Sustainability

Prevailing frameworks to address planetary environmental challenges tend to focus on setting goals, targets, or boundaries to…

A planetary compact, focusing on the ratio between sustainable yield and human need, would encourage new partnerships between…

In my 2012 essay in The Futurist, I concluded that we might no longer be able to get out of the mess we were creating for…

SDG 17 offers an “enabling” blueprint for meeting ambitious targets, including measures to tackle poverty, hunger and climate…

Literature reviews are usually quite uncontroversial. But this is not the case of “Reviewing studies of degrowth: Are claims…

The increasing influence of Gen Z and millennials means businesses need to understand and incorporate their views to stay…

Why is South Sudan so dangerous for local aid workers? - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service…

While to reap the benefits of cosmolocal production strong political initiative and institutional innovations are needed, the…

Since alternatives are already partly there, in the everyday lives of all of us as well as in some institutions, we do not have…

In fact, the newer generation of degrowth-inspired studies have produced many useful insights as to how to socially prosper with…

We need constructive debates about food and farming so that we can find the best ideas for addressing the desperate business at…

In respect of the axial crisis of perception, journalism, in all its differentiated forms, I suggest, is not destined forever to…

Compared to continued use of coal and investment in carbon capture, the study shows much lower costs in scaling-up technologies…

In order to challenge existing systems or imagine a degrowth world, our solutions cannot be generated from within. We need a…

In fact, degrowth scholarship embraces technological change and efficiency improvements, to the extent (crucially) that these are…

Feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems are fundamental to the work of challenging growth-driven political…

Agroecological research has proven that agroecology and local food systems bring a range of goods, including making better use of…

Who is still actively defending green growth? There is Alessio Terzi, the author of Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save…

While the ecological movement has questioned the endless expansion of production, consumption and the consequent acceleration of…

When the IPCC mitigation report comments on the possibilities and likely effects of different emissions reduction strategies, it…