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Can We Stop the Advance of Climate Change While Growing the Global Economy?

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Brett Dolter and Peter Victor discuss growing the global economy and combatting climate change. Climate change is a “super wicked problem” (Levin et al., 2012). Stopping the rise of global temperatures requires complete decarbonization of our energy system. This shift will upend existing power structures, and disrupt habits and behavioural norms. To add to the challenge, climate change action […]

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Can research in political psychology be harnessed to speed uptake of ecological economic theory?

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By Tom Green (Note: An earlier version of this piece appeared in the CANSEE Newsletter in 2013). We associate truth with convenience – with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal wellbeing or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. – John Kenneth Galbraith Almost three decades have passed since

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It’s Time for a New Economics of Sustainability by Dan O’Neill

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Ecological economists have long argued that the pursuit of never-ending economic growth is a dead-end strategy.  One of the most basic insights of the discipline is that the economy is a subsystem of the environment.  All of the inputs to the economy come from the environment, and all of the wastes produced by it return

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