
From ‘green growth’ to a ‘good life’
Nora Räthzel and Valeria Pulignano
The Green Deal assumes economic growth can be ‘decoupled’ from ecological damage. That’s wishful thinking.
Author profile
Nora Räthzel is professor of sociology at at Umeå University, Sweden. Her latest publication, with David Uzzell and Dimitris Stevis, is The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies. She is leading a research project funded by the Swedish research council FORTE, 'Workers as agents of a green and just transition'.

Nora Räthzel and Valeria Pulignano
The Green Deal assumes economic growth can be ‘decoupled’ from ecological damage. That’s wishful thinking.