations will need to move through a period of planned economic contraction before seeking to achieve a steady state economy (Latouche, 2009; Kallis, 2011; Alexander, 2011b, 2012a, forthcoming).”
Measuring progress in the degrowth transition to a steady state economy (2012, background): “In fact, Lawn (2006) suggests that Australia should have done exactly this in the mid-1970s when Fisherian income (which is related to the ISEW) peaked and then began to decline.”
Energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth: an ethical dilemma (2017, background): “Throughput, defined by Daly (1996) as the material and energy required by contemporary societies for the production, distribution, as well as, consumption of goods and assimilation of waste, has to be reduced in order for environmental degradation to be kept within specific limits and to start decel”
Social enterprises and non-market capitals: a path to degrowth? (2013, background): “While degrowth approaches probably will result in a GDP decline, the concept itself can be more usefully seen as an “umbrella keyword, a multi-faceted framework that gives purpose and connects different policies and citizens’ initiatives” (Kallis, 2011: 874).”
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions (2015, background): “…changes in capitalist logics, e.g. a shift from GDP growth towards greater happiness (Gough, 2010), replacing the growth focus with ‘de-growth’ (Kallis, 2011), placing greater emphasis on third sector and voluntary initiatives, a shift towards a ‘sharing economy’ (Belk, 2010) or a shift…”
Green growth or degrowth? Assessing the normative justifications for environmental sustainability and economic growth through critical social theory (2019, methodology): “The following analysis assumes that degrowth does not abandon its central goal of reducing material production and consumption (Kallis, 2011), keeping environmental preservation as a priority.”
Future green economies and regional development: a research agenda (2017, neutral): “Critiques of this approach to the green economy offer alternative pathways for economic development based around ideas of degrowth and post-growth (e.g., Kallis, 2011; Latouche, 2006, 2010).”
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature (2013, background): “By decreasing income and spending (income caps), it will also limit rebound effects [112,114].”
Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand? (2020, background): “, 2018), degrowth (Kallis, 2011; Kallis et al., 2018, 2012; Vandeventer et al., 2019; Weiss and Cattaneo, 2017), a-growth (van den Bergh, 2011; van den Bergh and Kallis, 2012), economies without growth (Jackson, 2016; Lange, 2018; Victor, 2019) and parts of the literature on a circular economy (Giam”
The contradiction of the sustainable development goals: Growth versus ecology on a finite planet (2019, background): “…countries can maintain and even improve their levels of human development while slowing their economic activity (e.g., Alier, 2009; Jackson, 2009; Kallis, 2011; Kallis, 2018; Victor, 2008), for example by redistributing existing income, investing in social services, shortening the working week,…”
Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals (2017, background): “For example, in the proposal to improve social security and investment in public goods (e.g. Borowy, 2013; Domènech et al., 2013; Kallis, 2011; Schneider et al., 2010) it is unclear which public goods the authors want to increase investment in.”