The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth
238 academics call on the European Union and its member states to plan for a post-growth future in which human and ecological wellbeing is prioritised over GDP
This week, scientists, politicians, and policymakers are gathering in Brussels for a landmark conference. The aim of this event, organised by members of the European parliament from five different political groups, alongside trade unions and NGOs, is to explore possibilities for a "post-growth economy" in Europe.
For the past seven decades, GDP growth has stood as the primary economic objective of European nations. But as our economies have grown, so has our negative impact on the environment. We are now exceeding the safe operating space for humanity on this planet, and there is no sign that economic activity is being decoupled from resource use or pollution at anything like the scale required. Today, solving social problems within European nations does not require more growth. It requires a fairer distribution of the income and wealth that we already have.
Dr Dan O'Neill, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Federico Demaria, Researcher, Universitat Auti^2noma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Giorgos Kallis, Professor, Universitat Auti^2noma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Kate Raworth, Author of 'Doughnut Economics', UK
Dr Tim Jackson, Professor, University of Surrey, UK
Dr Jason Hickel, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Dr Lorenzo Fioramonti, Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr Marta Conde, President of Research & Degrowth, Spain
Dr Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK
Dr Steve Keen, Professor, Kingston University, UK
Dr Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA
Dr Ann Pettifor, Director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), UK
Dr Serge Latouche, Universiti(C) Paris Sud, France
Dr Kate Pickett, Professor, University of York, UK
Dr Susan George, President of the Transnational Institute-TNI, Netherlands
Dr Joan Martinez Alier, Professor, Universitat Auti^2noma de Barcelona, Catalonia
Dr David Graeber, Professor, London School of Economics, UK
Dr Juan Carlos Monedero Fernindez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dr Dominique Mi(C)da, Professor, University Paris Dauphine, France
Dr Lourdes Beneria, Professor Emerita, Cornell University, USA
Dr Inge Ripke, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr Niko Paech, Professor, University of Siegen, Germany
Dr Jean Gadrey, Professor, University of Lille, France
Dr Nadia Johanisova, Lecturer, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Dr Wolfgang Sachs, Research Director Emeritus, Wuppertal Institut, Germany
Dr Stefania Barca, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr Gilbert Rist, Emeritus Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
Dr Gyirgy Pataki, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Dr Simone D'Alessandro, Professor, University of Pisa, Italy
Dr Ian Gough, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, UK
Dr Inigo Capellin-Pi(C)rez, Researcher, University of Valladolid, Spain
Dr Amaia Pi(C)rez Orozco, Researcher, Colectiva XXK, Spain
Dr Max Koch, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Fabrice Flipo, Professor, Institut Mines Ti(C)li(C)com-BS et LCSP Paris 7 Diderot, France
Dr Matthias Schmelzer, Researcher, University of Jena and Konzeptwerk Neue i-konomie, Germany
Dr iscar Carpintero, Associate Professor, University of Valladolid, Spain
Dr Hubert Buch-Hansen, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Dr Christos Zografos, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Dr Tereza Stickelovi, Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Dr Alf Hornborg, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Eric Clark, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Miklos Antal, Researcher, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Jordi Roca Jusmet, Professor, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Philippe Defeyt, Chairman, Institute for Sustainable Development, Belgium
Dr Erik Swyngedouw, Professor, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Christian Kerschner, Assistant Professor, Modul University Vienna, Austria
Dr Agata Hummel, Assistant Professor, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland
Dr Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Dr Frank Adler, Researcher, Brandenburg-Berlin Institute for Social Scientific Research, Germany
Dr Janne I. Hukkinen, Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
Dr Jorge Riechmann, Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Samuel Martin-Sosa Rodriguez, Responsable de Internacional, Ecologistas en Accion, Spain
Dr John Barry, Professor, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dr Linda Nierling, Senior Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dr Ines Omann, Senior Researcher, Austrian Foundation for Development Research, Austria
Dr Hug March, Associate Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Dr Jakub Kronenberg, Associate Professor, University of Lodz, Poland
Yayo Herrero, Miembro del Foro de Transiciones, Spain
Dr Isabelle Anguelovski, Professor, Universitat Auti^2noma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Franiois Schneider, Researcher, Research & Degrowth, France
Dr Vasilis Kostakis, Senior Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Dr Enric Tello, Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain
Dr Andrew Sayer, Professor, Lancaster University, UK
Dr Kate Soper, Emerita Professor, London Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Klaus Hubacek, Professor, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Dr Brent Bleys, Assistant Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
Dr Jill Jiger, Independent Scholar, Vienna, Austria
Dr Mauro Gallegati, Professor, Universiti Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Dr Peadar Kirby, Professor Emeritus, University of Limerick, Ireland
Dr Ini(C)s Marco, Researcher, University of Barcelona, Spain
Dr Ivan Murray Mas, Assistant Lecturer, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Dr Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr Aurore Lalucq, Co-Director, Veblen Institute, France
Dr Gail Plumecocq, Researcher, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France
Dr David Soto Fernindez, Associate Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Dr Christian Kimmich, Researcher, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
Dr Giacomo D'Alisa, Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr Seth Schindler, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Philippe Roman, Researcher, ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium
Dr Lorenzo Pellegrini, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dr Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Dr Tommaso Luzzati, Assistant Professor, University of Pisa, Italy
Dr Christoph Gran, ZOE Institute for Future Fit Economies, Germany
Dr Tor A. Benjaminsen, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Dr Barry McMullin, Professor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Dr Edwin Zaccai, Professor, Universiti(C) Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr Jens Friis Lund, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Pierre Ozer, Researcher, Universiti(C) de Liige, Belgium
Dr Louison Cahen-Fourot, Researcher, Institute for Ecological Economics, Wirtschaftsuniversitit Vienna, Austria
Dr Tommaso Rondinella, Researcher, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy
Dr Julia Steinberger, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Andrew Fanning, Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK
Jose Luis Fdez Casadevante Kois, Miembro del Foro Transiciones, Spain
Dr Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Dr Astrid Agenjo Calderon, Lecturer, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Dr Tom Bauler, Professor, Universiti(C) Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr Gregers Andersen, Independent Researcher, Denmark
Dr Peter Siderbaum, Professor Emeritus, Milardalen University, Sweden
Dr Lourenzo Fernandez Priero, Professor, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dr John R Porter, Emeritus Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Franiois Thoreau, Senior Researcher, University of Liege, France
Mariagiulia Costanzo Talarico, Researcher, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Dr Maria Nikolaidi, Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich, UK
Dr Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Lecturer, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, Assistant Professor, University of Roskilde, Denmark
Dimitar Sabev, Researcher, University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
Dr Mladen Domazet, Research Director, Institute for Political Ecology, Croatia
Dr Hans Diefenbacher, Professor, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Dr Marco Armiero, Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr Irene Ring, Professor, Technische Universitit Dresden, Germany
Dr Christine Bauhardt, Professor, Humboldt-Universitit zu Berlin, Germany
Dr Dominique Bourg, Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr Tomas Ryska, Lecturer, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Dr Filka Sekulova, Researcher, Universitat Auti^2noma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Andrej LukAiA, Associate Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr Adrian Smith, Professor, University of Sussex, UK
Dr Serenella Iovino, Professor, Universiti di Torino, Italy
Dr Helga Kromp-Kolb, Professor, University of Renewable Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Dr Roberto De Vogli, Associate Professor, University of Padova, Italy
Dr Danijela Dolenec, Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dr Alexandra Kives, Senior Lecturer, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Dr Antoine Bailleux, Professor, Universiti(C) Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr Christof Mauch, Director, Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Germany
Ajda Pistotnik, Independent Researcher, EnaBanda, Slovenia
Dr Branko AnAiA, Researcher, Institute for Social Research for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia
Dr Marija Brajdic Vukovic, Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dr Manuel Gonzilez de Molina, Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Dr Kye Askins, Reader, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr Carlos de Castro Carranza, Profesor Titular de Fisica Aplicada, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Dr Annika Pissin, Researcher, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Eva FraAkovi, Assistant Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Dr Helga Kromp-Kolb, Professor, University of Renewable Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Dr Lidija AivAiA, Senior Expert, Focus, Association for Sustainable Development, Slovenia
Dr Martin PogaAar, Research Fellow, ZRC SAZU, Slovenia
Dr Peter Nielsen, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
Yaryna Khmara, Researcher, University of Lodz, Poland
Dr Ika Darnhofer, Associate Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Dr Isabelle Cassiers, Professor, Universiti(C) catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Dr Mihnea Tanasescu, Researcher, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
Dr Daniel Hausknost, Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Change and Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Dr Christoph Girg, Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
Dr Andreas Novy, Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Dr Fikret Adaman, Professor, BoAaziii University, Turkey
Dr Bengi Akbulut, Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Canada
Dr Kevin Mari(C)chal, Professor, Universiti(C) de Liige, Belgium
Dr Anke Schaffartzik, Researcher, Universitat Auti^2noma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Milena Buchs, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Jean-Louis Aillon, Researcher, University of Genova, Italy
Dr Melanie Pichler, Researcher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Dr Helmut Haberl, Associate Professor, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Dr Julien-Franiois Gerber, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
Dr John Holten-Andersen, Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
Theresa Klostermeyer, Officer for Sustainability and Social Change, German League for Nature, Animal and Environmental Protection, Germany
Dr Lyla Mehta, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, UK
Dr Geneviive Azam, Professor, Universiti(C) Jean Jauris, France
Dr Hermann E. Ott, Professor, University of Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Germany
Dr Angelika Zahrnt, Professor, Institute for Ecological Economic Research, Germany
Dr Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK
Dr Irmi Seidl, Assistant Professor, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland
Dr Shilpi Srivastava, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, UK
Dr Elgars Felcis, Researcher, University of Latvia, Chairman of Latvian Permaculture Association, Latvia
Dr Tilman Santarius, Professor, Technische Universitit Berlin and Einstein Center Digital Futures, Germany
Nina Treu, Coordinator of Konzeptwerk Neue i-konomie, Germany
Dr Laura Horn, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
Jennifer Hinton, Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr Friedrich Hinterberger, President, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria
Dr Miriam Lang, Assistant Professor, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador
Dr Susse Georg, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr Silvio Cristiano, Researcher, Universiti degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' & Universiti Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
Dr Petr JehliAka, Senior Lecturer, Open University, UK
Dr Maja Gipel, Professor, Leuphana University, Member Club of Rome, Germany
Dr Geraldine Thiry, Associate Professor, ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium
Dr Olivier Malay, Researcher, University of Louvain, Belgium
Dr Richard Lane, Researcher, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Dr Laura Centemeri, Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Dr Stephan Lessenich, Professor, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
Timothi(C)e Parrique, Researcher, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr Ludivine Damay, Lecturer, Universiti(C) libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr Janis Brizga, Researcher, University of Latvia, Latvia
Dr Claudio Cattaneo, Associate Professor, Universitat Auti^2noma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Miquel Ortega Cerdi, Advisor, Barcelona City Council
Dr Olivier De Schutter, Professor, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Dr Annalisa Colombino, Assistant Professor, Institute of Geography and Regional Sciences, University of Graz, Austria
Dr Philip von Brockdorff, Head of the Department of Economics, University of Malta, Malta
Dr Sarah Cornell, Senior Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough University, UK
Francesco Gonella, Professor, Universiti Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
Orsolya Lazanyi, Researcher, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Dr Eva Friman, Director at Swedesd, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr Pernilla Hagbert, Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Vincent Liegey, Co-Author of 'A Degrowth Project', Hungary
Dr Manlio Iofrida, Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
Dr Mauro Bonaiuti, Lecturer, University of Turin, Italy
Dr Marco Deriu, Researcher, University of Parma, Italy
Dr Eeva Houtbeckers, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University, Finland
Dr Guy Julier, Professor, Aalto University, Finland
Dr Anna Kaijser, Lecturer, Linkiping University, Sweden
Dr Petter Niss, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Dr Irina Velicu, Researcher, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr Ulrich Brand, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr Christina Plank, Researcher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Dr Karolina Isaksson, Senior Research Leader, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Sweden
Dr Jin Xue, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Dr Rasmus Steffansen, Researcher, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Dr Irmak Ertir, Researcher, Universitat Auti^2noma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Maria Hadjimichael, Researcher, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Dr Carlo Aall, Researcher, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
Dr Claudiu Craciun, Lecturer, National School of Political Studies and Administration (SNSPA), Romania
Dr Tuuli Hirvilammi, Researcher, University of Jyviskyli, Finland
Dr Tuula Helne, Senior Researcher, The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Finland
Davide Biolghini, Researcher, Rete italiana Economia Solidale (RES), Italy
Dr Pasi Heikkurinen, Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Anne Tittor, Researcher, University of Jena, Germany
Dr Dennis Eversberg, Researcher, University of Jena, Germany
Dr Herman Stil, Lecturer, Umea School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Sweden
Dr Hervi(C) Corvellec, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Anna Heikkinen, Researcher, University of Tampere, Finland
Dr Karl Bonnedahl, Researcher, Umea University, Sweden
Dr Meri Koivusalo, Professor, University of Tampere, Finland
Dr Martin Fritz, Researcher, Bielefeld University, Germany
Dr Daniel Bergquist, Researcher, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Dr Yuri Kazepov, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr Salvador Pueyo, Researcher, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia
Dr Lars Rydi(C)n, Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
Patrick ten Brink, Director of EU Policy, European Environmental Bureau, Belgium
Dr Ebba Lisberg Jensen, Associate Professor, Malmi University, Sweden
Dr Alevgul H. Sorman, Researcher, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Spain
Dr Aram Ziai, Professor, University of Kassel, Germany
Dr Panos Petridis, Researcher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria
Dr Gary Dymski, Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Markus Wissen, Professor, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
Dr Wendy Harcourt, Professor, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Dr John Barrett, Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Silke van Dyk, Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitit Jena, Germany
Dr Vasna Ramasar, Senior Lecturer, Lund University, Sweden
Danijela TamAe, Managing Editor of the Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and New Anthropology, Slovenia
Dr Camil Ungureanu, Associate Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Dr Mirela Holy, Lecturer, VERN' University of Zagreb, Croatia
Continue reading...