TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-growth
T2 - the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
AU - Kallis, Giorgos
AU - Hickel, Jason
AU - O'Neill, Daniel W.
AU - Jackson, Tim
AU - Victor, Peter A.
AU - Raworth, Kate
AU - Schor, Juliet B.
AU - Steinberger, Julia K.
AU - Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
PY - 2025/1
Y1 - 2025/1
N2 - There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing. Despite recent advances in post-growth research, important questions remain, such as the politics of transition, and transformations in the relationship between the Global North and the Global South.
AB - There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing. Despite recent advances in post-growth research, important questions remain, such as the politics of transition, and transformations in the relationship between the Global North and the Global South.
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U2 - 10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00310-3
DO - 10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00310-3
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85215438006
SN - 2542-5196
VL - 9
SP - e62-e78
JO - The Lancet Planetary Health
JF - The Lancet Planetary Health
IS - 1
ER -