Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Degrowth / Giorgios Kallis, Federico Demaria, Giacomo D'Alisa -- Part 1: Lines of thought -- 1.Anti-utilitarianism / Onofrio Romano -- 2. Bio-economics / Mauro Bonaiuti -- 3. Development, Critiques of / Arturo Escobar -- 4. Environmental Justice / Isabelle Anguelovski 5. Environmentalism, Currents of / Joan Martinez-Alier -- 6. Metabolism, Societal / Alevgul Sorman 7. Political ecology / Susan Paulson 8. Steady-state economics / Joshua Farley -- Part 2: The core -- 9. Autonomy / Marco Deriu -- 10. Capitalism / Diego Andreucci and Terrence McDonough -- 11. Care / Marco Deriu, Giacomo DAlisa and Federico Demaria -- 12. Commodification Erik Gomez -- 13. Commodity frontiers / Marta Conde and Mariana Walter -- 14. Commons / Silke Helfrich and David Bollier -- 15. Conviviality / Marco Deriu -- 16. Dematerialization / Sylvia Lorek-- 17. Dépense / Onofrio Romano -- 18. Depoliticization ("the Political") / Erik Swyngedouw -- 19. Disaster Pedagogy / Serge Latouche -- 20. Entropy / Sergio Ulgiati -- 21. Emergy / Sergio Ulgiati -- 22. GDP / Daniel O'Neil -- 23. Growth / Peter Victor -- 24. Happiness / Filka Sekulova -- 25. Imaginary, Decolonization of / Serge Latouche -- 26. Jevons' paradox / Blake Alcott -- 27. Neo-Malthusians / Joan Martinez-Alier -- 28. Peak oil / Christian Kerschner -- 29. Simplicity / Samuel Alexander -- 30. Social limits of growth / Giorgos Kallis -- Part 3: The Action -- 31. Back-to-the-landers / Rita Calvario and Iago Otero -- 32. Basic and maximum income / Samuel Alexander -- 33. Community currencies / Kristoffer Dittmer -- 34. Cooperatives / Nadia Johanisova, Ruben Suriñach Padilla and Philippa Parry -- 35. Debt audit / Sergi Cutillas, David Llistar and Gemma Tarafa -- 36. Digital commons / Mayo Fuster Morell -- 37. Disobedience / Xavier Renou -- 38. Eco-communities / Claudio Cattaneo -- 39. Indignados (Occupy) / Viviana Asara and Barbara Muraca -- 40. Job Guarantee / Brandon Unti -- 41. Money, Public / Mary Mellor -- 42. New Economy / Tim Jackson -- 43. Nowtopians / Chris Carlsson -- 44. Post-normal science / Giacomo DAlisa and Giorgios Kallis -- 45. Unions / Denis Bayon -- 46. Urban Gardening / Isabelle Anguelovski -- 47. Work-sharing / Juliet Schor -- Part 4: Alliances -- 48. Buen Vivir / Eduardo Gudynas -- 49. Economy of permanence / Chiara Corazza and Victus Solomon -- 50. Feminist economics / Antonella Picchio -- 51. Ubuntu / Mogobe B. Ramose -- Epilogue: From austerity to dépense / Giacomo D'Alisa, Giorgios Kallis and Federico Demaria

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