Deceitful Decoupling : Misconceptions of a Persistent Myth
Sorman, Alevgul H. (Basque Centre for Climate Change (Bilbao))

Publicació:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023
Resum:	Decoupling has been and continues to be a discourse used to prolong business as usual growth strategies without confronting systemic and behavioural changes. While decoupling narratives have emerged in the past in the form of its close siblings such as the Environmental Kuznets Curve, green economy, eco-efficiency, eco-innovation, and more recently, the circular economy; scholars, especially from the ecological economics community, continue to systematically challenge decoupling both empirically and theoretically. Many meta-studies have concluded that absolute resource, energy, and emissions decoupling, when internalising for trade and consumption in tandem, results in futile. Therefore, institutionalising decoupling for future policy prolongs the misconception of a persistent myth, propagating a deceitful narrative failing to tackle the urgency of the climate crisis. In this chapter, several recent publications and developments are discussed and synthesised from a unique insight with contributions from the Barcelona school of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. In conclusion, the chapter presents a case for the rejection of decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth and calls for just, inclusive, and biophysically grounded transformative futures.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Col·lecció:	Studies in Ecological Economics ; 8
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicat a:	The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. A Companion in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier, 2023, p. 165-177, ISBN 978-3-031-22566-6

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22566-6_15

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