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Declining energy return on investment (EROI) of a society’s available energy sources can lead to both crisis and opportunity for positive social change. The implications of declining EROI for human wellbeing are complex and open to interpretation. There are many reasons why frugal living and...
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, there is an increasing amount of critical voices calling for a change. The new concept of degrowth addresses a fundamental … transition process towards degrowth by enhancing: (i) a sustainable use of renewable energy sources; (ii) sustainable settlement … for intervention and shows how spatial planning can have positive impacts on degrowth. …
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’s population, i.e., to implement degrowth. Degrowth will need major structural changes, which leads us to question whether there …
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In French economist Serge Latouche’s 2009 book, <i>Farewell to Growth</i>, Latouche discusses “degrowth” in great … embraces the principles outlined in “degrowth” or, as he calls it, <i>décroissance</i>. Latouche writes in <i>Farewell to …)”, biases he insist are “all too common in the West today.” Latouche’s ideas are important for considering “degrowth”, because …
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