1. Socially just futures

• Social, intergenerational, and environmental justice
• Income and wealth inequality: strategies for redistribution and sharing
• Addressing colonial and imperial modes of living
• Human rights and degrowth: tensions and convergences
• Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt
• Degrowth perspectives on migration, displacement, and borders
• Addressing social class in ecological economics and degrowth

2. Postgrowth institutions, policy, and governance

• Welfare states, fiscal policy, and taxation
• The role of banks, finance, money, and investments
• Citizen assemblies, economic democracy, and technological democracy
• Businesses and organizations beyond growth
• Geopolitics, (de)militarization, (de)nuclearization, and peace building
• Global alliances for just and sustainable futures
• Governing the commons
• International governance in times of genocide and ecocide
• The role of markets, law, and states in postgrowth societies

3. Systems change: Transitions, transformations, and rupture

• Degrowth imaginaries, concrete utopias, and prefigurative politics
• Political polarization and backlash against green agendas
• The politics of transformation in a capitalist and militarised world
• Social movements, youth protests, climate activism, and defence of land
• Post-capitalist experiments and radical environmental movements
• Arts, artistic ecologies, and eco-social practice
• Direct action for transformative change: Tactics, strategies, ethics
• Innovating teaching, learning, and knowledge sharing
• The spatial dimension: planning and human settlements

4. Production, consumption, and sufficiency

• Social-ecological provisioning systems
• Needs, satisfiers, and sufficiency
• Advertising, social media, and hyperconsumption
• Ethics of consumption, degrowth, and human fulfilment
• Transportation systems and travelling choices
• Communicating degrowth in productivist and consumerist cultures
• Indicators of wealth, health, and wellbeing
• Decent living standards within planetary boundaries
• Uncommodified provisioning, self-sufficiency, and gift economies

5. Technology, work, and care

• Convivial technology: values, design, and practices
• Artificial intelligence, digitalization, and automatization
• Disentangling technology, war industry, and genocide
• The future of work, working time, labour, and care
• Class perspectives on work
• Non-monetary economies from unpaid labour to in-kind social provisioning
• Considering demographic change and age
• Organizing labour for and under degrowth trajectories

6. Global food justice in postgrowth scenarios

• Disentangling power dynamics in industrial agriculture
• Agroecology and alternative systems for food justice
• Land and agrarian transformations
• Relations to place, livelihood, and provisioning
• Blue degrowth and the future of fishing communities
• Urban food security, edible cities, and food deserts

7. Intersectionality in growth and degrowth

• Ecofeminisms, feminist economics, and decolonial feminisms
• Masculinities in growth and degrowth
• Disabilities – rights and agency
• Queer perspectives
• Gender (in)equality and degrowth – opportunities and risks
• Racialization, anti-racist strategies, and decolonisation  
• Whiteness in postgrowth and degrowth
• Class and poverty in intersectionality

8. The diverse values of nature: rights, distribution, and ethics

• Ecological justice, rights of nature, and human–nature relations
• Social metabolism and environmental conflicts
• Integrating plural values of nature in decision-making
• Biodiversity and ecosystem services / nature’s contributions to people
• Indigenous and local knowledge in protecting and restoring values of nature
• Financialization and commodification of nature

9. Climate change, fossil power, and energy transitions

• Frameworks and strategies for climate justice
• Climate offsets and greenwashing
• Decarbonising fossil fuel economies
• Contested energy transitions
• Degrowth scenarios in global climate policy
• Material footprints of the green shift

10. Foundations and frontiers in ecological economics

• Ecological economics: philosophy of science, ontology, and epistemology  
• Decolonizing research and methodologies
• Knowledge, power, and action
• Limits and scarcity in ecological economics and degrowth – ontological divergencies
• Ecological macroeconomics: scrutinizing theory, models, and indicators
• Theoretical foundations for degrowth and postgrowth
• Ecoliteracy and systems views
• Alternative approaches to wellbeing, such as swaraj, buen vivir, vivir sabroso, degrowth, ubuntu, kyosei, eudamonia and sumak kawsay
• Doughnut economics, circular economics, and well-being economy: experiences and controversies