As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, nearly 100 articles on climate change, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
Degrowth or Decoupling? Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty?
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.