Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 511-518

  Schneider, François ^a,b   Kallis, Giorgos ^a,b,c   Martinez Alier, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Research and Degrowth   (France)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crisis; Degrowth; Democracy; Ecological economics; Economic growth; Green new deal; Rebound effect; Voluntary simplicity; Well being

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; PUBLIC POLICY;

CRISIS; DEGROWTH; DEMOCRACY; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; GREEN NEW DEAL; REBOUND EFFECT; VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY; WELL BEING;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77649275978     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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