Leverhulme Lecture: Giorgos Kallis - The Ecological Economics of Degrowth

Leverhulme Lecture: Prof Giorgos Kallis, an environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, is currently a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London. In this Leverhulme Lecture he will present the basic principles of the interdisciplinary field of ecological economics and argue from their perspective that green growth is implausible. He will claim that if we are to radically reduce carbon emissions, we have to abolish the pursuit of economic growth and develop institutions and structures that secure social sustainability under conditions of economic stagnation or contraction, what he calls the 'sustainable degrowth hypothesis'.