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Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Max Koch

FD och habilitation i sociologi från Freie Universität Berlin | Professor

Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Europe in the Postgrowth Era : Towards A sustainable welfare deal

Författare

  • Max Koch

Summary, in English

Europe is confronted with a multiple crisis while coming to grips with its colonial legacy. Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) growth from environmental resource use to stay within planetary limits and meet the Paris climate goals, this article argues that it is unavoidable for the European Union (EU) to enter the postgrowth era and outlines the contours of a ‘sustainable welfare deal’. It first reviews critical issues of the European Green Deal and related EU initiatives. With focus on degrowth and sustainable welfare, the article subsequently zooms in on approaches that substitute GDP growth as overall policy target with environmental and social goals, operationalized as planetary boundaries and social floors. It also introduces relevant current debates within the growth-critical academic community: complexity and democratic planning, decoupling economic growth and welfare, and the roles of economic elites and democratic governance in social-ecological transformations. The discussion sketches and encourages further debate on a ‘sustainable welfare deal’ as meaningful response to the social-ecological crisis and how it could be integrated in European policy making.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan
  • Socialpolitik och hållbarhet
  • LU profilområde: Naturbaserade framtidslösningar

Publiceringsår

2025-03-16

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1665-1665

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volym

63

Avvikelse

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Other Social Sciences
  • Social Work

Nyckelord

  • European Union
  • Climate Emergency
  • Social Inequality
  • Degrowth
  • Postgrowth
  • Sustainable Welfare

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Postgrowth Welfare Systems
  • Economic Elites in the Climate Change Transformation: Practices, justifications and regulations of unsustainable lifestyles in Sweden

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0021-9886