Abstract The sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) have successfully raised awareness
and built momentum for taking collective action, while also remaining uncritical of the central …

Global warming and some climate change policies pose additional social risks that
necessitate novel responses from the welfare state. Eco-social policies have significant …

This paper is the first to calculate welfare, measured by the Index of Sustainable Economic
Welfare (ISEW), for the EU-15 countries in a standardized and comparable way. This paper …

A uniquely hybrid approach to welfare state policy, ecological sustainability and social
transformation, this book explores transformative models of welfare change. Using Ireland …

It is widely accepted that the pursuit of economic growth is becoming increasingly infeasible
and undesirable, necessitating substantial changes to European economies. European …

Increasing shares of the sustainable consumption literature postulate the need for a focus on
limits to consumption as a basis for achieving absolute reductions in resource use. After all …

Many socio-economic systems require positive economic growth rates to function properly.
Given uncertainty about future growth rates and increasing evidence that economic growth …

Post-growth economists are concerned with adapting our economies to support human
flourishing without relying on continued growth in economic output, which is inextricably …

The issue of financing the state in a post-growth economy combines several facets of the
general post-growth challenge. Most notably, it concentrates some of the contradictions …

This paper is the first to calculate economic welfare for the EU-15 countries in a
standardized and comparable way. This paper does so by building on a case study for …