Handbook on growth and sustainability / edited by Peter A. Victor, Brett Dolter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Victor, Peter A., editor.

Dolter, Brett, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (592 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This Handbook assembles new contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees, Peter Bartelmus and Tim Jackson, who have helped define our understanding of growth and sustainability, as well as new thinking on topics such as degrowth, the debt-based financial system, cultural change, energy return on investment, shorter working hours and employment, and innovation and technology. Explorations of these issues can deepen our understanding of whether growth is sustainable and, in turn, whether a move away from growth can be sustained. With issues such as climate change looming large, our understanding of growth and sustainability is critical. This Handbook offers a broad range of perspectives that can help the reader decide: growth? Sustainability? Both? Or neither? Contributions are drawn from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, engineering and journalism, placing the work of established luminaries alongside emerging scholars who offer fresh new perspectives. A special section dedicated to exploring 'growth imperatives' that make transitioning away from economic growth difficult is provided, and the book includes a focus on cultural change and economic growth.

Contents:

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

From growth to sustainability / Brett Dolter and Peter A. Victor

Part I: What is Growth? What is Sustainability?. Growth, development and learning to live in a finite world / Peter Timmerman

Sustainable Development, limits and growth: reflections on the conundrum / James Meadowcroft

Sustainability metrics and their use / Peter Bartelmus

Part II: Can Growth Be Sustainable?. A new economics for our full world / Herman Daly

Ecological modernization and green growth: prospects and potential / Paul Ekins

Climate change, growth, and sustainability / Anders Hayden

Climage change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective / Filka Sekulova, Giorgos Kallis and Francois Schneider

Green agrowth: removing the GDP-growth constraint on human progress / Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh

Part III: Is the End of Growth Nigh? Sustainability Constraints on Growth. Innovation, technology, and economic growth / Matthias Ruth

Energy, economic growth and sustainability: an energy primer for the twenty-first century / Charles A.S. Hall

Shortcomings of a growth-driven food system / Michalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann

Land as a planetary boundary: a socioecological perspective / Helmut Haberl and Karl Heinz-Erb

Part IV: Are there Imperatives for Growth?. Prometheus unwound: shorter hours for sustainable degrowth / Andrea Levy

Is there a monetary growth imperative? / Sebastian Strunz, Bartosz Bartkowski and Harry Schindler

Thomas Piketty, growth distribution and the environment / Steven Pressman and Robert H. Scott, III

Growth and sustainability in a material world: the self-reinforcing cycle of population, GDP and resource use / Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Julia K. Steinberger

Part V: Is It Possible to Move Beyond Growth Culture?. Economics growth, biophysical limits and sustainability in economics textbooks since 1948 / Tom L. Green

From growth to sustainability: cultural transition beyond consumerist lifestyles / Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt

Navigating the Anthropocene: environmental politics and complexity in an era of limits / Stephen Quilley

Questioning sustainability in Latin America / María Páez Victor

Going Down? Human nature, growth, and (un)sustainability / William E. Rees

Beyond consumer capitalism: foundation for a sustainable prosperity / Tim Jackson

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78347-356-8