A Degrowth Transition : Pathways for the Degrowth Niche to Replace the Capitalist-Growth Regime

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800917312594?via%3Dihub#" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800917312594?via%3Dihub#</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.10.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.10.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Degrowth Transition : Pathways for the Degrowth Niche to Replace the Capitalist-Growth Regime

Original language description

Facing the intertwined environmental, social and economic crisis requires us to seriously consider alternatives to the current capitalist system, including the emerging concept of degrowth. Existing understandings of degrowth have focused on characterizing the shape, the key elements and the proposals for a degrowth society. However, its dynamic and evolving nature as an alternative vision of the future, and the dynamics of a transition toward degrowth are inadequately considered. This paper seeks to address this conceptual gap through a reconceptualisation of degrowth as a radical niche innovation to the capitalist-growth regime. By extending the multi-level perspective framework to the capitalist-growth system, we undertake a critical reconsideration of the multi-level perspective, exposing key assumptions of this framework grounded in capitalist economic theory. Through this, we propose a Pluriversal potential pathway for change. To consider this further, a bibliometric analysis is used to measure and visualize research activity in degrowth as a proxy for the processes of development of the degrowth niche. Then, we return to the multi-level perspective to consider two potential pathways for change involving the degrowth niche and the capitalist-growth regime. Finally, we point to areas for further research that build on this new conceptualisation of a degrowth transition.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ecological Economics

ISSN

0921-8009

e-ISSN

1873-6106

Volume of the periodical

156

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

272-286

UT code for WoS article

000453493000025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85054780957