ABSTRACT
The ideas and approaches in this book are intended to be applicable to research and science-based activism and practice to develop priorities and strategies for embedding mutual human-Earth enhancement at and across all scales, local to global, and in an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary way. As an emerging alternative response to humanity living beyond its means, the degrowth movement is a natural testing ground for the transition to ecological law. Degrowth involves a downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological integrity and inter-human and inter-species fairness and is a rigorous critique of growth-insistence and the prevailing international understanding of sustainable development. Degrowth has a negative connotation, but can be flipped around to focus on promoting positive growth of things that decline as the economy grows: for example, ecological integrity, biodiversity, cultural diversity, compassion, equity, solidarity and respect for life.
