ABSTRACT

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.

This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global.

The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.

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chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Degrowth

part 1|34 pages

Lines of thought

chapter 1|4 pages

Anti-Utilitarianism

chapter 2|4 pages

Bioeconomics

chapter 3|4 pages

Development, Critiques of

chapter 4|4 pages

Environmental Justice

chapter 6|4 pages

Metabolism, Societal

chapter 7|4 pages

Political Ecology

chapter 8|4 pages

Steady State Economics

part 2|88 pages

The core

chapter 9|4 pages

Autonomy

chapter 10|4 pages

Capitalism

chapter 11|4 pages

Care

chapter 12|4 pages

Commodification

chapter 13|4 pages

Commodity Frontiers

chapter 14|4 pages

Commons

chapter 15|4 pages

Conviviality

chapter 16|3 pages

Dematerialization

chapter 17|4 pages

Dépense

chapter 19|3 pages

Disaster, pedagogy of

chapter 20|3 pages

Entropy

chapter 21|3 pages

Emergy

chapter 22|6 pages

Gross domestic product

chapter 23|4 pages

Growth

chapter 24|4 pages

Happiness

chapter 25|4 pages

Imaginary, Decolonization of

chapter 26|4 pages

Jevons' Paradox (Rebound Effect)

chapter 27|4 pages

Neo-Malthusians

chapter 28|4 pages

Peak-oil

chapter 29|4 pages

Simplicity

chapter 30|4 pages

Social limits of growth

part 3|58 pages

The action

chapter 31|3 pages

Back-to-the-landers

chapter 32|3 pages

Basic and maximum income

chapter 33|3 pages

Community currencies

chapter 35|3 pages

Debt Audit

chapter 36|3 pages

Digital commons

chapter 37|3 pages

Disobedience

chapter 38|4 pages

Eco-communities

chapter 39|3 pages

Indignados (Occupy)

chapter 40|3 pages

Job guarantee

chapter 41|3 pages

Money, public

chapter 42|4 pages

New economy

chapter 43|3 pages

Nowtopians

chapter 44|4 pages

Post-normal science

chapter 45|3 pages

Unions

chapter 46|3 pages

Urban gardening

chapter 47|4 pages

Work sharing

part 4|22 pages

Alliances

chapter 48|4 pages

Buen Vivir

chapter 49|3 pages

Economy of permanence

chapter 50|4 pages

Feminist economics

chapter 51|3 pages

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