Handbook on Growth and Sustainability

Edited by Peter A. Victor and Brett Dolter

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Handbook assembles original contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees and Tim Jackson who have helped to define our understanding of growth and sustainability. The Handbook also presents new contributions 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 to decide: Growth? Sustainability? Both? Or neither?

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9781783473557
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 From growth to sustainability , pp 1-14

Brett Dolter and Peter A. Victor

Ch 2 Growth, development and learning to live in a finite world , pp 17-37

Peter Timmerman

Ch 3 Sustainable development, limits and growth: reflections on the conundrum , pp 38-58

James Meadowcroft

Ch 4 Sustainability metrics and their use , pp 59-82

Peter Bartelmus

Ch 5 A new economics for our full world , pp 85-106

Herman Daly

Ch 6 Ecological modernization and green growth: prospects and potential , pp 107-137

Paul Ekins

Ch 7 Climate change, growth, and sustainability , pp 138-159

Anders Hayden

Ch 8 Climate change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective , pp 160-180

Filka Sekulova, Giorgos Kallis and François Schneider

Ch 9 Green agrowth: removing the GDP-growth constraint on human progress , pp 181-210

Jeroen van den Bergh

Ch 10 Innovation, technology, and economic growth , pp 213-231

Matthias Ruth

Ch 11 Energy, economic growth and sustainability: an energy primer for the twenty-first century , pp 232-255

Charles A.S. Hall

Ch 12 Shortcomings of a growth-driven food system , pp 256-276

Michalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann

Ch 13 Land as a planetary boundary: a socioecological perspective , pp 277-300

Helmut Haberl and Karl-Heinz Erb

Ch 14 Prometheus unwound: shorter hours for sustainable degrowth , pp 303-325

Andrea Levy

Ch 15 Is there a monetary growth imperative? , pp 326-355

Sebastian Strunz, Bartosz Bartkowski and Harry Schindler

Ch 16 Thomas Piketty, growth, distribution and the environment , pp 356-371

Steven Pressman and Robert H. Scott

Ch 17 Growth and sustainability in a material world: the self-reinforcing cycle of population, GDP and resource use , pp 372-394

Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Julia K. Steinberger

Ch 18 Economic growth, biophysical limits and sustainability in economics textbooks since 1948 , pp 397-419

Tom L. Green

Ch 19 From growth to sustainability: cultural transition beyond consumerist lifestyles , pp 420-438

Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt

Ch 20 Navigating the Anthropocene: environmental politics and complexity in an era of limits , pp 439-470

Stephen Quilley

Ch 21 Questioning sustainability in Latin America , pp 471-497

María Páez Victor

Ch 22 Going down? Human nature, growth and (un)sustainability , pp 498-521

William E. Rees

Ch 23 Beyond consumer capitalism: foundations for a sustainable prosperity , pp 522-544

Tim Jackson

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