Given environmental pressures and long-term economic stagnation, GDP growth can no longer be considered as method to improve welfare resources. Max Koch discusses how researchers must investigate the relationship between growth and welfare, and policymakers must realize the environmental limitations of the economy.

We need to reset along a more equitable and smart path. But how? Here is the latest by leading experts as they debate ideas and hands-on (and new) policy solutions to this.  

We urgently need new social-ecological policies to simultaneously tackle the climate emergency and create a fairer society. Milena Buchs writes these policies would need to support societies to stay within planetary boundaries, satisfy everyone’s basic needs, achieve a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities, and enhance democratic governance.