Sufficiency : From Growth and Overshoot to Enoughness / edited by Toni Ruuska and Tina Nyfors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nyfors, editor.

Ruuska, Toni, editor.

Series:

International Comparative Social Studies ; 62.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

International Comparative Social Studies ; 62

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology.

Critical Social Sciences.

Earth sciences.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

From Growth and Overshoot to Enoughness

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We inhabit a world of human-induced ecological overshoot. However, the ongoing ecological crisis has not been caused equally by all humans, due to the nature of the growth-driven world economy. Whereas the I=PAT equation can be considered a useful tool to assess the human-induced impacts on the environment, we argue that because of the prevailing socio-economic inequality, power imbalance, and differences in environmental footprints, primary attention should be given to the factors of affluence (A) and technology (T), as fundamental causes of the overshoot, and only after this, to population (P). In the search for a meaningful ethos to guide our inquiry in the world of growth and overshoot, we propose applying the humble concept of sufficiency: the idea of ‘enoughness’. Accordingly, in this book, we explore what sufficiency could mean for affluence, technology, and population. Contributors are: Karl Bonnedahl, Michel Bourban, Philip Cafaro, Pasi Heikkurinen, Mikko Jalas, Jessica Jungell-Michelsson, Lassi Linnanen, J. Mohorcich, Iana Nesterova, Tina Nyfors, Thomas Princen, Toni Ruuska, Joonas Uotinen, and Tere Vadén.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Informations

Title Page

Copyrights Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

PART 1: Setting the Stage

1 Introduction: Sufficiency in the Time of Growth and Overshoot

2 Relational Sufficiency: an Essay on an Idea, a Principle, an Imperative

3 The Missing Activities in the IPAT Equation

PART 2: Sufficiency in Affluence

4 From Overconsumption to Respecting Planetary Boundaries

5 Affluence at the Expense of Others: from the Hegemony of Capitalism to Degrowth Transitions

6 A Business of Deep Transformations Is a Business of Sufficiency

PART 3: Sufficiency in Technology

7 Getting Our Bearings after Oil: Technology, Sufficiency and Types of Knowledge

8 Social Organization as Transformative Technology: from Demand-Driven Growth

9 Human-Powered Transit, Energy, and the Sufficiency of Slow Travel

PART 4: Sufficiency in Population

10 Taking Population Seriously in the IPAT Equation: Ethical and Political Implications

11 Sufficient Population? Checklist for a More Proper Discourse on the Degrowth of Human Numbers

12 Too Many People: Applying IPAT in an Overpopulated World

13 Conclusion: Sufficiency-Driven Change

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74640-4

9789004746404

OCLC:

1559919877

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004746404 DOI