No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

The prevailing model of endless economic growth is unsustainable. This book unpicks the idea of degrowth and explores alternative visions.

List of contents

Foreword by Peter A Victor
Introduction
1. The Growth Machine
2. Sources, sinks and services
3. Climate change and carbon footprints
4. Peak oil and tar sands
5. Profits, debt and the growth imperative
6. GDP and happiness
7. Life on the treadmill
8. On the road to degrowth
Resources and organisations
Index

About the author

Wayne Ellwood is former co-editor of New Internationalist magazine. He is author of the best-selling No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (over 50,000).

Summary

The prevailing model of endless economic growth is unsustainable. This book unpicks the idea of degrowth and explores alternative visions.

Product details

• Authors: Wayne Ellwood, Ellwood Wayne
• Assisted by: Chris Brazier (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2025
• EAN: 9781780261232
• ISBN: 978-1-78026-123-2
• Weight: 173 g
• Series: No-nonsense Guides; No-nonsense Guides
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political activism