Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries

Kallis, Giorgos, Hickel, Jason, O'Neill, Daniel W., Jackson, Tim, Victor, Peter A., Raworth, Kate, Schor, Juliet B., Steinberger, Julia K. and Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana (2025) Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9 (1). e62-e78. ISSN 2542-5196

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Abstract

There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing. Despite recent advances in post-growth research, important questions remain, such as the politics of transition, and transformations in the relationship between the Global North and the Global South.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s).
Divisions:	International Inequalities Institute
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2025 17:36
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2025 01:01
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127109

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