Edited by Peter A. Victor, Professor Emeritus, York University and Brett Dolter, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Regina, Canada

‘Expertly presented with its twenty-three erudite articles being deftly organized into five major sections . . . the Handbook on Growth and Sustainability is an ideal textbook for scholars, students and practitioners with interest in ecological economics, sustainability and environmental studies. While unreservedly recommended for college and university library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that the Handbook on Growth and Sustainability is also available in a paperback edition’

• Contents:1. From Growth to SustainabilityBrett Dolter and Peter A. VictorPART I WHAT IS GROWTH? WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?2. Growth, Development and Learning to Live in a Finite WorldPeter Timmerman3. Sustainable development, limits and growth: Reflections on the conundrumJames Meadowcroft4. Sustainability Metrics and Their UsePeter BartelmusPART II CAN GROWTH BE SUSTAINABLE?5. A New Economics for Our Full WorldHerman Daly6. Ecological Modernisation and Green Growth: Prospects and PotentialPaul Ekins 7. Climate Change, Growth, and SustainabilityAnders Hayden8. Climate Change, Happiness and Income from a Degrowth PerspectiveFilka Sekulova, Giorgos Kallis and François Schneider9. Green Agrowth: Removing the GDP-Growth Constraint on Human ProgressJeroen C.J.M. van den BerghPART III IS THE END OF GROWTH NIGH? SUSTAINABILITY CONSTRAINTS ON GROWTH10. Innovation, Technology, and Economic GrowthMatthais Ruth11. Energy, Economic Growth and Sustainability: An Energy Primer for the 21st CenturyCharles A. S. Hall12. Shortcomings of a Growth-Driven Food SystemMichalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann13. Land as a Planetary Boundary – A Sociological PerspectiveHelmut Haberl and Karl-Heinz ErbPART IV ARE THERE IMPERATIVES FOR GROWTH?14. Prometheus Unwound: Shorter Hours for Sustainable DegrowthAndrea Levy15. Is there a Monetary Growth Imperative? A reviewSebastian Strunz, Bartosz Bartkowski and Harry Schindler16. Thomas Piketty, Growth, Distribution and the EnvironmentSteven Pressman and Robert H. Scott, III17. Growth and Sustainability in a Material World: The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Population, GDP and Resource UseMarina Fischer-Kowalski and Julia K. SteinbergerPART V IS IT POSSIBLE TO MOVE BEYOND GROWTH CULTURE?18. Economic Growth, Biophysical Limits and Sustainability in Economics Textbooks Since 1948Tom L. Green19. From Growth to Sustainability: Cultural Transition Beyond Consumerist LifestylesHalina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt20. Navigating the Anthropocene: Environmental Politics and Complexity in an Era of LimitsStephen Quilley 21. Questioning Sustainability in Latin AmericaMaria Páez Victor22. Going Down? Human Nature, Growth and (Un)SustainabilityWilliam E. Rees23. Beyond Consumer Capitalism - foundations for a sustainable prosperityTim JacksonIndex

Edited by Peter A. Victor, Professor Emeritus, York University and Brett Dolter, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Regina, Canada

‘Expertly presented with its twenty-three erudite articles being deftly organized into five major sections . . . the Handbook on Growth and Sustainability is an ideal textbook for scholars, students and practitioners with interest in ecological economics, sustainability and environmental studies. While unreservedly recommended for college and university library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that the Handbook on Growth and Sustainability is also available in a paperback edition’

• Contents:1. From Growth to SustainabilityBrett Dolter and Peter A. VictorPART I WHAT IS GROWTH? WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?2. Growth, Development and Learning to Live in a Finite WorldPeter Timmerman3. Sustainable development, limits and growth: Reflections on the conundrumJames Meadowcroft4. Sustainability Metrics and Their UsePeter BartelmusPART II CAN GROWTH BE SUSTAINABLE?5. A New Economics for Our Full WorldHerman Daly6. Ecological Modernisation and Green Growth: Prospects and PotentialPaul Ekins 7. Climate Change, Growth, and SustainabilityAnders Hayden8. Climate Change, Happiness and Income from a Degrowth PerspectiveFilka Sekulova, Giorgos Kallis and François Schneider9. Green Agrowth: Removing the GDP-Growth Constraint on Human ProgressJeroen C.J.M. van den BerghPART III IS THE END OF GROWTH NIGH? SUSTAINABILITY CONSTRAINTS ON GROWTH10. Innovation, Technology, and Economic GrowthMatthais Ruth11. Energy, Economic Growth and Sustainability: An Energy Primer for the 21st CenturyCharles A. S. Hall12. Shortcomings of a Growth-Driven Food SystemMichalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann13. Land as a Planetary Boundary – A Sociological PerspectiveHelmut Haberl and Karl-Heinz ErbPART IV ARE THERE IMPERATIVES FOR GROWTH?14. Prometheus Unwound: Shorter Hours for Sustainable DegrowthAndrea Levy15. Is there a Monetary Growth Imperative? A reviewSebastian Strunz, Bartosz Bartkowski and Harry Schindler16. Thomas Piketty, Growth, Distribution and the EnvironmentSteven Pressman and Robert H. Scott, III17. Growth and Sustainability in a Material World: The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Population, GDP and Resource UseMarina Fischer-Kowalski and Julia K. SteinbergerPART V IS IT POSSIBLE TO MOVE BEYOND GROWTH CULTURE?18. Economic Growth, Biophysical Limits and Sustainability in Economics Textbooks Since 1948Tom L. Green19. From Growth to Sustainability: Cultural Transition Beyond Consumerist LifestylesHalina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt20. Navigating the Anthropocene: Environmental Politics and Complexity in an Era of LimitsStephen Quilley 21. Questioning Sustainability in Latin AmericaMaria Páez Victor22. Going Down? Human Nature, Growth and (Un)SustainabilityWilliam E. Rees23. Beyond Consumer Capitalism - foundations for a sustainable prosperityTim JacksonIndex

Edited by Peter A. Victor, Professor Emeritus, York University and Brett Dolter, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Regina, Canada

‘Expertly presented with its twenty-three erudite articles being deftly organized into five major sections . . . the Handbook on Growth and Sustainability is an ideal textbook for scholars, students and practitioners with interest in ecological economics, sustainability and environmental studies. While unreservedly recommended for college and university library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that the Handbook on Growth and Sustainability is also available in a paperback edition’

• Contents:1. From Growth to SustainabilityBrett Dolter and Peter A. VictorPART I WHAT IS GROWTH? WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?2. Growth, Development and Learning to Live in a Finite WorldPeter Timmerman3. Sustainable development, limits and growth: Reflections on the conundrumJames Meadowcroft4. Sustainability Metrics and Their UsePeter BartelmusPART II CAN GROWTH BE SUSTAINABLE?5. A New Economics for Our Full WorldHerman Daly6. Ecological Modernisation and Green Growth: Prospects and PotentialPaul Ekins 7. Climate Change, Growth, and SustainabilityAnders Hayden8. Climate Change, Happiness and Income from a Degrowth PerspectiveFilka Sekulova, Giorgos Kallis and François Schneider9. Green Agrowth: Removing the GDP-Growth Constraint on Human ProgressJeroen C.J.M. van den BerghPART III IS THE END OF GROWTH NIGH? SUSTAINABILITY CONSTRAINTS ON GROWTH10. Innovation, Technology, and Economic GrowthMatthais Ruth11. Energy, Economic Growth and Sustainability: An Energy Primer for the 21st CenturyCharles A. S. Hall12. Shortcomings of a Growth-Driven Food SystemMichalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann13. Land as a Planetary Boundary – A Sociological PerspectiveHelmut Haberl and Karl-Heinz ErbPART IV ARE THERE IMPERATIVES FOR GROWTH?14. Prometheus Unwound: Shorter Hours for Sustainable DegrowthAndrea Levy15. Is there a Monetary Growth Imperative? A reviewSebastian Strunz, Bartosz Bartkowski and Harry Schindler16. Thomas Piketty, Growth, Distribution and the EnvironmentSteven Pressman and Robert H. Scott, III17. Growth and Sustainability in a Material World: The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Population, GDP and Resource UseMarina Fischer-Kowalski and Julia K. SteinbergerPART V IS IT POSSIBLE TO MOVE BEYOND GROWTH CULTURE?18. Economic Growth, Biophysical Limits and Sustainability in Economics Textbooks Since 1948Tom L. Green19. From Growth to Sustainability: Cultural Transition Beyond Consumerist LifestylesHalina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt20. Navigating the Anthropocene: Environmental Politics and Complexity in an Era of LimitsStephen Quilley 21. Questioning Sustainability in Latin AmericaMaria Páez Victor22. Going Down? Human Nature, Growth and (Un)SustainabilityWilliam E. Rees23. Beyond Consumer Capitalism - foundations for a sustainable prosperityTim JacksonIndex