Post Growth Innovation

Resisting the Pursuit of Endless Economic Growth
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4994-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Post growth and degrowth scholars argue that we cannot reduce CO2 emissions fast enough to keep global warming below 2 degrees while continuing economic growth. We face a choice: either we innovate how to scale down production and consumption equitably, or we risk severe environmental and social consequences.

Yet the role of innovation remains largely unexplored within contemporary post growth debates. This book fills that gap, examining the narratives, processes, and practices needed to break free from the growth imperative.

It offers a bridge for understanding the far-reaching implications of technological and scientific advancements in a society that challenges economic growth as its central focus.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pansera, Mario

Lloveras, Javier

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: What Do You Believe? A Miracle of Technology or Politics?

1. The Growth Delusion: How Innovation Fuels Our Path to Disaster

2. What’s Wrong With Innovation and Why It Matters for a Postgrowth Society

3. Caring and Maintaining

4. Organizations and Institutions for Post–Growth

5. The Infrastructural Conditions of Postgrowth

6. What Does It Mean Today to Democratise Technology?

Coda: Why Did We Stop Making Experiments?

Über Autor(innen)

Lloveras, Javier
Javier Lloveras is Co-director of the Post Growth Innovation Lab. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vigo.

Pansera, Mario
Mario Pansera is Director of the Post Growth Innovation Lab and OPORTUNIUS Research Professor at the University of Vigo.

Mario Pansera is Director of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab and OPORTUNIUS Research Professor at the University of Vigo.

Javier Lloveras is Co-director of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vigo.