ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Research shows that six of the nine identified planetary boundaries have already been crossed. For Earth to once again become a safe operating space for humanity, it is urgent to turn to a degrowth economy. Degrowth means a democratically planned reduction of energy and resource use designed to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human wellbeing. Although the idea of degrowth dates back to the 1970s, its development in scholarly work significantly gained traction during the 2010s, especially insofar as it was embedded in ecological economics discourse. Yet, degrowth as a research topic for legal scholars is barely nascent.…
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