Is a New Economic System Necessary to Address Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Stuart (0000-0003-1479-2208, Northern Arizona University, corresponding author), R Gunderson (0000-0002-3837-0723, Miami University), Brian Petersen (0000-0003-4208-441X, Northern Arizona University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.70003 |
| OpenAlex | W4407810373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 144 |
An increasing number of leading scientists have stated that societies must transition away from a growing economic system to address climate change. Other scholars have called for general “system change” or specifically transitioning to a postcapitalist economy. Yet is a new economic system necessary to address the climate crisis? Answering this question requires examining the relevant research and empirical evidence about the relationships between economic growth, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions as well as a deeper understanding of what defines the current economic system and how changing that system might allow for more rapid and effective mitigation measures. This overview examines key elements of this discussion including: if a capitalist system is growth‐dependent, the empirical linkages between economic growth and climate change, what alternative economic systems have been proposed, and what a transition to a postcapitalist economic system aimed to address climate change might entail
Biology · Climate change · Geography · Political science · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Ecology
Degrowth
The Hegemony of Growth
Prosperity without Growth
Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997–2013
Environmentally efficient well-being
Scientists’ warning on affluence
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and economic growth
C degrowth scenarios suggest the need for new mitigation pathways
Questioning economic growth
Global Carbon Budget 2023
Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible?
Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects
Global carbon inequality
Income inequality and depression
The happiness–income paradox revisited
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II
Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target
Capitalism in the web of life
Cannibal Capitalism
The Spirit Level
A History of Socialist Thought
Prolegomenon to a Structural Human Ecology of Human Well-Being
This changes everything
Countering corporate violence
Interrogating the Treadmill of Production
The Treadmill of Accumulation
Relocating Energy in the Social Commons
The Origins of Capitalist Development
Regime of Obstruction
Eco-Socialism
The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism
Eco-Socialism or Eco-Capitalism
Degrowth
Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth
Marx in the Anthropocene
Climate Change Solutions
Working Hours and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the United States, 2007–2013
The role of large—scale BECCS in the pursuit of the 1.5°C target
The Modern World-System III
The rebound effect and the challenge of moving beyond fossil fuels
How inequality fuels climate change
Post-growth
Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C
De-growth
A further critique of growth economics
Degrowth vs. Green Growth. A computational review and interdisciplinary research agenda
Years of Degrowth Research
A Green New Deal without growth
Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament
Wealth Inequality and Carbon Emissions in High-income Countries
Understanding the Jevons paradox
Energy consumption and working hours
Energy transitions or additions
Work time reduction and economic democracy as climate change mitigation strategies
From personal responsibility to an eco-socialist state
Inequality, poverty, and the carbon intensity of human well-being in the United States
Understanding different perspectives on economic growth and climate policy
What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification
The Political Economy of Climate Change Litigation
Is Green Growth Possible
The Paradoxical Relationship between Renewable Energy and Economic Growth
Carbon dioxide emissions in the short run
Seeking a handle on climate change
Degrowth and the Global South
Sufficiency
Degrowth through income and wealth caps
Less and more
What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology
Beyond Jobs vs Environment
The enemy of nature
Economic democracy
Democratic Planning for Degrowth
On Technology and Degrowth
Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism
Ecology Against Capitalism
Degrowth and Socialism
Nine Theses on Ecosocialist Degrowth
Marx and the Environment
Capitalism and Degrowth
Planned Degrowth
Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change
Creative self-destruction
Capitalism, Socialism and the Challenge of Degrowth
Plenitude
Limiting money
The Exit from Capitalism Has Already Begun
Capitalism and extreme poverty
Capitalism
Critical Reflections on America's Green New Deal
The State of the Global Carbon Trade Debate
Raising the bar
How to turn an ocean liner
Degrowth
The struggle for use value
Socialism Without Growth
Ecosocialism for Realists
What is ecosocialism
Ecosocialists and Degrowth Advocates Should Work Together
Ecosocialisms, Past, Present and Future
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |