Essays about: "degrowth"

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  1. 6. Simulating sustainable futures - Investigating the implications of CO2 emission caps on economic growth in the OECD

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Anja Sophia Theopold; Ulrika Ericson; [2023]
    Keywords : Economic growth; Climate change; Absolute caps on emissions; Technological change; OECD; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The matters of economic growth and climate change are both widely subjected to discussions and policymakers are under immense pressure to make decisions that enhance economic growth and stop climate change. Policies that ensure economic growth have traditionally had a negative impact on climate change and vice versa. READ MORE

  3. 7. "The crisis shows that degrowth is as necessary as it is possible" : Coalitions and policy change within Spanish tourism

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Amanda Wiberg; [2023]
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  4. 8. Green Greed A Poststructural Policy Analysis of “H&M Group Sustainability Performance Report 2020”

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Lisa Carlsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Capitalism; Circular Growth; Degrowth; Decoupling; Democratized fashion; Depoliticization; Ecomodernism; Green growth; Governmentality; Institutionalized knowledges; Neoliberalism; Poststructuralism; Power knowledge; Policy analysis; Social Constructivism; WPR approach; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how discursive formations of problem representations presented in the “H&M Group Sustainability Performance Report 2020” institutionalize and shape knowledge regarding strategies on combating climate change. The politics behind these formations are made visible by using Carol Bacchi’s Poststructural Policy Analysis What’s the problem represented to be?(WPR) as a methodological framework. READ MORE

  5. 9. Conviviality and Conscience: How Degrowth and Abolition Theory Critique and Re-envision Welfare States

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Author : Jillian Fields-Hirschler; [2023]
    Keywords : Abolition; Degrowth; Anti-capitalism; Post-growth; Welfare Critique; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abolition theory and degrowth theory address important issues in the social-political world. An emergent discipline (in academia), abolition theory carefully dissects the ideological and historical underpinnings of the current system of police and prisons in the United States. It offers a systematic critique of their impact. READ MORE

  6. 10. Growing to thrive or growing to die? Analysing high-school students’ perspectives on the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Ronja Karvinen; [2023]
    Keywords : Education for Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development; Degrowth; Ecological Modernization; Economic growth; Education; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : How and what we should teach children about sustainability, in relation to our current economic system, has become the cornerstone of the debate on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This debate takes place in conjunction with a much broader debate on the concept of sustainable development itself, where the role of economic growth is both questioned and supported, seen as either a necessary support for sustainability or as a barrier to truly sustainable societies. READ MORE