Introduction: economics and climate emergency
1. ‘The economy’ as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis
2. What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification
3. What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel’s ‘A few points of clarification’
4. Economics and the climate catastrophe
5. Apologists for growth: passive revolutionaries in a passive revolution
6. The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change
7. The failure of Integrated Assessment Models as a response to ‘climate emergency’ and ecological breakdown: the Emperor has no clothes
8. Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education
9. Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures
10. In search of a political economy of the postgrowth era
11. Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology
12. Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: towards a comprehensive policy
13. From climate change to economic change? Reflections on ‘feedback’
14. The regenerative turn: on the re-emergence of reciprocity embedded in living ecologies
15. The global climate of land politics
16. From the Paris Agreement to the Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries Framework: an interview with Will Steffen
17. Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out?
18. Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity
19. Fiddling while the planet burns? COP25 in perspective
20. Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
21. Climate and food inequality: the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response
22. The global south, degrowth and The Simpler Way movement: the need for structural solutions at the global level
23. Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization
24. Deep Restoration: from The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening