Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 360-368

  Kallis, Giorgos ^a   March, Hug ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

economic growth; limits; scale; scarcity; utopias

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; ECONOMIC THEORY; RESOURCE SCARCITY;

EID: 84924258391     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.973803     Document Type: Article

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