Sustainable Degrowth Index (SDI) : Transitory indicators for paradigm shift
(2009) Transformation, Innovation and Adaptation for Sustainability – Integrating Natural and Social Sciences — Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia (29.June.2009)
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- Current environmental degradation and resource depletion challenge our societies in their fundaments. Scientific evidence show that the negative impacts of our economies are growing, while wellbeing doesn’t seem to follow this trend. Degrowth theories – i.e. a transitional period to reach global sustainability – tries to solve the ecological and social crisis through a shift in our socio-economic paradigm. To support political and societal decision-making processes, some indicators could be helpful, reason why we propose to create a new set of indicators – focused on this degrowth transition period – to reach sustainable societies. These indicators could next be aggregated in one index, able to launch the debate and its appropriation by the Civil Society. We propose to construct such an index with a pyramidal approach, highlighting a gradation inside the different levels. The current paper represents the beginning of a work in progress. The indicators are submitted to the debate, in a way to underline his abilities to engage the paradigm shift.
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FUCaM Sciences de gestion FUCaM Sciences Politiques, Sociales et de Communication
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Lievens, L. (2009). Sustainable Degrowth Index (SDI) : Transitory indicators for paradigm shift. Transformation, Innovation and Adaptation for Sustainability – Integrating Natural and Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/250477