Pretty, Jules;
Garrity, Dennis;
Badola, Hemant Kumar;
Barrett, Mike;
Butler Flora, Cornelia;
Cameron, Catherine;
Grist, Natasha;
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(2025)
How the Concept of "Regenerative Good Growth" Could Help Increase Public and Policy Engagement and Speed Transitions to Net Zero and Nature Recovery.
Sustainability
, 17
(3)
, Article 849. 10.3390/su17030849.
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Abstract
Just and fair transitions to low-carbon and nature-positive ways of living need to occur fast enough to limit and reverse the climate and nature crises, but not so fast that the public is left behind. We propose the concept of “Regenerative Good Growth” (RGG) to replace the language and practice of extractive, bad GDP growth. RGG centres on the services provided by five renewable capitals: natural, social, human, cultural, and sustainable physical. The term “growth” tends to divide rather than unite, and so here we seek language and storylines that appeal to a newly emergent climate-concerned majority. Creative forms of public engagement that lead to response diversity will be essential to fostering action: when people feel coerced into adopting single options at pace, there is a danger of backlash or climate authoritarianism. Policy centred around storytelling can help create diverse public responses and institutional frameworks. The practises underpinning RGG have already created business opportunities, while delivering sharp falls in unit costs. Fast transitions and social tipping points are emerging in the agricultural, energy, and city sectors. Though further risks will emerge related to rebound effects and lack of decoupling of material consumption from GDP, RGG will help cut the externalities of economies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How the Concept of "Regenerative Good Growth" Could Help Increase Public and Policy Engagement and Speed Transitions to Net Zero and Nature Recovery |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su17030849 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su17030849 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 by the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Regenerative Good Growth; bad GDP growth; climate crisis; nature crisis; renewable assets; public engagement; story and hope; social tipping points; backlash; green authoritarianism; net zero |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217301 |
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