A Viable Future? A Viable Future? Explorations in post-growth from Steady State Manchester.
Publisher: Steady State Manchester
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Manchester, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781916385832
Copyright date: 2021
Table of contents: title: 1. The Viable Economy and Society sets out the basic ideas of the post-growth approach in accessible terms.; title: 2. Social analysis of present day realities – including problems of post-industrial settlements, Ideology-Action-Structure complexes and the nature of work in a global context.; title: 3. What about a Green New Deal? a constructive but critical analysis.; title: 4. The decoupling question. Two critical pieces on the idea behind green growth.; title: 5. Money, exchange, credit and investment. Three pieces covering alternative financial structures and the critique of green money-fetishism.; title: 6. Carbon emissions – Manchester as a case study. The analysis is local but the overall approach and conclusions have a wider relevance.; title: 7. Another false solution: the “circular economy”. Can it really be the solution to resource depletion and pollution?; title: 8. Plans and visions: the spatial dimension.  Consultation and ‘done deals’, and People’s Spatial Framework, a vision from the future.; title: 9. Policies. Our Policy suite, Viable Greater Manchester, and the ecological dimension of housing financialisation.; title: 10. Economic development. Alternative approaches to a post-growth economy that provides for citizens.; title: 11. Social welfare. Three pieces on women and community solidarity, universal basic income and the alternatives, and on ‘convivial social policy’.; title: 12. Strategy and politics. Sustainability: Utopian and Scientific, and Degrowth and the British Labour Party.; title: Postscript: A Viable Future?