Degrowth and sustainability pathways

About the course

Course period: 22 April-1 June 2025 

Application deadline: 24 March 2025

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Overview

In the context of a climate and planetary emergency and the failure of ‘green growth’ solutions there is an increasing demand from society and students to learn about societal models that function without growth. This course will offer this by placing wellbeing for all species and natural systems at the center and rethinking our social systems independent of economic growth in fields such as work culture and labor, decision-making. 

Focusing on theoretical, yet empirically anchored, themes such as sustainable welfare, steady-state economy, sustainable wellbeing economy, work, care, conviviality and justice, the course unfolds strengths and limitations of these themes in the context of achieving socio-ecological sustainability, as informed by a range of complexities and scalar dimensions.

Entry requirements and selection

Applicants must be admitted to a doctoral programme. If the number of applicants exceeds the number of available places in the course, students affiliated to Agenda 2030 Research Graduate School, Lund University, will be given priority.

Please read more about the the Agenda 2030 Graduate School on Sustainability Forum's website