The Logic of Sufficiency

By Thomas E. Princen. 2005

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Strong sustainable consumption governance – precondition for a degrowth path? (2013, background): “Princen argues that the idea of sufficiency can be an organising principle for society (Princen, 2005) and thus comes close to a degrowth approach.”
Environment versus growth — A criticism of "degrowth" and a plea for "a-growth" (2011, background): “Such a strategy is then hoped to translate into less resource use and less pollution (Princen, 2005; Alcott, 2008).”
Circles, spirals, pyramids and cubes: why the circular economy cannot work (2018, unknown): “Princen (2005) also advocates sufficiency.”
The environmental efficiency of well-being: A cross-national analysis (2011, background): “Sufficiency ‘‘is the sense that, as one does more and more of an activity, there can be enough and there can be too much’’ (Princen, 2005, p. 6).”
A Transition to Which Bioeconomy? An Exploration of Diverging Techno-Political Choices (2017, background): “Thus, the organic industry’s allusion to sufficiency in this context seems to be more of a strategic-rhetoric nature than of a substantial kind, for sufficiency taken seriously necessarily involves reductions of per capita demand—it means producing and consuming less [45].”
Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism (2017, background): “In a forest common (for this and many other traditional commons examples, see Princen 2005; Deb 2009), in order to share the wood of a forest for construction or to burn it to create heat in the houses of a town, it is necessary to share not only the trees but also the logs, which obviously…”
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions (2015, background): “a shift towards frugality, thrift, sufficiency, and simplicity (Maniates, 2002; Princen, 2005; Alcott, 2007), a shift from ‘over-consumption’ to ‘less consumption’ and ‘down-shifting’ (Hamilton and Denniss, 2005), or a shift from conspicuous consumption of status goods to greater emphasis on ‘meanin”
Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world (2016, background): “Reisch & Thøgersen, 2015; Shove, 2014), and why there is still a notable silence on the key issue of reducing absolute levels of consumption (Princen, 2005).”
How to deal with the rebound effect? A policy-oriented approach (2016, background): “Autonomous frugal behaviour is based on the principle of sufficiency, which relies upon the notions of restraint and moderation of individual consumption (Princen, 2005).”
Two types of ‘enough’: sufficiency as minimum and maximum (2016, background): “The idea of reducing consumption and changing lifestyles is often referred to with the term ‘sufficiency’ in the environmental discourse (e.g. Linz et al. 2002, Princen 2005, Stengel 2011).”
The future of energy supply: Challenges and opportunities. (2007, unknown): “[60] T.”