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Kallis, Giorgos, Kostakis, Vasilis, Lange, Steffen, Muraca, Barbara, Paulson, Susan, Schmelzer, Matthias·2018·Annual Review of Environment and Resources
DOI 10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941
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Scholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical political and economic reorganization leading to reduced resource and energy use. The degrowth hypothesis posits that such a trajectory of social transformation is necessary, desirable, and possible; the conditions of its realization require additional study. Research on degrowth has reinvigorated the limits to growth debate with critical examination of the historical, cultural, social, and political forces that have made economic growth a dominant objective. Here we review studies of economic stability in the absence of growth and of societies that have managed well without growth. We reflect on forms of technology and democracy com-patible with degrowth and discuss plausible openings for a degrowth transition. This dynamic and productive research agenda asks inconvenient questions that sustainability sciences can no longer afford to ignore.

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Authors
Kallis, G., Kostakis, V., Lange, S., Muraca, B., Paulson, S., & Schmelzer, M.
Affiliations
  • Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
  • Tallinn University of Technology (EE)
  • Institute for Ecological Economy Research (DE)
  • Oregon State University (US)
  • University of Florida (US)
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
ORCID
Venue
Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2018-10-17
Volume
43
Issue
1
Pages
291-316
ISSN
  • 1543-5938 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2050
DOI
10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941
OpenAlex
W2805150611
Cited by
723
References
138
Citations by year
2026: 117 · 2025: 110 · 2024: 148 · 2023: 100 · 2022: 76 · 2021: 80 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 12
FWCI
9.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
public-domain
Locations
Annual Review of Environment and Resources (publishedVersion, public-domain)
Funders
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MDM2015-0552)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Economic and Social Issues
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
Keywords
degrowth, economic growth, limits to growth, technology and democracy, social change

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