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Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
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There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing. Despite recent advances in post-growth research, important questions remain, such as the politics of transition, and transformations in the relationship between the Global North and the Global South.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kallis, G., Hickel, J., O’Neill, D. W., Jackson, T., Victor, P. A., Raworth, K., Schor, J. B., Steinberger, J. K., & Ürge-Vorsatz, D.
- Affiliations
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- University of Leeds (GB)
- University of Surrey (GB)
- York University (CA)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Boston College (US)
- University of Lausanne (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Kallis, Giorgos
- ORCID
- Venue
- The Lancet Planetary Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2025-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- e62-e78
- ISSN
- 2542-5196 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4406641222
- Cited by
- 261
- References
- 182
- Citations by year
- 2026: 171 · 2025: 90
- FWCI
- 48.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2025-06-01)
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
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- The Lancet Planetary Health (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (submittedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Open Research (Auckland University of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/T014881/1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Keywords
- post-growth, well-being, planetary boundaries, economic growth, ecological macroeconomics, social welfare (welfare economics), resource consumption reduction, provisioning systems, economic transition, North-South relations
- MeSH terms
- Sustainable Development, Conservation of Natural Resources, Humans, Social Welfare, Economic Development
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