Postgrowth and Wellbeing

Challenges to Sustainable Welfare

Milena Büchs, Max Koch (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 144 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-59902-1 (ISBN)

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This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs deserve greater emphasis in debates on postgrowth because they are more compatible with limits to growth. Drawing on theories of social practices, the book explores structural barriers to transitions to a postgrowth society, and ends with suggestions for policies and institutions that could support wellbeing in the context of postgrowth. This thought-provoking work makes a valuable contribution to debates surrounding climate change, sustainability, welfare states and inequality and will appeal to students and scholars of social policy, sociology, political science, economics, political ecology and humangeography.

Milena Büchs is Associate Professor in Sustainability, Economics and Low Carbon Transitions, University of Leeds, UK. Max Koch is Professor in Social Policy at Lund University, Sweden.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Capitalist development and the growth paradigm.- Chapter 3 Growth and the welfare state as we know it.- Chapter 4 Critiques of growth.- Chapter 5 Postgrowth and human wellbeing.- Chapter 6: The generation of human wellbeing - social practices theory.- Chapter 7: Welfare in a global steady-state economy.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.

"Post-growth and Well-being is a timely and systematic account of the post-growth literature. The book methodically highlights important social science theories and approaches towards a sustainable economy and the implications for both environmental and human well-being. ... Overall the authors present complicated and, arguably, potentially disempowering ideas to the reader in a clear and concise manner ... ." (Rachel Manning, Environmental Values, Vol. 27 (06), December, 2018)

"This concise and comprehensible book provides a very gratifying and manageable reading experience. The structure of the book is coherent with short chapters each beginning with an abstract and ending with an informative conclusion. ... highly recommended reading for all interested in the future of welfare systems and the sustainability of income protection." (Tuuli Hirvilammi, Basic Income Studies, July, 2018)

"Postgrowth and Wellbeing should serve as a reference work for scholars, students and activists engaged in supporting societal transitions towards post-growth societies. Büch and Koch ... stress that, unless the socioeconomic, technological and political articulations framing unsustainable practices are addressed simultaneously, basic needs for health and autonomy may suffer." (Monica Guillen-Royo, Ecological Economics, Vol. 146, April, 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	XV, 144 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	348 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	adaptive preferences • Central / national / federal government policies • climate change • Degrowth • Ecological economics • Economic Growth • eco-social policies • Environmental Policy • Environmental Sociology • Human needs • Limits to Growth • Loss Aversion • measures of wellbeing • Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology • planetary boundaries • Political Economy • postgrowth • secular stagnation • social & ethical issues • Social & ethical issues • Social Policy • social practice theory • Social Sciences • Social Structure, Social Inequality • society & social sciences • Society & Social Sciences • Sociology • sociology: work & labour • Sociology: work & labour • steady state economy • subjective and objective wellbeing • sustainable welfare • The Environment • the growth paradigm • Welfare Economics • Welfare States
ISBN-10	3-319-59902-X / 331959902X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-59902-1 / 9783319599021
Zustand	Neuware