Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth

   Leida Rijnhout, Thomas Schauer (Eds.)


Degrowth Thomas Schauer

The global economy has been growing for decades with a high speed, largely ignoring the warnings of "The Limits to Growth", the first report to the Club of Rome by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers in 1972. But in a limited system, unlimited growth is impossible. It has to come to an end, the question is just when and how.

These was the topic which was discussed at a workshop in the European Parliament on April 16th, 2009, hosted by MEP Bart Staes and The Greens / European Free Alliance.

 
Contents


Preface

Joan Martinez Alier
Options for Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth

François Schneider
Sustainable Degrowth of Production and Consumption Capacities

Francine Mestrum
Degrowth or Reduction of the Ecological Footprint in Order to Fight Poverty

Stefan Giljum
Resource Use and Ecological Limits to Growth, Implications for De-Growth

Raoul Weiler
Limits to Waste and Sinks: De-Growth [De-Growth: an inconvenient truth!]

 
 
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