Handbook on growth and sustainability / edited by Peter A. Victor, Brett Dolter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- From growth to sustainability / Brett Dolter and Peter A. Victor -- Part I: What is Growth? What is Sustainability?. Growth, development and learning to live in a finite world / Peter Timmerman -- Sustainable Development, limits and growth: reflections on the conundrum / James Meadowcroft -- Sustainability metrics and their use / Peter Bartelmus -- Part II: Can Growth Be Sustainable?. A new economics for our full world / Herman Daly -- Ecological modernization and green growth: prospects and potential / Paul Ekins -- Climate change, growth, and sustainability / Anders Hayden -- Climage change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective / Filka Sekulova, Giorgos Kallis and Francois Schneider -- Green agrowth: removing the GDP-growth constraint on human progress / Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh -- Part III: Is the End of Growth Nigh? Sustainability Constraints on Growth. Innovation, technology, and economic growth / Matthias Ruth -- Energy, economic growth and sustainability: an energy primer for the twenty-first century / Charles A.S. Hall -- Shortcomings of a growth-driven food system / Michalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann -- Land as a planetary boundary: a socioecological perspective / Helmut Haberl and Karl Heinz-Erb -- Part IV: Are there Imperatives for Growth?. Prometheus unwound: shorter hours for sustainable degrowth / Andrea Levy -- Is there a monetary growth imperative? / Sebastian Strunz, Bartosz Bartkowski and Harry Schindler -- Thomas Piketty, growth distribution and the environment / Steven Pressman and Robert H. Scott, III -- Growth and sustainability in a material world: the self-reinforcing cycle of population, GDP and resource use / Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Julia K. Steinberger -- Part V: Is It Possible to Move Beyond Growth Culture?. Economics growth, biophysical limits and sustainability in economics textbooks since 1948 / Tom L. Green -- From growth to sustainability: cultural transition beyond consumerist lifestyles / Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt -- Navigating the Anthropocene: environmental politics and complexity in an era of limits / Stephen Quilley -- Questioning sustainability in Latin America / Mar�ia P�aez Victor -- Going Down? Human nature, growth, and (un)sustainability / William E. Rees -- Beyond consumer capitalism: foundation for a sustainable prosperity / Tim Jackson -- Index.

This Handbook assembles new contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees, Peter Bartelmus and Tim Jackson, who have helped define our understanding of growth and sustainability, as well as new thinking on topics such as degrowth, the debt-based financial system, cultural change, energy return on investment, shorter working hours and employment, and innovation and technology. Explorations of these issues can deepen our understanding of whether growth is sustainable and, in turn, whether a move away from growth can be sustained. With issues such as climate change looming large, our understanding of growth and sustainability is critical. This Handbook offers a broad range of perspectives that can help the reader decide: growth? Sustainability? Both? Or neither? Contributions are drawn from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, engineering and journalism, placing the work of established luminaries alongside emerging scholars who offer fresh new perspectives. A special section dedicated to exploring 'growth imperatives' that make transitioning away from economic growth difficult is provided, and the book includes a focus on cultural change and economic growth.