Ninety-year-old complex has been plagued with social and structural problems for decades

Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing

Everyone is told that economic growth is the key to prosperity. But what if a significant part of GDP, the number politicians obsess about, is based on a transaction that never actually happens? Aroun...

The Guardian columnist speaks about why we need to tackle global food insecurity

Research and practice for an urban degrowth The Postgrowth City Coalition is a network of researchers and practitioners advocating urban degrowth. Together, we create knowledge and practices that redu...

Degrowth critiques the global capitalist system which pursues economic growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. It exposes the interconnection of systems of oppre...

For decades, rising home prices have been an engine for middle-class wealth. Now a growing movement wants to slow — or even reverse — that trend. Are the politics around new housing development inhere...

What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared

Hence, the severe restrictions in the flow of oil though the Strait of Hormuz, resulting from the recent US-Iranian attacks, may be seen as a stark rehearsal for the consequences of a severe shock in the global oil supply, as might be experienced from a "peak oil" crisis, with volatile price spikes and supply chain disruptions.

A world without limits

But to the extent that economic growth and carbon-fuel usage are tightly linked – and not capable of being “decoupled” – some degrowth agenda is ultimately inescapable. The only question may be whether it will arrive via catastrophe or choice.

Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Madeleine Finlay hears from Nick Stern, professor of economics and government at the London School of Economics, and Jason Hickel, a political economist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, two economists arguing for a change in how we measure a country’s economic success.

- Who owns the economy? - Who pays the price for the never-ending thirst for economic growth? - How are communities resisting?

If the EU wants to meet its economic and environmental goals, it needs to reject deregulation in favour of a bolder approach