G Kallis

Biographic Data

ID18017
NAMEG Kallis
GIVEN NAMESG
FAMILY NAMEKallis
SIGNATUREKALLIS G
AFFILIATIONSInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
ORCID0000-0003-0688-9552
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS88
TOTAL CITATIONS1152
AUTHOR COUNT88
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX17

  • Energy, surplus and the economic process

    Open AccessG Kallis, Claudio Cattaneo et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2026

    This paper analyses the economic process through the concept of surplus, combining insights from ecological economics, Marxist political economy and anthropology. Humans, we argue, appropriate surplus energy with their labor from nature and apply it to transform matter into goods and services, with entropy increasing along the way. How societies distribute and expend their surpluses gives them some of their signature features. In hierarchical soc…

  • Loved keystone places: Spatialising fundamental human needs for post-growth strategies in rural areas

    Julia Grosinger, Angelos Varvarousis et al.ARTICLELocal Environment2026

  • Encountering degrowth

    Open AccessDavid E Gilbert, Donatella Gasparro et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2026References: 42

    Degrowth theory and movements aim to find ways of living well while downscaling the economy, heal the many metabolic rifts that threaten global ecologies with capitalist exploitation of the earth, and end injustice and violence. While degrowth transformations may not ever be wholly achievable, we nevertheless propose that degrowth exists as lived experiences and practices. These practices take territorial expression and can be understood through …

  • Post-growth: The science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries

    Open AccessG Kallis, Jason Hickel et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Planetary Health2025

  • Towards eco-socialist degrowth: Class and political strategy

    Open AccessG Kallis, Giacomo D’alisa et al.ARTICLEDegrowth Journal2025

    How can transitions to eco-socialist degrowth happen?And who will lead them?This essay engages with Matt Huber's recent work on questions of eco-socialist strategy and offers, hopefully, an opportunity to advance a theory of change beyond single political agents and strategies to encompass different forms of organizing based on varied repertoires of contention and disruption.We wish to sustain an expanded understanding of who may be the political…

  • Sustaining power through economic growth: A Régulation theory of growth dependence

    Open AccessRiwan Driouich, G KallisARTICLEEcological Economics2025

    Economic growth is both essential and detrimental to modern Global North societies. When growth disappears, or becomes negative, debt overhang, unemployment, impoverishment destabilise societies. But ecological fallout from growth can also undermine societies in the long term. So why and how are economies and societies dependent on growth? Many scholars have conceptualised growth dependence as the need to achieve growth to serve general wellbeing…

  • Assessing public support for degrowth: Survey-based experimental and predictive studies

    Open AccessDario Krpan, Frédéric Basso et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Planetary Health2025References: 15

  • Unveiling pervasive assumptions: Moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation

    Open AccessRachel Carmenta, Mairon G Bastos Lima et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2025References: 20

    This paper reflects on the continued persistence of the idea in conservation research and practice that poverty drives biodiversity loss (the poverty-biodiversity loss association [PBLA]). We draw on evidence to show how the PBLA has proven resistant to counter-evidence and is particularly visible at local-level implementation, and is often implicit in conservation strategies. We untangle three underlying reasons that help to explain why the PBLA…

  • A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth

    Open AccessDario Krpan, Frédéric Basso et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025References: 13

  • Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to

    Open AccessTim Jackson, Jason Hickel et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2024

  • Beyond the urban shift: Towards a Relational Degrowth Spatial Politics

    Open AccessAngelos Varvarousis, G Kallis et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2024Cited by: 3References: 11

    Degrowth is coming of age, and its analysis of what can be called degrowth spatial politics is advancing rapidly. In this article, we attempt to unravel the history of spatial thought in the degrowth literature to reveal its tendencies, tipping points, and blank spots. We argue that the more recent degrowth spatial literature overly focuses on the big urban scale by reversing what has purportedly been one of the weak spots of degrowth scholarship…

  • Postfiguring degrowth: How traditional popular culture challenge growth-oriented common senses

    Open AccessLucía Muñoz-Sueiro, G KallisARTICLEJournal of Political Ecology2024Cited by: 1

    Traditional customs and rituals that continue to exist in the rural peripheries of industrialized countries may contain living elements that 'postfigure' alternative ways of living. We propose a new line of inquiry on postfiguration, at the intersection between anthropology and degrowth and inspired by Antonio Gramsci's work on folklore. By 'postfiguration' we refer to real and existing popular practices with a long history that have elements tha…

  • Limits to fishing: The case for collective self-limitation illustrated with an example of small-scale fisheries in Catalonia

    Open AccessBorja Nogué-Algueró, G Kallis et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Marine Science2023

    Is there a limit to the amount of fish that can be taken from the sea? This question echoes the concern of the broader environmental movement in asking: are there ‘limits to growth’? If the answer is ‘yes’, then what must be done to remain within sustainable limits? Fifty years after the publication of the landmark report Limits to Growth , new theories about limits highlight the importance of collective self-limitation, also in the context of fi…

  • An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points

    Open AccessSonia Graham, Melanie Wary et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion…

  • Post-growth: A viable path to limiting global warming to 1.5°C

    Open AccessAljoša Slameršak, G Kallis et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023

    Existing climate mitigation scenarios assume future rates of economic growth that are significantly higher than what has been experienced in the recent past. In this article we explore how assuming lower rates of growth, in line with the hypothesis of secular stagnation, changes the range of mitigation possibilities. We compare scenarios with moderate and strong policy ambition under both high-growth and low-growth assumptions. The results show t…

  • Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament

    Open AccessG Kallis, Riccardo Mastini et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 3References: 21

  • Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

    Open AccessJason Hickel, G Kallis et al.ARTICLENature2022

  • The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement

    Open AccessViviana Asara, G KallisARTICLEEnvironment and Planning C…2022Cited by: 10References: 24

    This paper investigates how the prefiguration of an alternative future by social movements produces new space through a processual dynamic. A case study of the Indignados movement in Barcelona shows how mobilizations evolved from symbolizing an alternative future in the square to constructing alternatives in the city in the post-encampment period. In the alternative projects forged during the post-square period, activists re-appropriated urban sp…

  • Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

    Open AccessSteven R Mcgreevy, Caroline Rupprecht et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 8References: 17

  • Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean

    Open AccessG Kallis, Angelos Varvarousis et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2022Cited by: 12References: 13

    In thinking about alternatives to growth-based development, we draw attention to Mediterranean islands and the way they animate imaginaries and practices of a simple life. We follow Franco Cassano’s thesis of ‘Southern thought’ – a critique of Western developmentalism, prioritizing instead values of slowness, moderation and conviviality. These values are central to what Serge Latouche and others call ‘degrowth’. Drawing on fieldwork and ethnograp…

  • For an Ecosocialist Degrowth

    Open AccessMichael Löwy, Bengi Akbulut et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2022Cited by: 1

    Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum

  • Pour une décroissance écosocialiste

    Bengi Akbulut, Sabrina Gabrielle Gomes Fernandes et al.ARTICLEEcoRev2022

    Michael Löwy, membre de la rédaction, nous fait parvenir cette déclaration écrite par des universitaires décroissants et écosocialistes, que nous publions volontiers. Elle a paru initialement dans la Monthly Review de New York en avril 2022

  • From planetary to societal boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation

    Open AccessUlrich Brand, Barbara Muraca et al.ARTICLESustainability: Science, Practice…2021

    The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capital…

  • Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios

    Open AccessJason Hickel, Paul E Brockway et al.ARTICLENature Energy2021

  • A Green New Deal without growth

    Open AccessRiccardo Mastini, G Kallis et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2021