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Post-growth planning is a call for focusing on wellbeing and health while staying within the planetary boundaries in a long-term perspective. We observe an increasing academic interest in the connections between post-growth or degrowth and infrastructure planning in academia, and now also in practice in countries such as the Netherlands. Infrastructure providers themselves are publicly exploring, through research and public debate, their role in a possible transition to a post-growth society and how they can use their existing instruments and tools to facilitate this transition. First tentative seeds underline a shifting self-understanding of infrastructure planning. Despite such potentials, “infrastructure studies represent a domain […] significantly uncharted amongst degrowth scholars” (Pansera et al., 2024, p. 1). Post-growth has yet to make its way into the literature and practice of transport infrastructure planning, especially at the city-wide and supra-local level of larger infrastructure networks and their future transformations at large. We recognize this opening window of opportunity for utilizing post-growth planning to discuss and reposition the role of infrastructure providers and planners situated within them.
References
Durrant, D., Lamker, C. W., & Rydin, Y. (2023). The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth. Planning Theory & Practice, 24(2), 287–295. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2198876 (Comment).
Grundel, I., & Magnusson, D. (2023). Planning to grow, planning to rock on – infrastructure management and development in shrinking municipalities. European Planning Studies, 31(6), 1184–1202. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2022.2108311
Little, R. G. (2024). From the Editor. Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy, 5(1), Article jci3.12018, 6–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/jci3.12018 (Critical Perspectives).
Pansera, M., Lloveras, J., & Durrant, D. (2024). The infrastructural conditions of (de-)growth: The case of the internet. Ecological Economics, 215, Article 108001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.108001
Verweij, S., Lamker, C. W., & Groot, B. de. To Transport or not to Transport: Post-Growth Avenues for Transport Infrastructure Planning. Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy (Submitted Manuscript)
| Keywords | Infrastructure; Post-Growth Planning; Transport Planning; Circularity |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
