The sufficiency strategy
Would rich-world frugality lower environmental impact
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14865279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blake Alcott (0000-0002-3082-468X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 770-786 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecological Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-8009 • E-ISSN: 1873-6106 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.04.015 |
| OpenAlex | W2060375343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 87 |
| References cited | 103 |
Economics · Frugality · Intergenerational equity · Natural resource economics · Political science · Sociology · Sustainability · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting · Law
Sufficiency values through commoning relationality
Who is sufficient, and why? A mixed-methods approach to the social determinants of sufficiency lifestyles in the pursuit of decarbonisation
Overcoming Resistance to Climate Action in the Global North
Implicações dos conceitos da sustentabilidade no design
Framing sufficiency
Sufficiency, Liberal Societies and Environmental Policy in the Face of Planetary Boundaries
Uma questão de poder
How Circular Is the Global Economy? A Sociometabolic Analysis
Missing carbon reductions? Exploring rebound and backfire effects in UK households
Sufficiency transitions
Power
Strong sustainable consumption governance – precondition for a degrowth path?
Voluntary Simplicity and the Social Reconstruction of Law
Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of Tradable White Certificates Compared to Taxes, Subsidies and Regulations
Comparing frugality and inclusion in innovation for development
Comparing and Combining Energy Saving Policies
Demand-side emission reduction through behavior change or technology adoption? Empirical evidence from UK heating, mobility, and electricity use
Efficiency and distributional impacts of tradable white certificates compared to taxes, subsidies and regulations
Advancing Theory and Practice Concerning CO 2 e Emissions
Tourism, technology and ICT
Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth
Corporate biodiversity risk exposure in China
Commons-based peer production for degrowth? - The case for eco-sufficiency in economic organisations
Measuring the Ecological Impact of the Wealthy
Energy consumption and working hours
The logics of frugality
Governing Jevons’ Paradox
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in Covid-19 green recoveries
Citizens call for sufficiency and regulation — A comparison of European citizen assemblies and National Energy and Climate Plans
Interdisciplinary energy research and energy consumption
Climate change and individual duties
Can ‘Sufficiency’ reconcile social and environmental goals? A Q-methodological analysis of German housing policy
Strongly sustainable development goals
Stakeholders on Meat Production, Meat Consumption and Mitigation of Climate Change
Sustainability Matrix
Ethical Issues in Mitigation of Climate Change
Sufficiency Economy Across Cultures
Pick Simply the Best
Could working less reduce pressures on the environment? A cross-national panel analysis of OECD countries, 1970–2007
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research
Does Frugal Innovation Enable Sustainable Development? A Systematic Literature Review
Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment
Circular economy, operational eco-efficiency, and sufficiency. An integrated view
Degrowth and the Global South
Sufficiency without regret
Frugal abundance
Engaging high-income earners in climate action
Sufficiency
What to gain, what to lose? A taxonomy of individual-level gains and losses associated with consumption reduction
Governance for global stewardship
Positionnement et éléments de cadrage préalable pour aborder les transitions numérique et écologique
Sufficiency planning
Thrifty, green or frugal
Talkin’ bout a revolution
Work less, do less
Hybrid Bottom Line
From sufficiency principles to circular economy strategies
Reshaping Urban Infrastructure
A Material History of Australia
Understanding the Climate Mitigation Benefits of Product Systems
Rebound effect and sustainability science
The rebound effect of dematerialization and decoupling
Working Hours and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the United States, 2007–2013
The limits of energy sufficiency
Exploring sufficiency in meat diets
Advancing to a Circular Economy
The idea of weak sustainability is illegitimate
What will be the environmental effects of new free-floating car-sharing systems? The case of car2go in Ulm
The economic and financial dimensions of degrowth
Legal Institutions and Ecological Economics
Ecological sufficiency, individual liberties, and distributive justice
Population matters in ecological economics
More Leisure or Higher Pay? A Mixed-methods Study on Reducing Working Time in Austria
Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm
Are emotions to blame? — The impact of non-analytical information processing on decision-making and implications for fostering sustainability
Environment versus growth — A criticism of “degrowth” and a plea for “a-growth”
Environmental impacts of productivity-led working time reduction
Three Scenario Narratives for a Resource-Efficient and Low-Carbon Europe in 2050
The bare necessities
To spend or to avoid? A critical review on the role of money in aiming for sufficiency
Planning for a future free from rebound effects
Enfin la soutenabilité forte ? Économie hétérodoxe et monde post-Covid 19
Comparing ecological sustainability in autocracies and democracies
Framing social-ecological transformation as a geographical concept
Post-growth strategies can be more feasible than techno-fixes
Two types of 'enough
A Tale of Two Critics
The overworked American
Energy at the Crossroads
The New Palgrave
The High Price of Materialism
Exploring the Black Box
Energy efficiency and consumption — the rebound effect — a survey
Environmental Sustainability
Economic Implications of Mandated Efficiency in Standards for Household Appliances
The New Ecological Paradigm in Social-Psychological Context
Defining the rebound effect
Social Limits to Growth
Changing Behavior and Making it Stick
The greenhouse effect
The Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate and Neoclassical Growth
Energy and the U.S. Economy
Applying Growth Theory across Countries
Inside the Black Box
Thorstein Veblen in the Twenty-First Century
Utilitarianism and Beyond
Culture and Consumption
A Treatise on Political Economy in 1823
The World of Consumption
The Factor X Debate
Indicators of Dematerialization and the Materials Intensity of Use
Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function
The dynamics of willingness to consume
Economic growth and quality of life
Beyond the economics of more
Environmentally sustainable household consumption
Consumption, sustainable welfare and human needs—with reference to UK expenditure patterns between 1954 and 1994
From ownership to service use lifestyle
Change in CO2 emission and its transmissions between Korea and Japan using international input–output analysis
Status-seeking and material affluence
Consumption and environment
Consumer efficiency in conflict with GDP growth
What can be done to reduce overconsumption
Refunded emission payments theory, distribution of costs, and Swedish experience of NOx abatement
Evolutionary psychology in ecological economics
Prices and quantities
Squaring the circle? Some thoughts on the idea of sustainable development
Combining economic and environmental dimensions
Legal institutions, environmental protection, and the willingness-to-accept measure of value
Jevons' paradox
Why Northern income growth is not the solution to Southern poverty
Willing consumers—or locked-in? Policies for a sustainable consumption
Technological progress and sustainable development
A biophysical analysis of the energy/real GDP ratio
Developments in the throughput-income relationship
Perceptual and structural barriers to investing in natural capital
The impact of population pressure on global carbon dioxide emissions, 1975–1996
Approaches to Encouraging Conservation Behavior
Confronting Consumption
Population, resources, and environment
Multiple-Scale Integrated Assessments of Societal Metabolism
Reflections on sustainability, population growth, and the environment
Growth Theory, an Exposition
Psychological, Cultural, and Informational Barriers to Sustainability
The Economics of Exhaustible Resources
On Total Productivity and All That
The Effects of Consumption of Wealth On Distribution
Wealth and Life
Another View of Development, Ecological Degradation, and North-South Trade
The Limits to Satisfaction
A theory of human motivation
Statuspräferenzen
Live Better by Consuming Less
The relationship between income and subjective well-being
Is happiness relative
| Unique citing works | 87 |
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| Citations per year | 4,83 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 80 |