Degrowth or Decoupling?

Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty?

The much-anticipated debate on ‘degrowth’, featuring Jason Hickel and Stephane Hallegatte, has now been published by the journal Development Policy Review, for ODI.

There is a preview I wrote back in December last year, here.

There is an ODIOverseas Development Institute (London) Insights piece, written jointly with Steve Wiggins, the Editor of DPR, here. It highlights five main issues in the debate.

The full debate is free to read for the next six months, and can be found here. This is the Introduction:

Do read the debate and join the discussion on Twitter, at #DPRdegrowth.