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Sufficiency

From Growth and Overshoot to Enoughness

Series: International Comparative Social Studies, Volume: 62

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004746404

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 02 Dec 2025

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- Biology
  - Earth Sciences
- Social Sciences

Front Matter

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Part 1 Setting the Stage

Chapter 1 Introduction: Sufficiency in the Time of Growth and Overshoot

Chapter 2 Relational Sufficiency: an Essay on an Idea, a Principle, an Imperative

Chapter 3 The Missing Activities in the IPAT Equation

Part 2 Sufficiency in Affluence

Chapter 4 From Overconsumption to Respecting Planetary Boundaries

Chapter 5 Affluence at the Expense of Others: from the Hegemony of Capitalism to Degrowth Transitions towards Sufficiency

Chapter 6 A Business of Deep Transformations Is a Business of Sufficiency

Part 3 Sufficiency in Technology

Chapter 7 Getting Our Bearings after Oil: Technology, Sufficiency and Types of Knowledge

Chapter 8 Social Organization as Transformative Technology: from Demand-Driven Growth to Needs-Oriented Wellbeing

Chapter 9 Human-Powered Transit, Energy, and the Sufficiency of Slow Travel

Part 4 Sufficiency in Population

Chapter 10 Taking Population Seriously in the IPAT Equation: Ethical and Political Implications of Planetary Boundaries

Chapter 11 Sufficient Population? Checklist for a More Proper Discourse on the Degrowth of Human Numbers in Affluent Societies

Chapter 12 Too Many People: Applying IPAT in an Overpopulated World

Chapter 13 Conclusion: Sufficiency-Driven Change

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