Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

The ongoing climate and environmental breakdown, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russian war in Ukraine are some of the key events creating a continuous convergence of crises that will likely affect most societal groups and the whole global (dis)order. How is that affecting the global semi-periphery of Latvia? Converging crises also include “irreversible impacts as natural and human systems are pushed beyond their ability to adapt” (IPCC, 2022: 8), further transgression of planetary boundaries (Steffen et al., 2015a), biodiversity loss, resource, and overall environmental degradation (Steffen et al., 2015b, Ripple et al., 2017, Ceballos et al., 2017, Hickel, 2020, IPBES, 2019). However, the lack of attention on the IPCC report on the fifth day of Russian invasion in Ukraine perfectly demonstrated how an immediate crisis trumps distant crises and environmental breakdown is both present and more invisible than the immediate war or economic recession. Based on research within the Latvian Council of Science funded project ‘Ready for change? Sustainable management of common natural resources’, this paper explores firstly, the already visible signs of socioeconomic hardship throughout 2022-2023 and secondly, the possible degrowth pathways in global semi-periphery of Latvia, based on surveys, qualitative research, and participatory action research.

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Day: 2023-08-30
Start time: 12:45
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-8-3
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Degrowth in the year 2023

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