Degrowth: Between a scientific concept and a slogan for a social movement

Handbook of Ecological Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 176-200

  Petridis, Panos ^a   Muraca, Barbara ^b   Kallis, Giorgos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781783471416.00012     Document Type: Chapter

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