Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge Environmental Humanities)

Synopsis

‘Degrowth’, a type of ‘postgrowth’, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone’s basic needs. This groundbreaking collection on housing for degrowth addresses key challenges of unaffordable, unsustainable and anti-social housing today, including going beyond struggles for a 'right to the city' to a 'right to metabolism', advocating refurbishment versus demolition, and revealing controversies within the degrowth movement on urbanisation, decentralisation and open localism. International case studies show how housing for degrowth is based on sufficiency and conviviality, living a ‘one planet lifestyle’ with a common ecological footprint. This book explores environmental, cultural and economic housing and planning issues from interdisciplinary perspectives such as urbanism, ecological economics, environmental justice, housing studies and policy, planning studies and policy, sustainability studies, political ecology, social change and degrowth. It will appeal to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

296 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781351365239

Related ISBNs:

9781138558052, 9781315151205, 9780367358334

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/25/23

Copyrighted By:

Anitra Nelson, François Schneider

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Anitra Nelson

Edited by:

François Schneider