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Mine Islar

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

Author

  • Mine Islar
  • Max Koch
  • Riya Raphael
  • Alexander Paulsson

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • School of Social Work
  • Social Policy and Sustainability
  • LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions
  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • CIRCLE
  • Organizational Studies
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2024-04-30

Language

English

Publication/Series

Global Sustainability

Volume

7

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Keywords

  • Sustainabiliity
  • Degrowth
  • Transformative solutions

Status

Published

Project

  • Postgrowth Welfare Systems
  • Economic Elites in the Climate Change Transformation: Practices, justifications and regulations of unsustainable lifestyles in Sweden

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2059-4798