As a member of SCORAI Europe, GreenDependent Institute is co-organizing a scientific workshop with the above title directly before the 5. International Degrowth Conference in Budapest. Among other issues, we will be discussing the following topics and questions:
- How can we grasp sustainable consumption limits, how are they defined?
- What heterodox concepts and theoretical strands need to be taken into account?
- How do limits relate to human needs, human development and wellbeing on the one hand, and planetary boundaries on the other?
- How does social justice relate to sustainable consumption?
- What perspectives need to be taken into account? (gender, class, socio-economic status, etc.)
- What transformative tools are currently available, towards more equitable forms of consumption?
- How do we quantify and qualify what is meant by social justice in a constrained world?
- What lessons can we learn from differing contexts?
- How can restrictions come about, either voluntary or imposed?
- How do restrictions relate to collective conventions or general understandings of entitlement and excess?
- What examples exist around policies, institutional changes and political interventions?
The organizers of the workshop are:
After the workshop, the proceedings - including the background papers of presentations as well as discussion notes - will be available for download.
The programme of the workshop can be downloaded from here.