Kallis, G., Hickel, J., O'Neill, D.W. orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-8295 et al. (6 more authors) (2025) Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9 (1). e62-e78. ISSN: 2542-5196
Abstract
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2025 10:06 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2025 10:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00310-3 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:229286 |