Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

The concept of ‘planetary boundaries’, worked out by Rockström et al. (2009), and the need to guarantee some social minima were integrated into a unified picture by Raworth (2012, 2017) who proposed a doughnut-shaped ‘safe and just space’ for humanity to live in. Since then, research has sought to focus on its empirical definition and determine in what respects countries position themselves inside or outside the doughnut. The present paper tackles this issue with a novel approach that provides results that are easier to interpret and communicate than those of previous studies. The combination of different normalisation, aggregation and weighting techniques of relevant indicators yields a set of composite indicators which, through uncertainty analysis, ends up with two synthetic robust thresholds. Our methodology allows countries’ performances to be more directly compared to social and planetary boundaries, leveraging on a balance between the need for a synthetic overview when a large number of variables is involved and the loss of significant information when indicators are aggregated into composites.

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Day: 2023-09-01
Start time: 10:00
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-KC-Cres
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon

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