Economic Growth and Sustainable Housing: An Uneasy Relationship
critically discusses the possibilities of decoupling environmental
degradation from economic growth. The author refutes the belief in
combining perpetual economic growth with long-term environmental
sustainability based on the premise that economic growth can be
fully decoupled from negative environmental impacts. This
proposition is underpinned by intensive study in the housing sector
from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Xue employs
critical realism to inform the investigation and organize the
argumentation throughout the book. The book is organised into four
parts: the first discusses the relevance of critical realism to the
research field of housing and urban sustainable development in
terms of ontology and methodology. The second makes a
transcendental refutation of the possibilities of decoupling
economic growth from housing-related environmental impacts by
describing transfactual conditions of full decoupling. The third
part presents two case studies to show whether and to what extents
decoupling between economic growth and housing-related
environmental impacts have historically taken place. Inspired by
critical realist ontology, generalization of abstract concept from
the case studies are made to cast light on the implausibility of
maintaining perpetual economic growth through decoupling. The final
part explains why and how the belief in full decoupling and
economic growth is generated and sustained despite its
implausibility and non-necessity, which constitutes an explanatory
critique of the growth and decoupling ideology and paves the way
for the paradigm shift to socially sustainable de-growth. This book
will be of interest to students of housing and urban studies, to
students of environmental sustainability and also for those
students and academics with a general interest in critical realism.
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