Growth, A-Growth or Degrowth to Stay within Planetary Boundaries?

By Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh, G. Kallis. 2012

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

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A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping (2020, background): “Alternatively, calls for degrowth and post-growth approaches are voiced (van den Bergh and Kallis 2012).”
The growth paradox, sustainable development, and business strategy (2021, background): “Such competencies include systems thinking, diversity management, anticipatory thinking, normative competencies, interpersonal skills, and strategic management competencies (Wesselink et al., 2015).”
Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals (2017, background): “This perspective is based on the fact that economic growth does not guarantee welfare and that it is very difficult to implement a sustainability transition in this context, since it often means sacrificing productivity (van den Bergh and Kallis, 2012).”
Sufficiency in energy scenario studies: Taking the potential benefits of lifestyle changes into account (2017, background): “…level of demand for goods and services – in this context specifically to the level of 1 Degrowth can be defined as “the intentional limiting and downscaling of the economy to make it consistent with biophysical boundaries”, (Bergh and Kallis, 2012). demand for energy-intensive goods and services.”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights (2020, background): “…usually did not explicitly argue in favor of reducing GDP growth; they rather questioned to what extent it would be possible to sustain GDP growth when aiming to reduce resource use or emissions and might hence be classified as ‘growth agnostic’, i.e. a-growth (van den Bergh and Kallis 2012).”