The recent wave of populism has focused attention on 'left behind'places as hotspots of
discontent. Seeking to remedy their neglect in urban and regional studies, the aim of this …

Regions across the world are searching for ways to fashion new green growth paths and to
promote green shifts in mature industries. The article aims to explore conceptually and …

Economic growth is a two‐edged sword. Expanding economies and industries create wealth
and employment, but global economic expansion is having unprecedented deleterious …

The term 'décroissance'(degrowth) signifies a process of political and social transformation
that reduces a society's material and energy use while improving the quality of life. Degrowth …

Over the last decade, degrowth has offered a concrete alternative to eco-modernization,
projecting a society emancipated from the environmentally destructive imperative of …

Growing evidence supports the need to re-evaluate the nature and function of our
economies in favour of post-growth principles if we are to have a socially and …

Recent international and national policy initiatives promulgate the Circular Economy (CE) as
the new central pathway towards sustainable modes of production and consumption. A …

Welfare states are highly dependent on the economic growth paradigm. Especially in social
democratic welfare states, growth dependence has historically been accompanied by the …

Although co-evolution is a key concept in contemporary economic geography because of its
relevance for achieving deep contextualization and sound policy recommendations, it has …

In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, scholars from
geography and neighboring disciplines question incumbent socioeconomic trajectories …