democracy

HOW DO WE GET OUR DEMOCRACY BACK?

Political systems once regarded as mechanisms for solving problems are now widely regarded as part of the problem. We need pathways for political parties and citizen movements to work better, together to refresh political agendas and bring new thinking into governments.

A Civic Economy of Provisions

Marvin T. Brown

An economy built around civic relations instead of property relations: focusing on the civic economics of provision

A Framework for Shaping Sustainable Lifestyles

Lewis Akenji, Huizhen Chen

How social norms and institutions can shape sustainable lifestyles in varying contexts

Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Designing a cooperative solidarity commonwealth that focuses on democracy, equity, and collective ownership in a sustainable future

Challenging Consumerism: Toward Living Well Sustainably

Emmanuel Prinet

Major takeaways from SCORAI’s sustainable production and consumption workshop

Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm

David Bollier

Transitioning to the next system in a commons-based economy

Degrowth futures and democracy

Claudio Cattaneo, Giacomo D’Alisa, Giorgos Kallis, Christos Zografos

On shaping socio-economic movements for a degrowth future

Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth: An Alliance between Two Movements

Joan Martínez-Alier

The relationship between environmental justice and degrowth movements in the Global North

Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible?

James D. Ward, Paul C. Sutton, Adrian D. Werner, Robert Costanza, Steve H. Mohr, Craig T. Simmons

Why we should change our economic growth policies based on the realities of decoupling

Limits Revisited

Tim Jackson, Robin Wesbter

We are rapidly approaching environmental limits in our search for economic growth

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart III Chapin, Eric Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Björn Nykvist, Cynthia A. de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Peter K. Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg, Robert W. Corell, Victoria J. Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen, and Jonathan Foley

Humanity has transgressed 3 of 9 planetary boundaries within which we can safely operate