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Economic Growth and Planetary Boundaries: The State, Democratic Economic Planning and Security

23/11/2026, 13:30 - 24/11/2026, 17:00, Essen

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together scholars to reflect on the future possibilities of post-growth transformations, focusing thematically on the state, democratic economic planning and security issues. The event features presentations of work in progress on these topics and closely related ones. Most notably, the German Committee Future Earth (DKN) Working Group ‘Rethinking Sustainable Development through Post-Growth’ provides an extended report of the results of a Delphi study conducted on the event theme.

Organisers

Matthias Kranke (College for Social Sciences and Humanities) & Halliki Kreinin (University of Tallinn, Estonia) with the DKN Working Group

Participation 

closed workshop, by invitation only

Location

College for Social Sciences and Humanities, Essen 

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