Sufficiency in Nature

Population, Affluence, and Technology
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72473-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: International Comparative Social Studies

The present global ecological crisis demands a critical reassessment. This book suggests that one valuable approach can be found in the well-known I=PAT formulation: that environmental impact (I) is a function of population (P), affluence (A), and technology (T). The contributors propose that IPAT can be assessed in light of the concept of sufficiency: the idea that limits, bounds, or “enoughness” are central to the discussion. What is ‘sufficiency’ in this context, in an era defined by ecological overshoot and growth-driven economic policies? How much is enough, and how much is too much? This volume breaks new ground by addressing all three of the IPAT factors in a forthright manner, in the light of sufficiency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Skrbina, David

Ruuska, Toni

Nyfors, Tina

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik

Über Autor(innen)

David Skrbina, PhD, is a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki, and was previously a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan, Dearborn for 15 years. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including The Metaphysics of Technology (Routledge, 2015).

Toni Ruuska is Senior Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Principle Investigator of Underdogs of Just Transition research project (2024-2027), and Co-editor of Mayfly Books. Ruuska has co-edited Sustainability Beyond Technology (Oxford University Press, 2021) and is the author of Reproduction Revisited: Capitalism, Higher Education and Ecological Crisis (Mayfly Books, 2019). His theoretical work focuses on ecological Marxism, eco-feminism, and phenomenology.

Tina Nyfors is a doctoral researcher University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on sufficiency in a policy- and an environmental-movement context, and she has authored the article “Ecological Sufficiency in Climate Policy: Towards Policies for Recomposing Consumption” (2020).