What Does Degrowth Say about Gender Equality and Social Justice?

While the link between degrowth and environmental sustainability is clearly established, the same cannot be said about the relationship between planned economic contraction and gender equality. This article, co-authored by Western Academy Fellow Bipasha Baruah, seeks to understand how degrowth might be reconciled with gender equality and social justice to guide public policy and practice agendas in Canada.

Baruah, Bipasha, and Andrea Burke. “What Does Degrowth Say about Gender Equality and Social Justice?” In Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States, edited by Susan Buckingham, Martin Hultman, Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, and Karen Morrow, 159–75. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003461005-13.

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