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Author Costanza, Robert

Title Addicted to Growth Societal Therapy for a Sustainable Wellbeing Future
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (157 p.)
Series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Summary -- 1 Understanding the Addiction: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here? -- 1.1 The Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration -- 1.2 The Great Acceleration and the Economic Growth Paradigm -- 1.3 Planetary Boundaries and the Looming Climate/Extinction/Financial Crises -- 2 Acknowledging the Addiction: We Know the Problems -- Why Haven't We Solved Them? -- 2.1 Lock in, Social Traps, and Societal Addictions
2.2 What Is Addiction and the Individual Scale? -- 2.3 How Can a Society Be Thought of as 'Addicted'? -- 2.4 Motivational Interviewing -- 2.5 Scaling Up From the Individual to the Societal Level -- 2.6 History: Collapse Is Common, But Social Transformations Are Possible -- 2.7 Societal Therapy and Creating Shared Visions -- 2.8 Cultural Evolution and Scenario Planning -- 2.9 Other Relevant Approaches -- 2.10 Conclusions -- 3 Wellbeing Economics: A New Vision of How the World Works and How It Could Be Better -- 3.1 Beyond the Empty World Model
3.2 The Psychology of Wellbeing: What Is the Economy For? -- 3.3 An Integrative Definition of Quality of Life and Wellbeing -- 3.4 The Four Capitals: Measuring and Managing Our Full Portfolio of Assets -- 3.5 Ecosystem Services -- 3.6 Ecologically Sustainable Scale: How Physically Big Can the Economy (and Population) Get? -- 3.7 Fair Distribution: Who Gets What and Why? -- 3.8 Efficient Allocation: How Do We Make the Most of What We Have? -- 3.9 Measuring Success: Beyond GDP to Sustainable Wellbeing -- 3.10 Why Are We Stuck? -- 3.11 The SDGs and Sustainable Wellbeing
3.12 There Are Alternatives -- 3.13 Conclusions -- 4 Active Therapy: Creating Shared Goals for a Sustainable and Desirable Future -- 4.1 Cultural Evolution and the Role of Envisioning in Creating the Future We All Want -- 4.2 Scenarios: Alternative Visions of the Future -- 4.3 The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a First Step -- 4.4 What Could a Sustainable and Desirable Wellbeing Economy Look Like? -- 5 Creating a Sustainable Wellbeing Future: How Do We Get From Here to There? -- 5.1 Finding the Path to the Future We All Want -- 5.2 A Broader View of Property Rights and Common Assets
5.3 Tax and Subsidy Reform -- 5.4 Participatory Governance Institutions for Sustainability -- 6 Sustaining a Better World in 2050 and Beyond: Ongoing Envisioning and Adaptive Management -- 6.1 The Future We Want Is Already Here -- Epilogue -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Economic history -- 21st century.
Economic history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000817638
1000817636