Degrowth - A Vocabulary for a New Era

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global.The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.More information at: vocabulary.degrowth.orgView the author spotlight featuring events and press related to degrowth at http://t.co/k9qbQpyuYp.

Product details

• Authors: Giacomo Alisa, D&apos, Giacomo D'Alisa, Giacomo Demaria D''''alisa, Federico Demaria, Gior Kallis
• Assisted by: Giacomo D'Alisa (Editor), Giacomo (Autonomous University of Barcelona D'Alisa (Editor), Federico Demaria (Editor), Federico (Autonomous University of Barcelona Demaria (Editor), Giorgos Kallis (Editor), Giorgos (Autonomous University of Barcelona) Kallis (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2014
• EAN: 9781138000773
• ISBN: 978-1-138-00077-3
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries