Post Growth Innovation
Resisting the Pursuit of Endless Economic Growth
By Mario Pansera and Javier Lloveras
Published
Dec 1, 2025Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1529249941Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Dec 1, 2025Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1529249958Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Post Growth Innovation
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Post growth and degrowth scholars argue that we cannot reduce CO2 emissions fast enough to keep global warming below 2 degrees while continuing economic growth. We face a choice: either we innovate how to scale down production and consumption equitably, or we risk severe environmental and social consequences.
Yet the role of innovation remains largely unexplored within contemporary post growth debates. This book fills that gap, examining the narratives, processes and practices needed to break free from the growth imperative.
It offers a bridge for understanding the far-reaching implications of technological and scientific advancements in a society that challenges economic growth as its central focus.
Mario Pansera is Director of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab and OPORTUNIUS Research Professor at the University of Vigo.
Javier Lloveras is Co-director of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vigo.
1. How Innovation Fuels Growth Ideology and Why This is Leading Us to Disaster
2. What is Innovation and Why it Matters for a Post-Growth Society
3. Caring and Maintaining
4. Organizations and Institutions for Post–Growth
5. Beyond the Bicycle: Scale and Complexity Within Limits
6. What it Means Today to Democratise Technology?
