For over half a century, worldwide growth in affluence has continuously increased resource
use and pollutant emissions far more rapidly than these have been reduced through better …

Ecosystem services (ES) are the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that
directly or indirectly contribute to sustainable human wellbeing. The ecosystems that provide …

Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

This article investigates the effect of digitalization on energy consumption. Using an
analytical model, we investigate four effects:(1) direct effects from the production, usage and …

The IPCC warns that in order to keep global warming under 1.5°, global emissions must be
cut to zero by 2050. Policymakers and scholars debate how best to decarbonise the energy …

Winner of the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Capitalism is broken. The
relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial …

The notion of green growth has emerged as a dominant policy response to climate change
and ecological breakdown. Green growth theory asserts that continued economic expansion …

There are two sides to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which appear at risk of
contradiction. One calls for humanity to achieve “harmony with nature” and to protect the …

Abstract When the Human Development Index (HDI) was introduced in the 1990s, it was an
important step toward a more sensible measure of progress, one defined less by GDP …

Scholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge
critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical …