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Economic Degrowth and Ecological Sustainability

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Decent Work and Economic Growth

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Synonyms

Decoupling; Degrowth movement; Ecological economics; Environmental justice

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Degrowth is an equitable downscaling of production and consumption is considered in such a way that it increases human welfare and also leads to the improvement of ecological conditions at the regional and global levels in the long term. The idea of degrowth arose in response to three environmental, social, and economic crises.

Introduction

Economic growth is an increase in the market value of goods and services produced by an economy over time, which is contractually measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP, or the growth of the ratio of GDP to population (per capita GDP). The economic growth is a critical macroeconomic goal. Since it improves living standards, reduces absolute poverty, creates new jobs, and solves other social problems through increasing the country’s wealth. That is why high levels of economic growth have always been one of the...

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

    Hassan Azarm

  2. Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture Engineering and Rural Development, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Mollasani, Iran

    Abbas Mirzaei

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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Azarm, H., Mirzaei, A. (2021). Economic Degrowth and Ecological Sustainability. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_79-1

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