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Transforming Capitalism for Sustainable Development: Achieving the Vision of Three Zeros

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Commons as an empty signifier

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Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools

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Bridging Sectors and Disciplines to Gain a Critical Understanding of the Eco-Social Determinants of Health Inequities: The ESDHI-EU Conference

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Degrowth: a literature review and conceptualisation for sustainable marketing and consumer research

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Planning beyond growth: a case study of wellbeing-oriented planning in Wales

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Regeneration, sufficiency and degrowth: an integrative review of organising in a strong sustainability era

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Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited

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What's wrong with degrowth?

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Post-growth and the North-South divide: A stock-flow consistent scenario analysis

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Decarbonization potential and limits of e-fuel policies in the EU

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Considering alternatives to megaprojects for a sustainable future with degrowth principles

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Unequal exchange of labour and global justice: Principles for a fair international distribution of work

Godé, L., Vatn, A., & Gómez‐Baggethun, E. (2025) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108838 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy

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Views of EU citizens on economic growth and implications for climate policy

Savin, I. V., King, L. C., van den Bergh, J. C. J. M., Bouman, T., Ščasný, M., & Smith, E. K. (2026) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73323-6 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Has “Ecological Economics” betrayed its roots? Revealing its state, internal tensions and evolution through a multi-level and multi-scale bibliometric assessment

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Deliberating justice in food systems transformation pathways: a transdisciplinary approach applied in Finland

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Rethinking science-policy-practice interaction for transformative sustainability research and innovation in Europe

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“We need long-term thinking, predictability, and reliability.” Imagined futures of the German heating and housing transition

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Integrating post-growth economics into transformative adaptation: Property relations, capital, and democratic planning

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On ‘Doghnut Economics’: Reflections on its Implications and Relevant Policies

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Doughnut economics, degrowth and decoloniality. New directions for the Doughnut Portrait method

Chatterton, P., Büchs, M., Rawsthorne, C., Millward-Hopkins, J., & Solanki, A. (2026) · Local Environment · doi:10.1080/13549839.2026.2613377 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Post-growth Perspectives in HRI

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Exploring decarbonisation strategies in the Southern-European region of Catalonia through a multi-scenario assessment

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Life cycle assessment of coir geotextiles for sustainable infrastructure applications

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Leadership and inequality in latin american neurosurgery, 2000–2024: a bibliometric and geospatial study

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Decommodified energy: An anticapitalist energy justice agenda

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Evaluating the clinical and economic impact of ceramide-infused skin barriers in patients with Intestinal and urinary stomas: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Caruso, R., Belloni, S., Schiavone, B., Conte, G., Pasquale, C. D., Magon, A., Arrigoni, C., Candilio, G., Stanzione, F., Stievano, A., et al. (2025) · Clinical Therapeutics · doi:10.1016/j.clinthera.2025.02.001 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Parallels and divergences: a thematic reading of degrowth and shrinkage literatures

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Digital Technologies to Support Sustainable Consumption: An Overview of the Automotive Industry

Avasilcăi, S., Tudose, M. B., Gall, G. V., Grădinaru, A.-G., Rusu, B., & Avram, E. G. (2025) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su17157047 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Living Well Within Limits In Ten Stylised FactsPreprint

Steinberger, J. K., Antal, M., Baltruszewicz, M., Bayliss, K., Brand-Correa, L. I., Haines-Doran, T., Lamb, W. F., Mattioli, G., Millward-Hopkins, J., Oswald, Y., et al. (2025) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5687193 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Postdigital Commons

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Design global, manufacture local: operationalizing post-growth industrial policy through cosmolocalism

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Comment on ‘global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity’

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Income inequality and the trade-off between socio-economic and ecological goals

Flechtner, S., & Middelanis, M. (2026) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109100 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Can the EU Move ‘Beyond GDP’?

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MuSIASEM nexus analysis in post-industrial societies: Import dependence in Andorra

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Reclaiming glocal: Toward a post-extractivist, sovereign Chile beyond green growth

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Foresight for post-growth research: Integrating horizon scanning and scenario building for a sustainable future

Hideg, É., Márton, A., Csuport, Z., Ding, J., Fischer, M., Fodor, S., Gáspár, J., Hirvilammi, T., Kiss, G., Szathmári, A., et al. (2026) · Futures · doi:10.1016/j.futures.2026.103856 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Redesigning Success: How Post-Growth Economics Can Reshape the Games Industry

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A Multidimensional Index to Quantify Food Insecurity in Brazil (MUFII): An Approach Based on Sustainable Development Indicators

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Changing social relations of production is essential to advance a sustainability transformation

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Environmental Debt of Developed Countries

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Is global human well-being peaking?

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Building inequality: How construction materials shape service provision and socio-economic divides in Lima

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Reducing material requirements while decarbonising the Spanish economy: from a green growth to a postgrowth paradigm

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Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth: Identifying measurements that are fit for future

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Integrated mathematical modeling of cross-scale dynamics and equity constraints in water–energy–food systems

Rabbi, M. F. (2026) · Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy · doi:10.1007/s10098-026-03456-1 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Macro-financial risks, income distribution and socio-ecological transition in climate-energy models

Leoni, M. (2026) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108999 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Policymakers’ perceptions of the wellbeing economy: emerging patterns and trade-offs in implementation

Turrini, S., Biggeri, M., Schmidt, I., & Wilts, H. (2026) · Frontiers in Sustainability · doi:10.3389/frsus.2026.1772812 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Property‐Owning Democracy and the Socialization of Land

Whalen, N. (2026) · Journal of Applied Philosophy · doi:10.1002/japp.70081 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Loved keystone places: spatialising fundamental human needs for post-growth strategies in rural areas

Grosinger, J., Varvarousis, A., & Kallis, G. (2026) · Local Environment · doi:10.1080/13549839.2026.2644492 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Planetary boundaries and data in HCI

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Sufficiency Economy Philosophy as an ethical framework for sustainable development

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Urban community resilience at the food-tourism nexus: silences, paradoxes and opportunities

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Beyond emissions: Material-flow boundaries in California's transport transition scenarios

Tounsi, C. R. (2026) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109083 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Accommodating Degrowth? Structural Limits and Openings in WTO Agri-Food Trade Governance

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Armed ‘Green’ Disaster Capitalism: How the ‘Climate Conflict’ Narrative Sustains War and Socioecological Catastrophe

Dunlap, A., & Edwards, N. (2026) · Geopolitics · doi:10.1080/14650045.2026.2678945 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

On failure: the persistence of (ecological) modernism

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Sufficiency in principle and practice: An operational definition and typology

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From utopian impulse to urban engagement: The role of doughnut economics in shaping residents' participation in smart cities

Bassó, F., Lebrument, N., & Rochette, C. (2026) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109129 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Postgrowth and Wellbeing

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The wellbeing economy: Possibilities and limits in bringing sufficiency from the margins into the mainstream

Hayden, A., & Dasilva, C. (2022) · Frontiers in Sustainability · doi:10.3389/frsus.2022.966876 · Cited by 45 · see citing works

Resilient and Inclusive Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries

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Towards post-growth policymaking: Barriers and enablers for wellbeing economy and Doughnut economics government initiativesPreprint

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The wellbeing economy in practice: sustainable and inclusive growth? Or a post-growth breakthrough?

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