Max Koch: Postgrowth and Wellbeing

Cover: 9783319867304 | Postgrowth and Wellbeing | Challenges to Sustainable Welfare | Buch

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Beschreibung

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs deserve greater emphasis in debates on postgrowth because they are more compatible with limits to growth. Drawing on theories of social practices, the book explores structural barriers to transitions to a postgrowth society, and ends with suggestions for policies and institutions that could support wellbeing in the context of postgrowth. This thought-provoking work makes a valuable contribution to debates surrounding climate change, sustainability, welfare states and inequality and will appeal to students and scholars of social policy, sociology, political science, economics, political ecology and humangeography.

Über den Autor

Milena Büchs is Associate Professor in Sustainability, Economics and Low Carbon Transitions, University of Leeds, UK.

Max Koch is Professor in Social Policy at Lund University, Sweden.

Zusammenfassung

Carves a new path in the debate on how to ensure a sustainable and more equal existence for future generations

Offers a detailed, sociological approach to the question of how post-growth societies will function

Provides important insights for policy-makers and social movements

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Capitalist development and the growth paradigm.- Chapter 3 Growth and the welfare state as we know it.- Chapter 4 Critiques of growth.- Chapter 5 Postgrowth and human wellbeing.- Chapter 6: The generation of human wellbeing ¿ social practices theory.- Chapter 7: Welfare in a global steady-state economy.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Soziologie , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xv 144 S. 8 s/w Illustr. 144 p. 8 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783319867304
ISBN-10:	331986730X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Koch, Max Büchs, Milena
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2017
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Max Koch (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.08.2018
Gewicht:	0,216 kg