Degrowth in the Context of Sustainability Transitions: In Search for a Common Ground

Yaryna Khmara () and Jakub Kronenberg ()
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Yaryna Khmara: University of Lodz
Jakub Kronenberg: University of Lodz

No 1/2020, Lodz Economics Working Papers from University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study how sustainability transitions analytical framework can help to make other concepts of sustainable socio-economic development more specific and operational. Specifically, we investigate the linkages between sustainability transitions and degrowth. Both approaches to transitions – degrowth and sustainability transitions – are closely related. Ideologically, degrowth represents one of the most far-reaching forms of sustainability transitions, yet it would benefit from a more stringent conceptualization using the analytical framework of sustainability transitions. Based on a literature review of both degrowth and sustainability transitions, we distinguish several aspects which provide a common ground for both approaches. We apply some conceptual notions from sustainability transitions theory to describe the idea of a degrowth transition. Then, we analyse case studies of degrowth practices (mainly in an urban context), which demonstrate that they may be understood and managed as transition experiments.

Keywords: niche; regime; landscape; transition experiment; degrowth practices; transition management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q00 Q01 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01-27
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