Post-Growth Open Letter to EU institutions signed by over 200 scientists: “Europe, It’s Time to End the Growth Dependency”

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Europe, It’s Time to End the Growth Dependency

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This week, scientists, politicians, and policy makers are gathering in Brussels for a landmark conference. The aim of this event, organised by Members of the European Parliament from five different political groups, alongside trade unions and NGOs, is to explore possibilities for a ‘post-growth economy’ in Europe.

For the past seven decades, GDP growth has stood as the primary economic objective of European nations. But as our economies have grown, so has our negative impact on the environment. We are now exceeding the safe operating space for humanity on this planet, and there is no sign that economic activity is being decoupled from resource use or pollution at anything like the scale required. Today, solving social problems within European nations does not require more growth. It requires a fairer distribution of the income and wealth that we already have.

Growth is also becoming harder to achieve due to declining productivity gains, market saturation, and ecological degradation. If current trends continue, there may be no growth at all in Europe within a decade. Right now the response is to try to fuel growth by issuing more debt, shredding environmental regulations, extending working hours, and cutting social protections. This aggressive pursuit of growth at all costs divides society, creates economic instability, and undermines democracy.

Those in power have not been willing to engage with these issues, at least not until now. The European Commission’s Beyond GDP project became GDP and Beyond. The official mantra remains growth — redressed as ‘sustainable’, ‘green’, or ‘inclusive’ — but first and foremost, growth. Even the new UN Sustainable Development Goals include the pursuit of economic growth as a policy goal for all countries, despite the fundamental contradiction between growth and sustainability.

 

The good news is that within civil society and academia, a post-growth movement has been emerging. It goes by different names in different places: décroissance, Postwachstum, steady-state or doughnut economics, prosperity without growth, to name a few. Since 2008, regular degrowth conferences have gathered thousands of participants. A new global initiative, the Wellbeing Economies Alliance (or WE-All), is making connections between these movements, while a European research network has been developing new ‘ecological macroeconomic models’. Such work suggests that it’s possible to improve quality of life, restore the living world, reduce inequality, and provide meaningful jobs — all without the need for economic growth, provided we enact policies to overcome our current growth dependence.

Some of the changes that have been proposed include limits on resource use, progressive taxation to stem the tide of rising inequality, and a gradual reduction in working time. Resource use could be curbed by introducing a carbon tax, and the revenue could be returned as a dividend for everyone or used to finance social programs. Introducing both a basic and a maximum income would reduce inequality further, while helping to redistribute care work and reducing the power imbalances that undermine democracy. New technologies could be used to reduce working time and improve quality of life, instead of being used to lay off masses of workers and increase the profits of the privileged few.

Given the risks at stake, it would be irresponsible for politicians and policy makers not to explore possibilities for a post-growth future. The conference happening in Brussels is a promising start, but much stronger commitments are needed. As a group of concerned social and natural scientists representing all Europe, we call on the European Union, its institutions, and member states to:

  1.    Constitute a special commission on Post-Growth Futures in the EU Parliament. This commission should actively debate the future of growth, devise policy alternatives for post-growth futures, and reconsider the pursuit of growth as an overarching policy goal.
  2.    Incorporate alternative indicators into the macroeconomic framework of the EU and its member states. Economic policies should be evaluated in terms of their impact on human wellbeing, resource use, inequality, and the provision of decent work. These indicators should be given higher priority than GDP in decision-making.
  3.    Turn the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) into a Stability and Wellbeing Pact. The SGP is a set of rules aimed at limiting government deficits and national debt. It should be revised to ensure member states meet the basic needs of their citizens, while reducing resource use and waste emissions to a sustainable level.
  4.    Establish a Ministry for Economic Transition in each member state. A new economy that focuses directly on human and ecological wellbeing could offer a much better future than one that is structurally dependent on economic growth.

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List of signatories

  1. Dr Dan O’Neill, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
  2. Dr Federico Demaria, Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  3. Dr Giorgos Kallis, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  4. Dr Kate Raworth, Author of ‘Doughnut Economics’, UK
  5. Dr Tim Jackson, Professor, University of Surrey, UK
  6. Dr Jason Hickel, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
  7. Dr Lorenzo Fioramonti, Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa  
  8. Dr Marta Conde, President of Research & Degrowth, Spain
  9. Dr Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK
  10. Dr Steve Keen, Professor, Kingston University, UK
  11. Dr Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA
  12. Dr David Graeber, Professor, London School of Economics, UK
  13. Dr Ann Pettifor, Director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), UK
  14. Dr Serge Latouche, Université Paris Sud, France
  15. Dr Kate Pickett, Professor, University of York, UK
  16. Dr Susan George, President of the Transnational Institute-TNI, Netherlands
  17. Dr Joan Martinez Alier, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia
  18. Dr Juan Carlos Monedero Fernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  19. Dr Dominique Méda, Professor, University Paris Dauphine, France
  20. Dr Lourdes Beneria, Professor Emerita, Cornell University, USA
  21. Dr Inge Røpke, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
  22. Dr Niko Paech, Professor, University of Siegen, Germany
  23. Dr Jean Gadrey, Professor, University of Lille, France
  24. Dr Nadia Johanisova, Lecturer, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic  
  25. Dr Wolfgang Sachs, Research Director Emeritus, Wuppertal Institut, Germany
  26. Dr Stefania Barca, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  27. Dr Gilbert Rist, Emeritus Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
  28. Dr György Pataki, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
  29. Dr Simone D’Alessandro, Professor, University of Pisa, Italy
  30. Dr Ian Gough, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, UK
  31. Dr Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Researcher, University of Valladolid, Spain
  32. Dr Amaia Pérez Orozco, Researcher, Colectiva XXK, Spain
  33. Dr Max Koch, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
  34. Dr Fabrice Flipo, Professor, Institut Mines Télécom-BS et LCSP Paris 7 Diderot, France
  35. Dr Matthias Schmelzer, Researcher, University of Jena and Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, Germany
  36. Dr Óscar Carpintero, Associate Professor, University of Valladolid, Spain
  37. Dr Hubert Buch-Hansen, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  38. Dr Christos Zografos, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
  39. Dr Tereza Stöckelová, Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
  40. Dr Alf Hornborg, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
  41. Dr Eric Clark, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
  42. Dr Miklós Antal, Researcher, University of Leeds, UK
  43. Dr Jordi Roca Jusmet, Professor, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
  44. Dr Philippe Defeyt, Chairman, Institute for Sustainable Development, Belgium
  45. Dr Erik Swyngedouw, Professor, University of Manchester, UK
  46. Dr Christian Kerschner, Assistant Professor, Modul University Vienna, Austria
  47. Dr Agata Hummel, Assistant Professor, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland
  48. Dr Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  49. Dr Frank Adler, Researcher, Brandenburg-Berlin Institute for Social Scientific Research, Germany
  50. Dr Janne I. Hukkinen, Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
  51. Dr Jorge Riechmann, Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  52. Samuel Martín-Sosa Rodríguez, Responsable de Internacional, Ecologistas en Acción, Spain
  53. Dr John Barry, Professor, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
  54. Dr Linda Nierling, Senior Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  55. Dr Ines Omann, Senior Researcher, Austrian Foundation for Development Research, Austria
  56. Dr Hug March, Associate Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
  57. Dr Jakub Kronenberg, Associate Professor, University of Lodz, Poland
  58. Yayo Herrero, Miembro del Foro de Transiciones, Spain
  59. Dr Isabelle Anguelovski, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  60. Dr François Schneider, Researcher, Research & Degrowth, France
  61. Dr Vasilis Kostakis, Senior Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  62. Dr Enric Tello, Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain
  63. Dr Andrew Sayer, Professor, Lancaster University, UK
  64. Dr Kate Soper, Emerita Professor, London Metropolitan University, UK
  65. Dr Klaus Hubacek, Professor, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
  66. Dr Brent Bleys, Assistant Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
  67. Dr Jill Jäger, Independent Scholar, Vienna, Austria
  68. Dr Mauro Gallegati, Professor, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
  69. Dr Peadar Kirby, Professor Emeritus, University of Limerick, Ireland
  70. Dr Inés Marco, Researcher, University of Barcelona, Spain
  71. Dr Ivan Murray Mas, Assistant Lecturer, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
  72. Dr Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  73. Dr Aurore Lalucq, Co-Director, Veblen Institute, France
  74. Dr Gaël Plumecocq, Researcher, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France
  75. Dr David Soto Fernández, Associate Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
  76. Dr Christian Kimmich, Researcher, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
  77. Dr Giacomo D’Alisa, Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  78. Dr Seth Schindler, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK
  79. Dr Philippe Roman, Researcher, ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium
  80. Dr Lorenzo Pellegrini, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
  81. Dr Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  82. Dr Tommaso Luzzati, Assistant Professor, University of Pisa, Italy
  83. Dr Christoph Gran, ZOE Institute for Future Fit Economies, Germany
  84. Dr Tor A. Benjaminsen, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  85. Dr Barry McMullin, Professor, Dublin City University, Ireland
  86. Dr Edwin Zaccai, Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  87. Dr Jens Friis Lund, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  88. Dr Pierre Ozer, Researcher, Université de Liège, Belgium
  89. Dr Louison Cahen-Fourot, Researcher, Institute for Ecological Economics, Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna, Austria
  90. Dr Tommaso Rondinella, Researcher, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy
  91. Dr Julia Steinberger, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
  92. Dr Andrew Fanning, Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK
  93. Jose Luis Fdez Casadevante Kois, Miembro del Foro Transiciones, Spain
  94. Dr Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  95. Dr Astrid Agenjo Calderón, Lecturer, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
  96. Dr Tom Bauler, Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  97. Dr Gregers Andersen, Independent Researcher, Denmark
  98. Dr Peter Söderbaum, Professor Emeritus, Mälardalen University, Sweden
  99. Dr Lourenzo Fernandez Priero, Professor, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  100. Dr John R Porter, Emeritus Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  101. Dr François Thoreau, Senior Researcher, University of Liege, France
  102. Mariagiulia Costanzo Talarico, Researcher, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
  103. Dr Maria Nikolaidi, Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich, UK
  104. Dr Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Lecturer, Lund University, Sweden
  105. Dr Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, Assistant Professor, University of Roskilde, Denmark
  106. Dimitar Sabev, Researcher, University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
  107. Dr Mladen Domazet, Research Director, Institute for Political Ecology, Croatia
  108. Dr Hans Diefenbacher, Professor, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  109. Dr Marco Armiero, Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  110. Dr Irene Ring, Professor, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
  111. Dr Christine Bauhardt, Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  112. Dr Dominique Bourg, Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  113. Dr Tomas Ryska, Lecturer, University of Economics, Czech Republic
  114. Dr Filka Sekulova, Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  115. Dr Andrej Lukšič, Associate Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  116. Dr Adrian Smith, Professor, University of Sussex, UK
    Dr Serenella Iovino, Professor, Università di Torino, Italy
  117. Dr Helga Kromp-Kolb, Professor, University of Renewable Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  118. Dr Roberto De Vogli, Associate Professor, University of Padova, Italy
  119. Dr Danijela Dolenec, Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  120. Dr Alexandra Köves, Senior Lecturer, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
  121. Dr Antoine Bailleux, Professor, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, Belgium
  122. Dr Christof Mauch, Director, Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Germany
  123. Ajda Pistotnik, Independent Researcher, EnaBanda, Slovenia
  124. Dr Branko Ančić, Researcher, Institute for Social Research for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia
  125. Dr Marija Brajdic Vukovic, Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  126. Dr Manuel González de Molina, Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
  127. Dr Kye Askins, Reader, University of Glasgow, UK
  128. Dr Carlos de Castro Carranza, Profesor Titular de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
  129. Dr Annika Pissin, Researcher, Lund University, Sweden
  130. Dr Eva Fraňková, Assistant Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
  131. Dr Helga Kromp-Kolb, Professor, University of Renewable Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  132. Dr Lidija Živčič, Senior Expert, Focus, Association for Sustainable Development, Slovenia
  133. Dr Martin Pogačar, Research Fellow, ZRC SAZU, Slovenia
  134. Dr Peter Nielsen, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
  135. Yaryna Khmara, Researcher, University of Lodz, Poland
  136. Dr Ika Darnhofer, Associate Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
  137. Dr Isabelle Cassiers, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  138. Dr Mihnea Tanasescu, Researcher, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
  139. Dr Daniel Hausknost, Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Change and Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
  140. Dr Christoph Görg, Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
  141. Dr Andreas Novy, Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
  142. Dr Fikret Adaman, Professor, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
  143. Dr Bengi Akbulut, Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Canada
  144. Dr Kevin Maréchal, Professor, Université de Liège, Belgium.
  145. Dr Anke Schaffartzik, Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  146. Dr Milena Buchs, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
  147. Dr Jean-Louis Aillon, Researcher, University of Genova, Italy
  148. Dr Melanie Pichler, Researcher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
  149. Dr Helmut Haberl, Associate Professor, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
  150. Dr Julien-François Gerber, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
  151. Dr John Holten-Andersen, Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
  152. Theresa Klostermeyer, Officer for Sustainability and Social Change, German League for Nature, Animal and Environmental Protection, Germany
  153. Dr Lyla Mehta, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, UK
  154. Dr Geneviève Azam, Professor, Université Jean Jaurès, France
  155. Dr Hermann E. Ott, Professor, University of Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Germany
  156. Dr Angelika Zahrnt, Professor, Institute for Ecological Economic Research, Germany
  157. Dr Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK
  158. Dr Irmi Seidl, Assistant Professor, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland
  159. Dr Shilpi Srivastava, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, UK
  160. Dr Elgars Felcis, Researcher, University of Latvia, Chairman of Latvian Permaculture Association, Latvia
  161. Dr Tilman Santarius, Professor, Technische Universität Berlin and Einstein Center Digital Futures, Germany
  162. Nina Treu, Coordinator of Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, Germany
  163. Dr Laura Horn, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
  164. Jennifer Hinton, Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
  165. Dr Friedrich Hinterberger, President, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria
  166. Dr Miriam Lang, Assistant Professor, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Ecuador
  167. Dr Susse Georg, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
  168. Dr Silvio Cristiano, Researcher, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Parthenope’ & Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
  169. Dr Petr Jehlička, Senior Lecturer, Open University, UK
  170. Dr Maja Göpel, Professor, Leuphana University, Member Club of Rome, Germany
  171. Dr Geraldine Thiry, Associate Professor, ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium
  172. Dr Olivier Malay, Researcher, University of Louvain, Belgium
  173. Dr Richard Lane, Researcher, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Netherlands
  174. Dr Laura Centemeri, Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research, France
  175. Dr Stephan Lessenich, Professor, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
  176. Timothée Parrique, Researcher, Stockholm University, Sweden
  177. Dr Ludivine Damay, Lecturer, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  178. Dr Janis Brizga, Researcher, University of Latvia, Latvia
  179. Dr Claudio Cattaneo, Associate Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  180. Dr Miquel Ortega Cerdà, Advisor, Barcelona City Council
  181. Dr Olivier De Schutter, Professor, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium  
  182. Dr Annalisa Colombino, Assistant Professor, Institute of Geography and Regional Sciences, University of Graz, Austria
  183. Dr Philip von Brockdorff, Head of the Department of Economics, University of Malta, Malta
  184. Dr Sarah Cornell, Senior Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
  185. Dr Ruth Kinna, Professor of Political Theory, Loughborough University, UK
  186. Francesco Gonella, Professor, Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
  187. Orsolya Lazanyi, Researcher, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
  188. Dr Eva Friman, Director at Swedesd, Uppsala University, Sweden
  189. Dr Pernilla Hagbert, Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  190. Vincent Liegey, Co-Author of “A Degrowth Project”, Hungary
  191. Dr Manlio Iofrida, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna, Italy
  192. Dr Mauro Bonaiuti, Lecturer, University of Turin, Italy
  193. Dr Marco Deriu, Researcher, University of Parma, Italy
  194. Dr Eeva Houtbeckers, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University, Finland
  195. Dr Guy Julier, Professor, Aalto University, Finland
  196. Dr Anna Kaijser, Lecturer, Linköping University, Sweden
  197. Dr Petter Næss, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  198. Dr Irina Velicu, Researcher, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  199. Dr Ulrich Brand, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
  200. Dr Christina Plank, Researcher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
  201. Dr Karolina Isaksson, Senior Research Leader, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Sweden
  202. Dr Jin Xue, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  203. Dr Rasmus Steffansen, Researcher, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  204. Dr Irmak Ertör, Researcher, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
  205. Dr Maria Hadjimichael, Researcher, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  206. Dr Carlo Aall, Researcher in Societal Transformation and Climate Change, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
  207. Dr Claudiu Craciun, Lecturer, National School of Political Studies and Administration (SNSPA), Romania
  208. Dr Tuuli Hirvilammi, Researcher, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  209. Dr Tuula Helne, Senior Researcher, The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Finland
  210. Davide Biolghini, Researcher, Rete italiana Economia Solidale (RES), Italy
  211. Dr Pasi Heikkurinen, Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK
  212. Dr Anne Tittor, Researcher, Junior Research Group Bioeconomy & Inequalities, University of Jena, Germany
  213. Dr Dennis Eversberg, Researcher, DFG Research Group on Postgrowth Societies, University of Jena, Germany
  214. Dr Herman Stål, Lecturer, Umea School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Sweden
  215. Dr Hervé Corvellec, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
  216. Dr Anna Heikkinen, Researcher, University of Tampere, Finland
  217. Dr Karl Bonnedahl, Researcher, Umea University, Sweden
  218. Dr Meri Koivusalo, Professor, University of Tampere, Finland
  219. Dr Martin Fritz, Researcher in Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany
  220. Dr Daniel Bergquist, Researcher, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  221. Dr Yuri Kazepov, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
  222. Dr Salvador Pueyo, Researcher, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia
  223. Dr Lars Rydén, Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
  224. Patrick ten Brink, Director of EU Policy, European Environmental Bureau, Belgium
  225. Dr Ebba Lisberg Jensen,  Associate Professor, Malmö University, Sweden
  226. Dr Alevgul H. Sorman, Researcher, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Spain
  227. Dr Aram Ziai, Professor, University of Kassel, Germany
  228. Dr Panos Petridis, Researcher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria
  229. Dr Gary Dymski, Professor, University of Leeds, UK
  230. Dr Markus Wissen, Professor, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
  231. Dr Wendy Harcourt, Professor, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, The Netherlands
  232. Dr John Barrett, Professor, University of Leeds, UK
  233. Dr Silke van Dyk, Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
  234. Dr Vasna Ramasar, Senior Lecturer, Lund University, Sweden
  235. Danijela Tamše, Managing Editor of the Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and New Anthropology, Slovenia
  236. Dr Camil Ungureanu, Associate Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  237. Dr Mirela Holy, Lecturer, VERN’ University of Zagreb, Croatia
  238. Dr Barbara Smetschka, Researcher, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Austria
  239. Dr Nicola Costantino, Professor, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  240. Dr Jovanka Špirić, Researcher, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
  241. Dr Lucia Piani, Researcher, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
  242. Dr Drago Župarić-Iljić, Research Associate, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Croatia
  243. Lidija Srnec, Senior adviser, Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia

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