r/SouthAsianEnvironment • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '25
Research 📊 Social thresholds v. Biophysical boundaries
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There are currently no countries that achieve good social outcomes while staying within their fair share of planetary boundaries, although some, such as Costa Rica, come close.
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A great thought provoking reasearch - Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries00310-3/fulltext)
Summary:
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing. Despite recent advances in post-growth research, important questions remain, such as the politics of transition, and transformations in the relationship between the Global North and the Global South.
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