Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌

Looking forward to discussing these questions with you next week!

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

Wow, historic & makes my day. "Labour can't out-reform Reform" - if this isn't a lesson Labour will learn from then I don't know what is ... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Defining growth dependence - Sustainability Science Sustainability Science - Many socio-economic systems require positive economic growth rates to function properly. These growth dependencies pose serious challenges given uncertainty about future...

📢 New publication on "Defining growth dependence" in Sustainability Science!

👉 Framework for defining growth dependence
👉 Application to labor markets, social insurance and public finance
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#postgrowth #greentransition #degrowth #sustainability #justtransition

Doughnut economics, degrowth and decoloniality. New directions for the Doughnut Portrait method Transformative action is required to respond to the polycrisis of our age, across climate/ecological breakdown and mounting social inequalities. Doughnut economics and its “Portrait of Place” metho...

📢Our new paper is out: "Doughnut economics, degrowth and decoloniality. New directions for the Doughnut Portrait method" shorturl.at/KHI6y led by #PaulChatterton & with #JoelMillward-Hopkins, #catrionarawsthorne & #AnishaSolanki

Quick reminder of our PhD position at Leeds Uni on justice and UK climate policies, application deadline 6 March 2026

Perspectives on Social and Justice Issues in Climate Policy – Comparing the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco‐Social Policy Literatures Mapping the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Literatures along the axes of capitalism/growth approaches and global justice demonstrates that there is a large gap in researc...

Our review of the #justtransitions, #sustainablewelfare & #eco-socialpolicy literatures is now out, comparing views on growth & capitalism, work & welfare and global justice. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with @maxkoch.bsky.social @veratrappmann.bsky.social & Gina Moran

Perspectives on Social and Justice Issues in Climate Policy – Comparing the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco‐Social Policy Literatures Mapping the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Literatures along the axes of capitalism/growth approaches and global justice demonstrates that there is a large gap in researc....

Nice to start the week with publication of a co-authored review on #Justice Issues in #Climate Policy led by @mmbuchs.bsky.social. What are the sustainable #welfare and #JustTransitions literatures saying, e.g., on capitalism and growth?
Check it out:
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yes it is! Went back yesterday as we hadn't managed the whole exhibition before, and also discovered @steffenlange.bsky.social in a section on beyond growth 😀 👍

Very pleased to see that the Museum for Futures in Berlin has a whole section on Doughnut Economics!!! @kateraworth.bsky.social 🍩😀💕 #futurium

PhD position @ Uni Leeds on justice & UK climate policies shorturl.at/WNqiV supervised by myself and Dr @anneowen.bsky.social - pl consider applying / forwarding to potential candidates 🙏

Please note: only UK fees applicants will be eligible.
Application deadline: 6 March 2026

Many thanks to @marietouss1.bsky.social, baseickhout.bsky.social & Francois Denuit for organising this event and to the other speakers, @drmariannaleite.bsky.social @chloemiko.bsky.social, Isabelle Schömann & Mario Nava for great inputs, plus excellent audience questions 👍

It was great to discuss so many important ideas for eradicating poverty beyond growth at the EU Parliament event this week shorturl.at/k0kcG! Can't wait for Olivier de Schutter's @deschuttero.bsky.social roadmap being published in spring 2026 🙂

New Cronos3 survey shows that a majority of participants in all 11 countries agree that environmental protection is more important than economic growth and creating jobs! infra4nextgen.com/make-it-gree...

How can we move the #EU beyond its fixation on destructive GDP growth as the answer to #poverty?

Join me @baseickhout.bsky.social @marietouss1.bsky.social @mmbuchs.bsky.social @drmariannaleite.bsky.social @chloemiko.bsky.social & others in Brussels/online www.beyond-growth-2023.eu/about-the-co...

Looking forward to discussing the immensely good and important report by UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier de Schutter on "Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth" docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/56/61 at this event 🙂

Looking forward to this!

Meanwhile

Good references that explain the difference between degrowth and recession are @jasonhickel.bsky.social's Less Is More (2020) and @giorgoskallis.bsky.social's Degrowth (2018)

Loved the @boldpolitics.bsky.social episode with @graceblakeley.substack.com! Only comment it's so important not to equate degrowth / postgrowth with recession! DG/PG are non-capitalist economic systems which prioritise equitable wellbeing & ecological outcomes & make them independent from growth.

Co-Deputy Leaders' Speech - Rachel Millward & Mothin Ali at Green Party Conference 2025 YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

The co-deputy leaders have so much to say too: Rachel Millward from 9:45, Mothin Ali from 25:35 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1w...

Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025 YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

As usual, the media didn't pay much attention to the Green Party conference. But there is much to be inspired here - wealth taxes, ending privatisation of essential infrastructures and services, pro-migration and diversity, ecological protection ... Polanski fr. 18:40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZx9...

Thank, im also looking forward to reading it (and do have access)

Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Claus Offe ist verstorben. In Erinnerung bleibt mir u.a. seine Begabung, den Kern komplexer Theorien und dicker Bücher in wenigen, leicht verständlichen Sätzen zusammenzufassen, seine die Welt erschließenden Vierfelder-Schemata und sein Gespür für die Paradoxien moderner Gesellschaften.

I'm deeply saddened by the news that Claus Offe has passed away. He had a profound influence on me as my PhD supervisor and I kept learning from him over the years. Thank you for everything and rest in peace!

Here is our new piece in Lancet Planetary Health on the #WellbeingEconomy and public health, thanks to @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social for leading this :-)

Hardcopy of the book "The eco-social polity?" on a desk

It has arrived! First ideas for this project were already exchanged with @brisunipress.bsky.social at ESPAnet 2019 - but now it has become real! As hardcopy, but (thanks to generous funding by @uni-hamburg.de) also open access: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-eco-soci...

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...

There is now a petition against the UK gov's crazy airport expansion plans in case you'd like to sign too :-) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Europe in the Postgrowth Era: Towards a Sustainable Welfare Deal Europe is confronted with a multiple crisis while coming to grips with its colonial legacy. Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) gro...

I delivered the last @jcms-eu.bsky.social annual lecture, a arguing that #Europe needs to enter the #postgrowth era to come to grips with the #social-ecological crisis and its colonial legacy. I also outline a #sustainable #welfare deal for the EU #degrowth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting fiction + climate change project by my former colleague @dabaden.bsky.social!

Maybe of interest @aknighton.bsky.social?