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by Andrew L.Fanning, Daniel W.O’Neill and Milena Büchs The concept of provisioning systems has recently emerged as a promising way to understand the differences between levels of resource use and social outcomes observed across societies. However, the characteristics of provisioning systems remain poorly understood. Here,
by Luke Michael, Pro Bono Australia An Australian cooperative is developing a national civil society strategy to help build a more sustainable future and connect ordinary citizens with a shared vision for a better economy. The New Economy Network Australia (NENA) – a network of
This book arose from the 2019 Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics Conference held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in November 2019. Its focus is on finding solutions within ecological economics to help reach a sustainable future. Its seventeen chapters range from the future
An amazing new book, Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis, leads off the new Pluto Press FireWorks series. Read more and purchase a copy of the book at Pandemic Solidarity.
by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson, openDemocracy Degrowth stands for quality of life within planetary limits. This is the real opposite of capitalist growth. Degrowth is to growth as quality is to quantity, totally different. Growth is pure quantity: it is quality neutral. It is
by Lisa Cox, The Guardian Governments should use the urgency of the Covid-19 pandemic to address 10 potentially catastrophic threats to the survival of the human race, according to a report by a collection of prominent Australian researchers and public figures. A report by a
by Anitra Nelson and Vincent Liegey, The Ecologist Degrowth is often referred to as a ‘provocative slogan’, but it comprises a distinct line of thought that highlights the dynamic contradiction between productivist economic growth and Earth’s material limits. This new critical guide to degrowth argues that we can
by Luke Michael, Pro Bono Australia The finance sector can regain the nation’s trust if it protects Australians throughout the coronavirus pandemic and helps build a better society when the crisis ends, experts believe. COVID-19 has had a major impact on all aspects of Australian
by Brian Czech and Riccardo Mastini, Steady State Herald No later than the 1960s, scholars wrote in rigorous terms of the limits to economic growth. Europeans such as E.F. Schumacher, Americans including Herman Daly, and European-born Americans (most notably Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and Kenneth Boulding) set