Postgrowth and Wellbeing - Challenges to Sustainable Welfare (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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 human geography.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	August 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Milena Buchs • Max Koch
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	144
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-59902-1
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
LSN:	3-319-59902-X
Barcode:	9783319599021

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