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Role of GDP in the Sustainable Growth Era [PDF]
While there is a correlation between economic growth and the increase in living standards, economic theory is evident in the purpose of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measurement.
Katarina Gajdosova
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Becoming a post-growth planner [PDF]
Societal goals in housing, climate change, biodiversity, and circular economies confront spatial planning practice with multiple growth-related crises. For example, the supply of housing does not meet the market demand, but developing more housing reaches limits in terms of sustainability, available land, building materials, and CO2 emissions.
Lamker, Christian Wilhelm; id_orcid +1 more
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From creative destruction to convivial innovation. A post-growth perspective [PDF]
In this paper, we argue that the notion of Creative Destruction underpinning classical innovation management theory as well as having crystallised into technological determinism and productivism has come to a dead-end.
Pansera, Mario +8 more
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Wellbeing economy: An effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies?
The concept of ‘wellbeing economy’ (WE), that is, an economy that pursues human and eco‐ logical wellbeing instead of material growth, is gaining support amongst policymakers, busi‐ ness, and civil society. Over the past couple of years, several national
L. Fioramonti +13 more
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Nurturing the post-growth city
This chapter proposes that a post-growth approach to urban sustainability would benefit from extending its frame beyond urban contexts and connecting to the rural sphere. Acknowledging the linkage between capitalism’s environmental destructiveness and the imposed divide between the rural and the urban, this chapter asks how the urban/rural divide and ...
Savini, Federico +4 more
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Keynes as a post-growth economist [PDF]
Some key aspects of J.M. Keynes's economics are reassessed, showing how they fit with and can add to a modern post-growth economics. While Keynes favoured growing the economy in the short-run, he also saw the potential for a post-growth economy in the ...
Spencer, D.A.
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Awareness of climate change can prompt overwhelming emotions that threaten wellbeing such as anger, despair, and anxiety. Neoliberal views of human beings and their mental health strip the individual from their social and material context, driving ...
Amy Isham +3 more
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Scaling in a post-growth era: Learning from Social Agricultural Cooperatives
It has become normative in organization and management studies literature to consider scaling as a synonym for organizational growth. Scaling is typically understood as scaling-up.
LA Colombo, A. Bailey, M. Gomes
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The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth
Dr. Dan Durrant is a Lecturer in Infrastructure Planning at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning. In addition to research into housing and local economic development he has conducted research into a number of controversial mega infrastructure projects both ...
Daniel Durrant, C. Lamker, Y. Rydin
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Degrowth Perspective for Sustainability in Built Environments
Degrowth, as a social movement, a political project, and an academic paradigm, aims to find ways that can lead to harmonious co-existence between humanity and nature, between humans and non-humans, and within humanity, including oneself. Seen through the
Iana Nesterova
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