Degrowth through Knowledge-Based Development

Social Flourishing in the Anthropocene
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-76583-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia

This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state. In doing so, it addresses the literature gap on continued social improvement within a post-growth economic and cultural paradigm.

Carrillo consolidates research on the Degrowth paradigm and proposes a conceptual framework for continued social improvement based on the integration of tangible and intangible collective values. He proposes a method that accounts for effective social value through capital systems valuation and development and includes this operational metric system as an alternative to the metric of Gross National Product (GNP). The book critically examines the challenges of identifying a complete and consistent representation of total social value. The book also includes a series of knowledge-based development programmes in cities and regions around the world and discusses policies and practices for urban mitigation and adaptation to the Anthropocene.

This transdisciplinary book will be of particular interest to researchers of degrowth economics, sustainable development, and urban planning.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carrillo, Francisco Javier

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables
List of figures
Preface

1. Introduction: Three converging concepts
2. There are only alternatives
3. Knowledge-Based Development
4. Good lives: Striving to improve the human condition
5. From post-development to Degrowth
6. Social improvement dimensions
7. Capital in the Anthropocene
8. Occupying the economy
9. Knowledge markets as commons
10. Degrowth through knowledge-based urban commons

Über Autor(innen)

Francisco Javier Carrillo is Emeritus Professor of Knowledge Systems at Tecnológico de Monterrey, founder of the World Capital Institute and the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development. His research interests are in knowledge-based development, capital systems, knowledge cities, and knowledge for the Anthropocene.