Sufficiency as a confluence for post-growth streams - Report on the integrated analysis of the different schools of thought

Within WP 1, Task 3 (March 2023-February 2024) has two objectives:

•       To map post-growth studies based on their key insights and contributions to the post-growth agenda;
•        To design analytical and institutional paths of convergence between them in order to nourish ToBe shared visions for a new sustainability paradigm.

This report identifies three main contemporary “post-growth streams”: degrowth, Doughnut economy and the Well-being economy;

·          It argues that sufficiency is their point of convergence (or “confluence”);

·          It retraces the history of the notion of sufficiency from the Greek philosophy up until the IPCC definition in 2023;

·          It offers a refined definition of sufficiency and outlines features of “sufficiency policies”;

·          It proposes a visual design for sufficiency, the “social equator”.