Sufficiency as a "Strategy of the Enough": Curbing ecological crises and injustices. A summary of the German Advisory Council on the Environment's discussion paper
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In: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2024, p. 275-281.
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T1 - Sufficiency as a "Strategy of the Enough": Curbing ecological crises and injustices.
T2 - A summary of the German Advisory Council on the Environment's discussion paper
AU - Michaelis, Julia
AU - Vogel, Bendix
AU - Strunz, Sebastian
AU - Lucht, Wolfgang
AU - Dahms, Henriette
AU - Dornack, Christina
AU - Geissler, Anne
AU - Hertin, Julia
AU - Hoffart, Franziska
AU - Kemfert, Claudia
AU - Klein, Manuel
AU - Köck, Wolfgang
AU - Lage, Jonas
AU - Marquard, Elisabeth
AU - Schmalz, Sophie
AU - Settele, Josef
AU - Sommer, Bernd
AU - Weiss, Sebastian
AU - Wiegand, Sophie
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - A recent discussion paper Sufficiency as a "Strategy of the Enough": A Necessary Debate by the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) aims to intensify the debate on sufficiency, a central but neglected element of future-oriented policy. It defines sufficiency as the need to limit the consumption and production of ecologically critical goods and services, mainly by the economically rich, as a basis for reducing distributional injustices and environmental impacts. Rather than proposing specific measures, the paper deliberately aims to explain the need for sufficiency from various scientific disciplines, and invite discussion. Here, the authors of the discussion paper provide a short overview of the analyses and arguments in English.
AB - A recent discussion paper Sufficiency as a "Strategy of the Enough": A Necessary Debate by the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) aims to intensify the debate on sufficiency, a central but neglected element of future-oriented policy. It defines sufficiency as the need to limit the consumption and production of ecologically critical goods and services, mainly by the economically rich, as a basis for reducing distributional injustices and environmental impacts. Rather than proposing specific measures, the paper deliberately aims to explain the need for sufficiency from various scientific disciplines, and invite discussion. Here, the authors of the discussion paper provide a short overview of the analyses and arguments in English.
KW - circular economy
KW - low-carbon technology
KW - planetary boundaries
KW - resource limitation
KW - sufficiency
KW - sustainability
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85208667475&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.14512/gaia.33.3.3
DO - 10.14512/gaia.33.3.3
M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports
AN - SCOPUS:85208667475
VL - 33
SP - 275
EP - 281
JO - GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
JF - GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
SN - 0940-5550
IS - 3
ER -