Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales
Autor Wim Naudéen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 noi 2023
This book offers a thought provoking and unique perspective on the economic and ecological challenges faced by modern societies. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in environmental economics and economic policy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783031455810
ISBN-10: 3031455819
Pagini: 186
Ilustrații: XXI, 186 p. 21 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3031455819
Pagini: 186
Ilustrații: XXI, 186 p. 21 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
1. Introduction.- 2. The Malthusians and the Cornucopians.- 3. What to Do About the Detritovores?.- 4. Green Growth.- 5. The Degrowth Movement: A Radical Political Project.- 6. Living in a Degrowth World.- 7. Collapse.- 8. Conclusion.
Notă biografică
Wim Naudé is Visiting Professor at RWTH Aachen University and Fellow at the ASC, University of Leiden
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“This book addresses humanity’s fateful struggle with excessive success in a very deep and different manner. I have previously moved from being a cornucopian to a modified Malthusian but this book is now moving me towards the third possibility you discuss- collapse as a feature not a bug of complex society”.
- Christopher L. Magee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"This fascinating volume is an important contribution to the debate on the ultimate destiny of our civilization. It poses the provocative question whether a constructive collapse, rather than green growth or degrowth, could be the solution to the dangers caused by the increasing environmental footprint. It will be an inspirational source of thinking for all those interested in the future of mankind"
- Nicola Dimitri, University of Siena
It has been said that, in the light of ecological overshoot, that human civilization faces two future possibilities: a Great Decoupling or a Great Collapse. In this book, two distinct positions to achieve the Great Decoupling are critically evaluated: Green Growth and Degrowth. It is concluded that neither Green Growth nor Degrowth will be able to achieve the Great Decoupling. The possibility for society to collapse is then raised, with the potential for a civilizational rebound pondered. Whether collapse may be a feature, and not a bug, of the long-run evolution of complex civilization is discussed.
This book offers a thought provoking and unique perspective on the economic and ecological challenges faced by modern societies. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in environmental economics and economic policy.
Wim Naudé is Visiting Professor at RWTH Aachen University and Fellow at the ASC, University of Leiden.
- Christopher L. Magee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"This fascinating volume is an important contribution to the debate on the ultimate destiny of our civilization. It poses the provocative question whether a constructive collapse, rather than green growth or degrowth, could be the solution to the dangers caused by the increasing environmental footprint. It will be an inspirational source of thinking for all those interested in the future of mankind"
- Nicola Dimitri, University of Siena
It has been said that, in the light of ecological overshoot, that human civilization faces two future possibilities: a Great Decoupling or a Great Collapse. In this book, two distinct positions to achieve the Great Decoupling are critically evaluated: Green Growth and Degrowth. It is concluded that neither Green Growth nor Degrowth will be able to achieve the Great Decoupling. The possibility for society to collapse is then raised, with the potential for a civilizational rebound pondered. Whether collapse may be a feature, and not a bug, of the long-run evolution of complex civilization is discussed.
This book offers a thought provoking and unique perspective on the economic and ecological challenges faced by modern societies. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in environmental economics and economic policy.
Wim Naudé is Visiting Professor at RWTH Aachen University and Fellow at the ASC, University of Leiden.
Caracteristici
Provides a critical perspective on ideas of green growth and degrowth Explores the close relationship between environmental exhaustion and economic growth Discusses the potential for reshaping society and economics around environmental needs