Leida Rijnhout, Thomas Schauer (Eds.)
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. But in a limited system, unlimited growth is impossible. It has to come to an end, the question is just when and how.
These topics were discussed at a workshop in the European Parliament in April 2009.
Leida Rijnhout, Thomas Schauer
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!]