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Ten principles

As a result of its first stage of structured assessment, which included a qualitative content analysis of 238 document sources, GANE has identified and elaborated ten ecological, social, political economy and holistic principles cutting across 38 economic approaches.

They include:

  1. social–ecological embeddedness and holistic well-being;
  2. interdisciplinarity and complexity thinking;
  3. limits to growth;
  4. limited substitutability of natural capital;
  5. regenerative design;
  6. holistic perspectives of people and values;
  7. equity, equality and justice;
  8. relationality and social enfranchisement;
  9. participation, deliberation and cooperation and
  10. post-capitalism and decolonization.

These approaches are discussed in detail in a publication in Nature Sustainability

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